NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8350, 8 December 1892, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(PESS- ASSOCIATION T___-EA3._.J AUCKLAND. December 7. The day generally chosed by the sabuxban trade-men for th* ball holiday is Wednesday. Mr P. Digaan has been elected Chairman of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Letters received at Wangarei state that the New Zealand Prospecting Syndicate, whose object is to obtain investigation of tbe mineral resources of Puhipuhi, nas been registered in London. The annual exhibition at the Academy of Arts was opened to-night at the Choral Hall by hia Excellency the Governor, -who in the course of a brief address spoke in praise of the pictures shown at the Wellington Art Exhibition a few months ago, faying that most beautiful paintings were to be seen. - The exhibition is not strong in the number of pictures, and some of the best are those by Southern artiste. The Rev. L. H. Outram has given six months' notice of his intention to resign his position as incumbent of St. Matthew'a Anglican church. The Board of Education has increased tho salary of each' of their four Inspectors by £50 a year. In the Supreme Court to-day, In Banco, Chas. E. Matthews for practising as a Solicitor without a certificate was adjudged guilty of contempt of Court, and a fine of £25 was inflicted unless the arrears are paid by the. 9th January. A similar application against Chas. E. Madden has been adjourned for a week. NEW PLYMOUTH, December 7. A black whale was stranded yesterday morning on the beach about ten miles south of New Plymouth. It was sixty feet long. GISBORNE, December 7. The Tologa Bay Hotel was totally destroyed by fire this morning. Mr Kirk, the proprietor, estimate-his loss as heavy, as he had just sold to Mr Hill of Lyttelton. The insurances were—Norwich Union, £3QGO, on the building; Phcenix, £300, on the building; £200 on the furniture ; Liverpool, London and Globe, £200, and Alliance, -3200, ou the furniture and effects. At the R.M. Court two proprietors of dressmaking establishments -.vero fined Is and 8s costs for a breach of the Factories Act in not giving their girls a half-holiday ou Saturday. They pleaded that they had given their assistants a whole holiday on Wednesday and the gcrla were willing to work on Saturday. WELLINGTON, December 7. , There is considerable dissatisfaction with the decision of the Resident Magistrate in letting off a man who bit a uonstabie'a thumb with a small fine and four days' imprisonment. It appears that the unfortunate policeman may have to have his thumb amputated, and meanwhile he lain great pain. One paper pertaaetttiy asks how the p-lice cfen -be expected to inter!ere in street rows -when the Bench shelters offenders of this clasa. Mr E. Lawrence, Secretary oi theßoot;makera' Union, died to-day after a brief illness. . The Government have under consideration a soheme for a more complete amalgamation of the Justice and 'Native Departments than the partial combination which was effected when the Hon. "Mr Cadman took the portfolio of Justice, The details will probably be settled wihen Mr Cadman .returns from the South. A pen of ten Lincoln ram hoggets exhibited at Wellington A. and E. tihow by Mr H. JdcHardy, of Hawke's Bay, and which was awarded Ist prize, has been-sold to North Island breeders for 4QQ guineas. The fleeces taken lrom -the animals were of unusual weight, turning the .scales at irom 291b to 34ib each. Tliree Lincoln .rams exhibited at the Show by Mr W. Wilsan, of Whenaukura, have been disposed x*f, and brought £30 to £_s.each. . * GREYMOUTH, December 7. A meeting x>f the Midland Railway League was held to-ughfe, and discussed the position. The Mayor occupied the ; chair. It was resolved that the Mayor be instructed to telegraph to the .Minister -of Works, request-ing particulars ,of the last t*o sets of -proposals oi the Company,,and oa.reeeiptoF these to call a public .meeting to consider the propewak*. The generally expressed opinion was tbat both proposals were fair and good for the colony. DUNEDIN, 'December 7. One hundred and twenty-five candidates' have entered 'for the' matriculation examination, including fifty-four .ladies, seventeen for University junior scholarships, and twenty-one for the medical preliminary pass.' ,