NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2248, 17 June 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PBBBB ASSOCIATION. 3 AUCKLAND, June 17. « The Public Library. 1 The City Oounc’’, by a majority of five to four, resolved to open the free Public Library on Sundays, between the hours of two and six in the afternoon and seven and ten at night. The City Solicitors. Messrs Bussell and Devore, the city solicitors, have resigned in consequence of a roso- | lution of the legal committee of the Council , to the effect that they could not consistently act for the Council and Harbor Board. ShippingThe barque Cam»'la arrived to-day, 122 days from London; also the Loch Doon, which left on the 14th March. An apprentice named John Whyles, sixteen years old, was washed overboard from the Looh Doon and drowned. Football. The Auckland footballers, at a meeting, resolved to adopt the suggestions of the Wellington Club for the formation of an intercolonial team. A committee was appointed to carry out the proposal. WELLINGTON June 17. RevokedThe appointment of three agents under the Consolidated Stock Act, 1877, has been revoked. Small-Fox-In consequence of small-pox in Sydney the Government have, after considering on official telegram from the Government of South Wales, resolved to proclaim the city of Sydney and the harbor of Port Jackson an infected place. DUNEDIN, June 17. The Wool Shed Fire. Mr Bitching estimates his loss by the wool shed fire at £3CDO. 75,000 rabbit skins, 400 sacks of wheat, 100 ditto oats and, 150 bales of wool were destroyed.