NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8071, 14 January 1892, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND.

[FRES3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.]

AUCKLAND, January 13. The newly appointed conductor of the Auckland Orchestral Union, Mr Arthur Towsey, arrived from Dunedin to-day. The paroy who propose to travel over the Stratford route are to leave on Monday morning next, going by train to Te Kuiti then on horseback to the Ohura Valley, walking thence forty or fifty miles on the track for Stratford.

NEW PLYMOUTH, January 13.

At the Harbour Board meeting this morning, a letter from the Marine Department was read, drawing attention to the manner the passengers were landed from steamers calling at this port. The Chairman of the Harbour Board, in reply, states that, had the dredge been here in October, as promised, by this time the channel would have been cleared and as large tonnage would then have been able to have come along ide the wharf, there wonld have been no nece nity for the boating service complained of. WELi.-NCiTON, January 13. -A man named Jomi Porterman was killed ftt Eketahuna to-day through a log rolling on him.

Mr W. H. Hardwick, organist of-St. Mark's Church, died this afternoon. He had been ailing for some time from spinal disease.

The yachts Mascotte and Onawe, from Lyttelton, arrived at the Heads last night, and were towed in by the Mana. The mortality in Wellington last year •was 109 more than in 1890, the deaths being 692 against 483. The excess of births over deaths was 780, but the births showed an' increase, of only 17 on the previous year. In consequence of the statement that the Labour Bureau had thrown bo many people on the Benevolent Trustees as to be the principal cause of the overdraft, amounting to £500 or £600, Mr Tregear wrote asking for particulars, with an account of the* expense incurred. The Chairman declined to overhaul the books out of curiosity, but said he would furnish details if the Government wtaited to pay back the money and would keep the names secret. The Trustees agreed that the names should not be divulged. The Chairman cited to the ; Board a number of cases where the Trustees had to support the wives of men on the JPabiatua relief works. DUNEDIN, January 13. The City Tramways report shows the year's receipts to be £19,223, leaving a net profit of £2233, but this does not pay the year's interest. The number of passengers;; carried was 2,722,073, being more than half fe million less than the previous year.