NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 7562, 29 May 1885, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Per Pbebs Association.] AUCKLAND, May 28. At the annual meeting of the Auckland Fibre Company, the report showed a net profit of .£677, which was carried forward, making the balance at credit of profit and loss account, ,£1497. Messrs J. M. Clark and C, B, Stone were re-elected Directors. King has been scratched for the Great Northern Steeplechase. Boulton, the prisoner who recently attempted suicide at Mount Eden Gaol by opening an artery, has made another attempt by strangling himself, and has been committed to the Lunatic Asylum. A Court of Enquiry has been held into the collision between the Macgregor and Wellington. The decision was reserved till Friday, when an enquiry into the collision between the Gareloch and Herald will be held. Hugh Hast Lusk, solicitor, is bankrupt. His .statement showed—liabilities, ,£3937; assets, book debts, .£657, estimated to yield £75. Other assets secured. The Home correspondent of the Herald states that shortly after the sailing of the Kaikoura from London, in March, it was discovered that a tradesman of Cambridge had eloped with a girl in her teens, leaving a deserted wife and eleven children. He was recognised on board by a sailor and a passenger, who communicated with the wife’s friends. The guilty pair are believed to have landed at Auckland, and justice is on their trail. WELLINGTON, May 28. As yet, no clue has been found to the perpetrators of the jewellery robbery,, 1 The value of the goods stolen is now esti mated at .£BOO. * Government were in Cabinet thellhole afternoon. Most of the principal

to be presented to Parliament by Ministers are now complete. The following gentlemen are gazetted Superintendents of Quarantine: —H. S. M'Kellar, Wellington; T. Hill, Auckland; A. Ease, Lyttelton; and James Hackworth, Dunedin.

. A telegram received in town to-day records the total destruction by fire this morning of Prosser’s hotel, at Opunake, The insurances are as follow:—On the building. National .£SOO, New Zealand ,£SOO, Equitable .£250, United .£250; and on the stock and furniture, Victoria .£6OO. No particulars are yet to hand- as to how the fire originated. At the Government Insurance meeting, last night. Sir Julius Vogel stated that it was intended to do away with the industrial branch of the institution; and another step that had been decided on was to increase the rates of premiums to new policy holders. The latter course had been adopted on the strong recommendation of their actuarial advisers. NELSON, May 28. A man named W. H. Lloyd was brought over from Collingwood in the steamer today and was at once taken to the hospital. Ten minutes after admission ho died. The cause was heart disease. H?. was about 50 years of age, and had been a miner in Collingwood district about 26 years. GREYMOUTH, May 28, Marriott Sheard, coalminer, was killed instantaneously in the Brunner mine this evening while working in that part of the mine where the banquet was held when the Premier visited here. Not quite a truck of coal and' stone fell on him. He was thirty years of age, and leaves a widow and seven children. DUNEDIN, May 28. An inquest was held on a five-year-old child who was supposed to have died from negligence of the parents, but the medical evidence disclosed nothing beyond the fact of the child having been very weak and suffering'from wasting diseases. The jury considered the parents deserving of great censure for not procuring medical attention. At the Police Court, ten boys, ranging in age from seven to ten years, were' charged with stealing a quantity of raisins. The parents were ordered to chastise them. The father of one suggested that the parents should have been summoned, as they would be having babies in Court next. i INVERCARGILL, May 28. At the District Court to-day, the application of the Official Assignee to annul a bill of sale and mortgage for J 02135, given by F. E. White,, hotelkeeper, of Winton, to T. Surman within four weeks of sequestration, was granted. His Honor said he believed Stmnan intended to act honourably in the matter, and was unaware of the. position of White, who owed large sums to other creditors.