NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9670, 8 March 1897, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRBSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, March 6. In the Native Appellate Court, held at Rotorua lately by Judges Edgar and Johnson, a former decision in the case of the succession to the interest in Rotomahana, Parekarangi, No. 6 block, was reversed. This was a case in Pare Tanira, a Native woman, appealed against an order made in favour of the next of kin, and claimed the land in question under a will made in her favour. An order was made in favour of the appellant. The case turned on the word "Taonga" (property) in the will, which, in this instance, was held to apply to land. NAPIER, March 6. Informations have been laid by the Factory Inspector against the Manager of the Bank of New Zealand for keeping the employees at work after houre and obstructing the entrance of the Inspector. WELLINGTON, March 6. Nat Hall, formerly a well-known bicyclist in Christchurch, has been committed for trial for stealing a bicycle sent to him by Boyd and Son, of Christchurch, as agent. Hall pawned aud afterwards sold it.

The criminal calendar for Monday contains fourteen charges against sixteen prisoners. At the inquest on Norman McKay, who was killed by a boiler explosion at a sawmill at Waikanae, a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. The boiler was inspected yesterday by Mr Duncan, Inspector of Machinery, who found that the cause of the accident was shortness of water. The second and third rings of the flue collapsed through over-heating, but the ends of the boiler shell and the remainder of the flue were in first-class order.

The Nelson Star has ceased publication. Mr A. D. Wilkinson, M.A., of the Wellington College staff, has received news from England that he has passed the second section of the LL.B. degree, and Mr Thos. Brodie, of the same institution, has passed the first section of the B.A. degree. iJoth gentlemen are natives of the colony, and were educated in the Otago University. NELSON, March 7.

Bishop Grimes, of Chrisfcchurch, arrived last night, and to-day consecrated and opened the new church of Saints Peter and Paul, built at Waimea We3t by money left by the late Mr Redwood, father of the Archbishop. The Bishop preached a powerful sermon. REEFTON, March 6. S. Monteith, brewer, was fined £52 and costs for breaches of the Beer Duty Act, and the brewery, with stock, &c, forfeited. The Collector of Customs agreed to recommend the remission of the forfeiture.

The pressure of business is very great, chiefly in connection with the Warden's Court, and the recent rearrangement, by which two Wardens are expected to attend to the business of the whole Coast, causes general inconvenience and complaint.