NEW ZEALAND.
{PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND. March 5. Attention is being dra *n ti> the fact that from time to time complaints are made by British mastete and owners trading between the Australian colonies and New Zealand of the. unfair competition of foreign craft v/ith them in the carrying trade. Foreign vessels running from Kaipara and elsew here to Australia conveying timber are end to carry excessive deck loads in addition to the full freighting under hate acs, and this practice, besides being risky, is also complained of as unfair to British vessels, which most have the PlimsolTs mark. Dr. Forbes* of 'i'auranga, has been appointed Medical Oifioer at Tongn by the Government;., Tue Auckland 'fiacing Club have decided n<idly to enforce Bole No. 20, which .prohibits o fraers, trainers and jockeys from taking part at unregistered trotting or pony race meetings. A nine-roomed house at Parerost, owned and occupied by Samuel Charlton, was burnt this morniag. The building was insured lor £250 in the Norwich Union office.
Mi 33 Frances Otic Chew, the Auckland musician who .das obtained a violin scholarship at tin* Royal College ol Music, is the youngest daughter of the Key. J. Chew, pastor of the Ueresford street Congregational Chuiich. Sue is sixteen years old, 'the scholarship entitles her to iree tuition oi&Qthrtie years, together with maiatenatibe ami pocket money.
In answer to enquiries at Government House, it was stated that there is no truth in the report .Appearing in to-day's cable message that I<ordOnslow would probably succeed Iprd Hopetoun as Victorian Governor. ;
The *esa|h, o £ an examination for two entrance extyiiiitions in music, given by the Amateur Opera Club to University College, is tha L Miss Alice Maud Harding win 3 the firat prize with a fraction, over 90 per cent, of tlie maximam marks, Miss F. Harper coming second with 86 per cent. There were eighteen candidates. WANGANI'I, March 5. .. The wreckage found on the beach at Mania tarns. out to be the remains of punte and boats washed out of the Wanganui Eiver lby the flood three weeks ago. The Union Boat Club's junior crew left for Wellington to day for the regatta. The same Club's > Maiden crew will leave by the mid-day train, to-morrow. The Wanganui Bowing Club'e Maidens will also go by the same train. * ■WELLINGTON, March 5. Two informations have been laid by the direction of the Crown Prosecutor against Mr Coleman Phillips, of Dry Btver Station, Wairarapa, one charging him with aiding and abetting certain persons in committing breaches of the Land Act, and the second-with inciting such persons to commit sueb bteaoherj. Compassionate allowance of .£OOO is to be given to the widow of the late Mr Whitefoord, E.M. a<; Kaiapoi. In the Supreme Court in chambers today, Mr Gray, solicitor for the mortgagors, obtained an injunction restraining the Registrar from proceeding with the sale of the Kaingawa estate (11,000 acres), Chatham Islands,, which was to hare been sold to day. There are 196 entries for the amateur athletic aud oycling sports on March 14cn. HOKITIKA, March 5. The Charles Edward was floated off the bank and steamed up to the wharf this morning. Tlae Kennedy will probably come otf to-morrow, the weather nowmoderating. IHVEBCABGILL, March 5. At a meeting of the Seaward Bu3h Bailway Committee to day a deputation was appointed to interview the Hon. J. McKenzie on the subject of extending the railway to Mataura river.
NEW ZEALAND.
Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7804, 6 March 1891, Page 5
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