NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6536, 7 February 1882, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

fp» Pmm Asioouwoh.] AUOKLAHD, Fib. 6. rrhe Auckland Gas Company have deolared increased to 20 percent, making the •JTm l est for cash 8i per thousand *eat. P % the half-yearly meeting of the Bay of Tdands Goal Company, a &"*»»* «* &• i«d of 10 per cent. Mr Firth and Dr rSpU ware re-elected Director*. At the distribution of theAuoklandi College ZL Sohool prim, SirG.M. CBorke the £L. The new head master, Mr Bame. ?nd the Premier addressed the pupils. The Chairman said he had just been mformed by ♦hTPremier that the vote of «160 for higher Vacation in Auckland had not been allowed m kDW, but had been placed in the hands of Sowl who would see it properly expended, WELLINGTON, Fib. 6. Mr Hunt has arriTed in Wellington from «ii witn the view of instituting legal proLJdißß* against Sir Arthur Gordon, as High Smmissioner of the Western Pacific, for illegal arrest Mr Henry Olapcctt has been appointed General Lecturer of the Colony to the Government Insurance Department. It is intended that he shall revise and push the Indoitrial branch of the business. An inquest was held to-day into the origin of the recent fire in Hunter street. The evidence proved nothing beyond the fact that! the gatfitter had examined the gaa meter during the day, and that he had used a match in hii examination. The jury returned a verdict" that the fire originated in the meter box, either from the meter or the pipes, but that there was no evidence to show how it i * nit * d " NBLSON, Jib. 6. Whilst puttingnew blades to the propeller of the iiteamer Wanaka on Saturday aftersoon, Chief Engineer B. M*Gill got his hand crushed. So had previously lost two fingers of the same hand by an accident, but hopes tre entertained that the thumb will be WVed " GBHYMOUTH,Feb.6. The yield of retorted gold from the Golden ]foece Extended Quartz Mining Company, limited, for the crushing of 160 tons of quartz, just completed, was 240 ounces 6 dwt. litis was a trial crushing from the recently discovered reef at the lowest level. [FEOH ottb own oobbespokdbht.] DUNEDIF, Vmb. 6. At an early hour this morning it was found that the barque Manx Queen, lying at the pier, Port Chalmers, was on fire. She was loaded with wheat and flour for shipment to Glasgow, as an experiment to open a market for Colonial produce there. Between thirty and forty tons of flour were damaged before the fire was got tinder, and most of the cargo may have to be discharged to ascertain if farther damage is done. The fire originated in a box containing clothing, and though the lid was completely burnt away, the sides and bottom were intact. The vessel waa to have sailed on Saturday.