NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8481, 12 May 1893, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(FRE33 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.)

AUCKLAND, May 11. Seven stowaways were found on board the steamer Star of Victoria on the voyage from Sydney to Auckland. The ship's authorities compelled them to work and then allowed thorn to leave when the vessel arrived here. Before the Star of Victoria left Sydney seven other stowaways were discovered and sent ashore.

This morning Mr TIIO3. Thompson, M.H.R., one of the Commissioners in the Ell enquiry, left by the Mahinapua on hie way to Christchurch, where the Commission meets on the 17th.

At the Dargaville R.M. Court yesterday the manager of the Kopuru sawmill, Smith, was fined £4 aad costs for having employed a number of boya under eighteea in the mill on Good Friday. Notice of appeal was given. A conference of representatives of municipal bodies is proposed to consider the question of appointing an expert to inspect meat used for human foo^. Bishop Cowie ha 3 been re elected unopposed a member of the Auckland University College Council to represent the General Assembly. Nicholson, who was} charged with the " m&iisknghter of Richard Forgie in the recent prize-fight, and the other defendants charged with aiding and abetting, have been committed for trial. NELSON, May 11. S. J. Reeves was charged at the Police Court this morning with having made a falsa statement in the statement of receipts and expenditure filed in respect of the Extended Wakatu Gold Mining Company. The auditors' report showed a deficiency •of ±5431 18s Id. The prisoner wa3 remanded for a week. WELLINGTON, May 11. Mr Cook, district surveyor, wili be sent to Stratford in connection with the Trunk Railway exploration. The Wellington Amateur Athletic Club have abandoned their sports owing to the lateness of the season. DUNEDIN, May 11. At the annual meeting of the Trustees, Executors and Agency Company, the report stated that the profit for the year was £1100, to which had to be added £891 brought forward. The Directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent., leaving £1291, less , manager's commission on the net profit, to be carried forward. The report was adopted, and Messrs P. C. Neill and E. J. Speiice were re-elected Directors. The police have not yet succeeded in capturing W. Freeman Kitchen, although he had only a very few hours start of them. It is understood that a more sei-ious charge than that of wife desertion ia likely to be laid.

The Rev. Dr. Stuart, who has been again ill, is now resovering, but strict rest has been enjoined. At a meeting of the creditors of the man named Pickworth, the unusual step was taken of sending a man to search his house at Palmerston. While he was in Dunedin a sum of £8 was found secreted. On the bankrupt's own showing he had in his possession immediately before filing £43, while his debts amounted to only £33.

Dr. Lamb writes to the Press that two young men just arrived from Melbourne, suffering from the measles, were refused admission into the Hospital, and had to walk about the streets on a stormy night like Monday till a good Samaritan found them lodgings.