NEW ZEALAND.
[Pes Pbsss Assocxatiox.] AUCKLAND, Mabch 7. The Auckland Sunday School Union hare decided to hold another children's Industrial Exhibition. In the carbine match, tea competitor! aside, between B Battery ot Artillery, Dunedin, A Battery, Auckland, and STarels, Auckland, the scores ware .-—Auckland Battery, 634 i Auckland Naval*, 685. The relations between Dr M'.KeUar and the nurses and patients' at th* hospital are of an unsatisfactory character. Serious com plaints are made against the factor by several female nurses and also by the head nurses and matron, all of whom are understood to be about to resign. There are also complaint* about tbe treatment of patients. The Committee intend investigating. waiSioxos, Mabch 7. The weight* of the Wellington erew who compete against Canterbury in the feur-oer outrigger contest on March 18 average lOst 81b j tbe average of the Southern men » stated to belOst. • The date on which To WhiU and Tohu will be released has not yet been definitely settled, but it is understood that it will take pltvce in a day or two. One of the Govern* meat steamer* will be oommieaioned to call at Kelson to convey them to Taranaki. Their release will be unconditional. A young Katins man named T*puni, aged 25, attempted to commit suicide at Petone last night in a novel manner. He fastened a rope round his neck with a loop, and the other end he fastened to Ms foot. He then endeavoured to tighten tbe rope round his nook by a series of jerks with bis foot. Hie brother entered tbe room and out the rope. Tepuni was arretted and committed to tbe Asylum, to which institution another brother was committed a day or two ago, Detective Chrystai to-night arrested a middle-aged man, James Movies, on a charge of having committed an mdcoant assault at Timaru on a child of three years, DUHIDDf, Hasck 7. At Arrowtown a young nan named Boole* was killed to day by falling from a dray. The election of member* of the Education Board resulted aa follows:—Messrs Clark and Fergus have been re-elected, and Mr M'Kenme is now member in place of Mr Fulton, resigned. The Governor on Friday is to receive aa address from the Chinee* residents in Dunedin. Mr John Hialop, Secretary to tbe Kduoation Department, is forwarding from Home to Dunedin Corporation a portrait in oils of Dr William Chambers in hie official robes as Lord Provoet of JBdinburgh. Ths Land Board to-day decided to re-offer at an early data ths runs and pastoral deferred land pawed in at raeeat sales. The term of leases of ths mas will be extended.
A* y«tat4t?*• «Mttßt «f Ow Baambafe Imtftut*, AreM—ooa Idwwd*. afMtkuu with ngMfd to U» qoMtioe of nanrnj hntnwd% •ofgertMl tfakt Sir Dillon B*U An!* b# hM
to bring the matter before the CoW;.r Institute, with a view to urging the Hot* Government to iift*e »n Act renderi" possible the trrett in other 0«io r ,i M If t Z.f offender*, ca
'lhe New Z**bnd Cni«r»ity S» n %t« }•». decided to BJ*«i in Heiecn, -vn 'tjj, j!*f Wedneeday in February next y?» r . ' " 'Jhe Bsr A, 0. CtUie*. who 5 -tUed h-»re *O«9 month* ago, ha« nersr yet a meeting of the loe»l Frtebytery. To-diV at its meeting 1 , the Oierk »s* imvueted »<j make enquiriee regarding hi» ab«*uc^.
ISTfBOABOILL, The OoT«rsor tbi* morfti;; Z the Bluff where the Corpora* j,, ri pr«,« B t«j sddre**, ia which Hit Kicciisntj', wae eftlied to the value and impor»*rce of tr» hariMJur a* an OKtiet for the prtlu-e of t£» diitriot, a* *S«o horn ite a* » eoaiing etatbn. la r*piy Sir Williaa, JetToi* mid:—"l bare almdy nnn loase* thing of the riehow of the coantrj (o which the waff form* tb* nator&i outift, and l'&ai llioet ftfixioae now to examine the retail* of a harbour which mut be of »uch »»*t asd tn«ri«fU3| iaportAOce from whatever poiet of View it may be retried." Xh* p«rty, whfeh insladed thV Hon B. Olirer, Mr Private Secretary, and the Cn#irin»n t&d -embere of the Harbour Board* then proe*.viei by boat to Tewae'e Point, the ptiptm-i rite of a battery, alserwarde latidiog at \h* piiot *t*tio«, and walking back toC»Tf;p, Utown. The *hip City of Ferth (Se* Zst.rA shippisg Company) wae decorated, ar.i f;»pt4in kindly had prepared far ihe recepU'T, of the Governor, who regretted his want cf 'irr.e'to inspect the floe ship aod accept the •■ipuin'i boipitttlity. On tb* retorn jou;r#j, h -,jxA was made to the Ocean B*»ch ob the t*%*\:d side of the Raff FeniMole, wbi-b Si «&. lidered a weak point for 6*Umw r. -.rpotm. , His Excellency did not attach .7:t.-n importance to this place, pointing out • beach wae not ssited for Undid * krje> i body of men. The retorc to u, »n vae made shortly after noon, aad Hi* has remained in prirate tma. Th# scoundrel Sulliran, who a girl at Waanatoka, is still %\ Unt, Ii appears be bad, nndar the clonk of re'.igiaiw eocTictioc, got the confidence of tb* family I for whom he was working; and they were laid that he h*4 deiibe.-»->ly expressed his intention to violate the girl, taey would cot believe it, and no step* #;-a *.»k» r , to remove him froai the prec.ue*. H« i» % sailor and came to the Bluff m the A : i-zict . on her last voyage. He will m«t .ii-; r 3^k » ' for a port aomewhere. It is belief-: '-.* hU no coat on when he left the hotue if. » :he . deed. He was caoght ia the »■:: «d , tbreatened to rip np the man who n » .:- : f | be stopped bim. Tbe police teem :o s -«t &> assistance in the hnnt. [tbox otna owv <soaaisroyiis«: WBLLISQXON, M xzes 7. It is stated th&t Wbitekw, :% .•* ;.f tr.» Asylum, who Sgured so conepi:.: .j.j - ?.-i a short time ago, is at present i :t> ' hone 'bos in Melbourne.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6871, 8 March 1883, Page 4
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