NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8591, 19 September 1893, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRK3S ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.} AUCKLAND, September 18. Te Hauranga has been committed ab Port Albert for horse stealing. A young man, Richard Miller, in a football match broke his collar boue.

In the rifle match between ex-officers of Volunteers and ten on the active list the exofficers won by 55 points.

A Bowling Club has been started at Ponsonby, commencing with fifty members.

Councillor Atkin contests the Mayoralty against all comers. At a meeting of the University Council, on the motion of Miss Edgar, Professor Aldis' engagement was extended for six months, Sir M. o*Rorke being the only dissentient. Dr. McKellar declined to vote.

At the meeting of the Charitable Aid Board a letter was read from Inspector Hickson, who desired to have nine children placed in the Industrial School through the neglect of parents. The Chairman said the Board were paying £1000 a year for maintenance of such children. The Board could not stand the increasing expenditure, which should be borne by the Consolidated revenue. Fresh legislation was necessary to punish parents who shunted their children on the Board. The Board decided to oppose .the action of the Inspector. In the Supreme Court on the application for the order of discharge of John Buchanan, merchant, no one appeared to oppose the discharge, but his Honour said the discharge would be suspended for twelve months. The Official Assignee's reporb stated thab the bankrupt bad been unwarrantably sanguine iv business, and ought to have known that his prospects of success were hopeless against the keen competition and high rates of interest.

NAPIER, September ia

Baxter, of the -a. Result, has been fined £1 and costs, for having in his possession flounders and soles less than nine inches in length. The information was laid under the Act designed to prevent the supply of fish being reduced owing to the young fish being destroyed. The criminal calendar at the Supreme Court to-morrow is nob very heavy, comprising nine charges against six prisoners. The list includes two charges against a bankrupt for breaches of the Act. and one bigamy casein 1876 Thomas Smith married Bridget Callaghan at Oamaru, and in 1888 married Jane Gardiner at Waipawa. One of Hawke's Bay's oldest settlers, Mr Hutton Irpnbeck, of Petane, is dead. The deceased has been engaged iv pastoral pursuits in this district for over thirty-three years. WELLINGTON, September 18. The sanitation loan coat £1 8s 6d per cent, to float, which, according to a return presented to the Council, is a higher percentage by a few pence than any loan except that of 1879. The rate for this was £1 9s 4d per cent. Mr Levin's grave was visited to-day by hundreds of people. The floral emblems were piled round the grave, and an awning erected to preserve them as long as possible. The Trades Council and Working Men's Club both scut letters of condolence to Mrs Levin; 525 members oi the latter walked iv the funeral processioti. Several fires, which the police look upon as inceutliary, have occurred at the Marine Retreat Hotel, Petone, lately, even after a mau was appointed to look after the place. The Melrose Club won the Junior Cap by a try to nothing against Poneke. The two Clubs haU previously played a drawn game.

DUNEDIN, September 18.

A Committee of the Bowling Association will report to the meeting ou the 3rd that the Association be continued under amended rules aud regulations. One of the rules provides that tournaments shall not be held oftener than ouce iv two years; another provides that a Committee of players in the place where the tournament is held shall draw up a programme and shall have full and sole charge iv carrying it out. The Sew Hoy return for the week is 89 ounces of retorted gold. The Mayor telegraphed to the Premier that he had been waited oa by over 100 unemployed, all able-bodied aud anxious for work. As a large number of them are in urgent need he asks that something be done to relieve them.