NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8717, 13 February 1894, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRESS TET.EGRAJHS.II . Auckland, February 12. " Toh'n'Bfotli, alias John Richard Considine, alias Guidderslieve, alias James Thompson, late of Auckland, was committed for trial on a charge of burglary on the premises of Sarjent, jeweller, of Cambridge, and the robbery of goods of the value of £52. NEW PLYMOUTH, February 12. Mr Richd. Rundle, pioneer settler, died on Saturday night in his eighty-eighth year. He built the railway bridge over the Wanganui river at Aramoho, built the first wooden store erected mv New Plymouth in 1841, 'and: moat of the bridges in thia district. One hundred and seventy-seven tons of butter were exported to England during the last four weeks. WELLINGTON, February 12. Mr J. W. Booth has been elected to represent Wairarapa on the Wellington Harbour Board. Those elected to-day to represent the Wellington ratepayers on the Board are Messrs J. Jack and J. Pether ck. A proclamation is gazetted further formally proroguing Parliament until 17th May. The Hon. J. G. Ward, PostmasterGeneral, left for the South this evening, to meet the Australian delegates to the Postal Conference. He expects to return here at the end of the month. The shipping in the harbour to-day represented upwards of 40,000 tons, including the four steamers Gothic, Perthshire, Waikato, and Ruahine, which are four of the largest vessels trading iv Australian waters. The Kilbirnie (Suburban) School Committee and the Education Board have quarrelled about the appointmerA, of a teacher, and the whole Committee have resigned on the ground that they can be of no service to the district and do not wish to expose themselves to further discourtesy from the Board. DUNEDIN, February 12. A volunteer encampment is to be held at Easter at Tahuna Park, near the city, when it is understood the Oamaru and Southland Companies will attend. Mr McNaught, one of the New' Australia Settlement party, is in Dunedin and intends lecturing throughout the colony on the settlement.