NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8581, 7 September 1893, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, September 6. ■ Harold Cowper aged five, belonging to. tho Mount Eden district, reported as missiug to-day, was stated to-night to have been found drowned, in a tank. He is supposed to have accidentally fallen in. ! A baby was found exposed on the verandah of a residence in Newton road at 8.30 to-nieht. It was taken in, and is now in the hands of the police. Tho Samoa Weekly Herald has changed hands ; the new proprietor is Mr Denvers, Clerk of the Supreme Court. He will personally edit and conduct the journal. Sir George Grey's health is greatly improved : be takes walking exercise daily. Matthews' sawmill at Tepopuru, Kaipara, has been burned down. The iusurance is £1000 in the New Zealand office. The damage is estimated at £3000. The Auckland Women's Franchise League intend running two lady candidates at the Education Board elections. A robbery of £40 worth of tobacco and cigars took place hist night at H. Ellison's, tobacconists, Grey street. The place was entered by skeleton keys. This is the third robbery at tobacco shops in a few weeks. It is believed the spoil has been sold iv the city. The Judge in the Supreme Court granted the application by the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and appointed Mr Battley, general manager, provisional liquidator in the colony for the Company. The appointment is understood to be purely formal, and enables deeds to be executed . and confers other requisite power 3on the liquidator for the promotion of the business and assets of the Company, pending its re-construction. WELLINGTON, September 6. Sir James Hector, who lately visited the Cheviot estate to report on a supposed seam . of coal discovered it tc be driftwood. He j believes, however, that there are indications i of coal on the estate, and he intends to return and conduct a more extended investigation. DUNEDIN, September 6. At a meeting of the Globe Newspaper Company it was decided to go into liquidation.