NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6872, 9 March 1883, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Pan Ritas Association.] AUCKLAND, Maboh 8. It is rumoured that Sir Hercules Hobinsoa intends visiting England daring the spring. Sir Dillon B«U’t health is unsatisfactory. Bit physicians recommend a warmer climate. The Auckland and Hawke’s Bay Loan Company, with a capital of £IOO,OOO, is now being formed in London. . The Bishop of Nelson returns to the Colony (his month. _ , . , Mr diaries Bright, the Freethought lecturer, intends returning from Australia, shortly to Dunedin. Advices were received by the mail of the shipment of rails for the Auckland City Mr fiiflocsbe opened last night at the Opera House to an excellent audience. The first annual meeting of the Thames Taller and Batoraa Railway Company was held to-day. Dr Campbell presided. The report stated that a satisfactory arrangement bad beea concluded with kh© larg«t land ownurt through who»o property the lino patted* as to the terms of cession of tne land required.. The first instalment of plant had been ordered from Home, and would arrive in time to meet all contract requirements. The prios at which the rails were purchased a as as 6d per ton within the engineers estimate. The surrey of the first section is now completed, and a contract for it would soon be let. Oonoeroiog the second section the Directors were now in correspondence with Government to do their duty in a work which should have been a‘State one, and not left to private individuals to accomplish. The report was adopted. The following were 1 elected Directors: —Dr Campbell, Captain , Daldy, Mems 3. M, Clarke, Peacock, T. ■ Motrin, P. Comiekey, M‘L*an, Joseph 1 Howard, and Halcome. Wah&nui came into Alexandra and had a friendly but brief meeting with Mr Bryce. t - . - - i NAPIEB, Maboh 8, Mr B. Smith, a well-known architect, formerly of Wellington, while crossing the , railway bridge this morning at Walpawa, was run over by a train and killed. The deceased > was seen by the driver to bold on by the I girders as the train approached t but while it was pasting it is thought he must have become giddy and have fallen forward. Mr Smith was superintending the erection of a large mansion for Mr 3. Harding, at Mount Vernon. WELLINGTON, Maboh 8. H.M.B. Espibgle arrived here early this 1 morning. 5 The Mawee, with the southern portion of . the San Ihraooiseo mall, crossed the Monukau bar at 10.60 this morning. She comes vik Taranaki and Nelson, and is expected to reach 1 hens on Friday night, laths carbine match, against the Dunedin * Artillery this mornitr file Wellington Navels •cored 681. The highest scorer was 80, and the 10w5?163. The weather was favourable for good shooting. DUNEDIN, Maboh 6. > The Jhmedln Bran* of the k Institete •! Marine Bsudneers have carried

resolution supporting th# action to be taken in Melbourne to the sffset that if th# eld rat# of £l4 p«r month be not paid to third engineers, th# result will be, In tho language of the letter received from Melbourne, to ” call out our men." Th# Trass has taken up th* question of dummying alleged to have taken place at Che recent sales of deferred payment pastoral land. Both* 2Vm«« and Jltrald have articles this morning, Baying that tho rumour* are *6 circumstantial that they deserve serious attention, and the 2\met suggests the appointment of a Oom (station to thoroughly probe the matter. Mr M. W. Green, M.R.8., as Chairman of the Harbour Board*# employees’ branch of the Trade* and Labour Society, wrote asking that the workmen on the steamer# end dredge* should be granted a half holiday on Saturday. Tho Board carried a resolution—- <( That Mr Green be informed that any such request from the men could be considered only when made from the proper quarter, namely, from the head of their Department." The cricketers, footballers, bowlers and boating men of Dunedin intend giving Mr James Allen a dinner before he leaves for RngluwA Mr Allen was captain of the football team* who thrashed Now South Wales and Canterbury last year, and ha# rowed for Otago against Canterbury. INVEBOABQILL, Mabou 8. A meeting of th# creditors of A. F, Gal- ' lagher, baker and confectioner, was held today. The debtor’s statement showed liabilities, £l4B8 1 assets, household furniture and shop fittings, and value of plant £560, subject to bill of sale to Osborne and Sloan; book debts, £180; equity of redemption of house at Winton, £2O j total, £690; deficiency, £738. The Trustee explained that there would be nothing for th# uneeoured creditors, and that secured creditors would lose most of their money. The effects had been realised but had not brought anything like the figure set upon them by the debtor. After £l2O had been absorbed by rent there was only about £IOO to place against the oille of sale. One creditor signified his intention of proposing, when the proper time arrives, that the Trustee represent the matter clearly before the Court, with the view of getting a punishment inflicted upon tho debtor for the loose manner in which he had carried on his bu*iDMA# t Yesterday, a covered van belonging to Mr Whitaker, of Dipton, and driven by M'Ooy, was caught by the Kingston train near Athol. The hone was torn from the trap and killed, and M’Ooy was knoaked from hie seat and fell on the cow-catcher, to which he clung, and was carried some distance. He received trivial injuries. He had picked np a woman named Mrs Patterson, of Barrows, shortly before. She was thrown oat on the road and received injuries to her knee and face. M'Ooy says he did not hear the whistle if it was sounded, and the vegetation at the place prevented a clear view of th# line. [ntox our own cofiß*spojrDxxrr/| WELLINGTON, Maboh 8. It is stated that the ships of the Australian squadron ate rendezvousing at Wellington for the purpose of holding on important courtmartial. At the impending meeting of the Licensing Committee for Lambton district, the police intend to object to the renewal of a license to Mr# Ellen Harding, of the Union Hotel, on account of the revelations in the recent “ lambing-down" case. At a meeting of the Harbour Board this afternoon the salary of Mr H. M. Lyon, the Secretary, was increased from £BOO to £4OO per annum.