NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2633, 14 September 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PBBSS ASBOOT4.TIOH.] AUOKLAND, September 13. Tonight two men, while in a state of intoxication, pulled off in a dingy to a outter. The dingy oapsized, and the men were drowned. The water police heard their cries, but they sank before aid could reach them. One was an old identity named Jack Woods, and the other was a wooden-legged man, name unknown.

Dr. Goldsbro, coroner, it is understood, sends his portion of the contents of the stomaoh and intestines of the deceased Mrs Cleaver to Mr Skey, Government analyst, Wellington, for exhaustive analysis. John Gordon was committed for trial for unlawfully assaulting his wife. At a meeting of shareholders in the Coffee Palace Company, Mr Newman presiding, the chairman announoed that the requisite number of shares had not been obtained to enable the directors to oomply with the proposition oarried last meeting. He moved that the Coffee Palace Company be wound up, and the directors empowered to deal with the property. The motion was earned without opposition. The outter Sunderland reports that a seaman, Wm. Boatwright, was missed on the passage from the Thames. He is believed to have fallen overboard at nig'it. He leaves a widow.

The orew of the MoLaren are reported to have landed safely on Mercury Island. A number of daring household robberies in the day time were perpetrated this week. On Sunday, IT. Worrell's, Mount Albert, about £l2 in money; Mo..day, Rev. O. Garter, Ponsonby, £l6 worth of jewellery and money; Tuesday, J. M. Hailett, Grafton road, £3O, jewellery and effects. The police have no dues. A tort ot Flummer scare has revived. WANGANUI, September 13. Arrangements have been made by the Wanganui Football Olub for a match with the Sydney team at Wellington on Monday next; also, for a match with the Wellington Olub on the following day. The Wanganui team will include representatives from Fatea, H&loombe, and Falmerston. JWELLINGTON, September 13. Messrs Edward Fearee and John Duthie, of Wellington, have consented to act as a Board of Advice for the Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand. TIMARU, September 13. Mrs Ryan, re-arrested yesterday, was charged to-day with cattle stealing, but the case was dismissed. It is understood the police have not yet done with her, and that a third oriminal oharge is pending. Great interest is being manifested in the first election of Borough Councillors under the ward system, which takes place timorrow.

DUNEDIN, September 13. At the Supreme Court to-day in laneo Judge Williams gave judgment against Massey, the late Town Olerk, who oalled upon the City Council to show cause why they should not pay him £3OO odd, salary due sines his discharge, which he alleged had been carried at an informal meeting. Costs were also given against him. A man named Grant, who had been caught at the trout pond at the Botanical Gardens, was fined to-day for trespassing in the gardens after hours, which was the only form in whioh he could be proseouted. Mr James Prendergast, Acting-Governor, has forwarded a contribution of £5 in aid of the lad Thomas Webb, who had both legs amputated, as the result of frost bites sustained while lost in the snow. The Licensed Victuallers' Association today resolved to allow meetings in future to be open to the Press. In the now celebrated Vinoent County Chairmanship case, in which suooeoiive councillors have usurped the chair, a writ of quo warranto was obtained to-day against the present occupant, Councillor McGinnis. The applying oounsel said he had obtained the position by simply declaring himself ohairman and silencing the opposition. Mr E. R. Smith has been appointed local secretary for the New Zealand Rifle Association meeting in Dnnedin.