NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2578, 12 July 1882, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

ImSB PBHSS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, July 11. In the Supreme Court James it iwards, for breaking and entering the house of David Archibald at Whau, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. True bills were found •gainst Pakara and Eplha for shooting with intent; Emanuel Boderigue, felony ; and Henry Howard Lswis, ‘forging and uttering. No bills were found in the oases of David Johnston, for horse stealing ; Henry Lewie, forcing an endorsement. WELLINGTON, July 11. The casual laborers working on Queen’s Wharf struck this morning, demanding an -extra shilling per day. The Harbor Board declined to accede to their request, and held • meeting, when it was decided to employ twelve permanent hands at 42s par week, and also to procure extra laborers as required at the rate of Is per hoar. Most of Che men resumed work this afternoon. WEBTPOBT, July 11. The men who have been prospecting the Golding Star quartz lease at Mohikinni, returned to Westport this morning, bringing a large quantity of fine specimens showing gold thickly, There are reefs : one of 2ft. HOKITIKA, July 11. The Waipara was successfully launched this evening, and has snetained no damage. Captain Bignell is progressing favorably. A preliminary meeting was held here this -evening to consider the advisability of introducing the electric light. An influential committee was appointed to ascertain the cost and all information connected with the onder- : Salting, DUNEDIN, July 11. *.= Mrs Bernard Moore gave her first lecture on nursing this afternoon to an audience of eighty ladles. Telephonic communication between Port Chalmers and Dunedin is now established. There are 103 subscribers now to the Dunedin exchange. The electric light experiment at Boss and Glendininfe’d woollen mills, Eoalyn, is eminently successful. There are nine lamps in the main building, and one in the finishing zoom, and it is proposed to light the smaller zooms with Swan’s incandescent lamps. The lamps used are the “ Joel,” and the power is supplied by one of Siemen’s D 2 dynamo machines, driven from the main shaft. Fivehorse power is required for the ten lamps, und the machine is driven at the rate of 820 revolution* a minute. The light has no glare, is steady ana infid, and casts no deep shadows. An estimate of its cost shows thin to be less than one-seventh that of gas at the current rate in Dunedin, and it is calculated that the .JlTisg fffeotgd will is six months pay the -entire cost of the plant. The Presbyterian congregation at Port Chalmers has accepted a tender for a new church at a cost of £4965, It will seat 700 persons. A land owner in Palmerston district was ige-day fined £lO for neglecting to take efficient steps to destroy rabbits as required by the Act. At the Crown land sale to-day, four runs passed in at the February sales were offered. Two in Wakatipn diatriot found no bidders. Hun 388, of 14,000 acres, on Oreti river. Southland, near Mavora Lake, the upset of which was £SO per annum, was bought by Mr Baird at £lB5 rental. Bun 476, of 6000 iaoree, upset £lO per annum, situated between Dusky Bound and Wet Jacket Arm, was sold to Wm. Dooherty at the upset. At Palmerston to-day John Munro, a .Former, was proceeded against for selling Igama to Robert Smith, a game dealer, in Dunedin. The evidence showed that Monro hod forwarded a box to Smith by rail containing nine bares and one pheasant. Smith, however, swore that the game was sent to Mm as a present, and the information was ’withdrawn, the prosecuting counsel commenting on Smith’s action in keeping this fact from the police when asked. The City Council to-night adopted the gas committee’s recommendations to give Mr Genever, gas engineer, three months’ notice, by six votes to five, against an amendment to refer the matter back to committee. INVERCARGILL, July 11. The tramway directors have decided to discontinue running oars on Sundays. Mr :mas Arthur, late station master here, goes to Ashburton in place of Mr PilkIngton.