NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6868, 5 March 1883, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

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AUCKLAND. Mabck 3. The barns cad stacks belonging to John Johns,»settler at Mangoi, were burnt jesterday, entailing a loss of £260, They were uainsured. - The survey of Kawhia township is now completed* The whole of the ovidoßce in connection with the charge# preferred by the girl Wetherall against Mr G. P. Hogan, master of the Industrial Home, has now beontokeu and submitted to accused. lie will submit a statement, and the whole of the papers will then bs forwarded to the authorities at Well* ington. A man named Walter Hill called at the police station and asked if ho might be recognised and treated os a deserter from H.M.3. Rosario, having left that vessel in Queensland in 1872, He desired to be taken into the sorvice once more. The commander of H.M. Lark has been communicated with, in order to ascertain if he wilt take Hill, who is only 31 years of age, on board his vessel. At the Theatre Eoyal Madame Simcnsea bad a feinting fit just after a superb rendering of the leading solo In the “Hermit's Sell,” feed the performance was abruptly doted. As the outcome of the dispute between the Boilway mad X-*o»tal Departments at Pukokobe station, Mr A. V, M'Doneld, railway manager, has been horned in effigy by*tbe residents of Pukekclie*,; , , , An utfbfcupied house at Wade has been burned down. It is believed to bo on act of incendiarism. It was only insured for £6O. WANGANUI, Mauox 8. Btopbeh Arisen, a sailor oh- board the sobooßWf Annie Hill, was committed for trial to-day formatting base coin in the shape of a HauoveriifS. sovereign, WELLINGTON, MAttpx S. The Him W. Bollestou is expected to return to Wellington yia Nopier overland in a A question of considerable importance to licensed Victuallers was raised at the Assessmeat Court to-day os to whether the City Council had any right to asses# trade profits. Bis Worship reserved bis decision. DUNEDIN. Mabox 3. The Govwnor visited Port Chalmers to-day and was enthusiastically received* After inspecting the deck site, present dock. Ac.,

he woe entertained at luncheon* end took occasion again to Rfg* ®a the harbour aulhoritte* the neoeeeity of improving the bar and providing for to arrival of large •hip# and etiamere. He raidi— 1 “I would moit uuqueifclofiably ««« unequivoeaUy reeomueod that henceforth tko expenditure upon work* for thie eplondid harbour ehofttd bo devoted to the deepening of the bar at the entrance and of the ohannaet to Fort Obolmer* j to tho construetienof a dock, end toward* providing the neoeiiaty laoilitle* for the largest tbips tbit will oomo to Fort Ohaloion. The only fear I should have when you are undertaking inch works would bo that you might hot realise the necessity of providing for largo ibipe. Henceforth I believe that large ocean •teamen, or at alt event* largo ocean ship*, will be the main carrying yeitele of the world, and there will bew tendency lor (hem to make quick tripe, to toko In cargo rapidly, and to go off a* fiat a* they can, rather than a number of email ihipe, at wo need formerly to have lying a long time alongside the wharvei." On Monday Hi* Excellency procoeds to Invercargill, receiving addressee from tho Corporation! of Milton, Balolntha and Dore t» route. He return* vi& Lawrence, but time will not permit of a visit being paid to the Lakes district a* was originally intended. :

The Trades and Labour Council intend organising a series of public meeting* throughout the Colony during the Parliamentary session with the object of arousing public interest in the Eight Hours, Working Men’*' Lien, and Bradshaw's Act Amendment Bills, March 4.

The Committee of tho Benevolent Institute, in their annual report to subscribers, say s—" One grievous and crying evil is that of wife-desertion, which year after year is sadly on the increase j in . fact, if legislation of a deterrent nature is not brought to betr on this growing crime, serious result* to the tax-paying public must ensue. It is quite enough for the benevolent to assist incases of pure. misfortune, but to be called upon to support the families of tho clan roferrodto is more than can be reasonably borne." No less than 79 deserted wives, with 276 children, wore relieved during the year. Thera were two alarms of fire this morning, one at 580 the other at 9 o’clock. In the first case an unoccupied shop in George street North, next the residence of Mr X. Bracken, M.H.8., was burnt down, and Mr Bracken's house was slightly damaged. In the second case some passer by seeing the glass in an annunciator broken, could not resist (he temptation of giving the Brigade another outing. ■

BLUFF, Mabch 3. Two English men-of-war, tie E* pickle, six guru, and Diamond; fourteei guns, passed through the Straits this afternoon bound to the eastward. [yaosi ouß own coekkjpokdbhx.l WELLINGTON, Maboh 8. At a meeting of the Willingten Early Olosing Association, hold last evening, Mr Hutomson, presided. He promised to afford the movement every assistance in bis power as a means of educatirg the public to the half-holiday movement. The Association resolved to hold a concert at en early date; to be interspersed with addresses on the subject by influential citizens. : The Wellington Teachers’ Astociation held a meeting this morning, when Hr Young, the master of the Terrace school, was elected a delegate to the General Council of the New Zealand Educational Imtitutc, Two notices of motion were tabled for discussion at the next meeting, viz., (1) That the roles be assimilated to the rales of the Canterbury, Otago; and other Association! in the Colony, and that pupil-teachers be almitted as members of the Association, (2) That a protest, be sent to the Inspector-General of Schools' against the retention on tbe roll of teachers and of the names of inen who have disgraced' their profession. «