NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 7563, 30 May 1885, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND. Mat 29. Charles Hoy, an old man, dropped dead at Otahuhu of heart disease. Ho had been drinking. The steamer Macgrogor has been successfully floated off the rocks, at Kawau, and beached at Bon Accord Harbour, where she will be repaired and brought on to Auckland. The City North Licensing Committee have notified no less than six hotels of objections to renewing licenses on the grounds of Sunday trading,, insufficient accommodation, and that they’ are not required in the neighbourhood. Steps are being taken to canvass the city ve establishing a company with a capital of .£60,000 to work 1.:, Route's patent for gold saving. I GISBOENE, Mat 29. Anxiety is felt here for the safety of the barque Lochnagax, which left here 142 days ago for London, laden with wool. Nothing has been heard> of hoc; since.

There was only one passenger, Mr Ralph Arthur. HAWEEA, May 29. The only particulars re the Opunake fire, by which Prosser’s Hotel was destroyed, as yet to hand are that the fire commenced about three o’clock at the west end of the building. Some shavings in Duffield’s furniture shop, on the opposite corner, caught fire, but it was fortunately discovered in time, otherwise there is no doubt several buildings between Duffield’s and Crowther’s would have gone. The cause is not known. The building was burned with extraordinary rapidity. The fire was first noticed about half-past three, and by four o’clock the building was totally destroyed, there being a strong wind blowing at the time. Whether the fire brole out in the billiard-room or storeroom appears to be a mystery. A quantity of furniture was saved, but nothing of any great value. WELLINGTON, May 29 Government have received official intimation that the New Zealand loan has been placed on the London market at a minimum of 97L The manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency has received a cable message from London to the effect that the meat by the s.s. Ruapehu has arrived in bad condition in consequence of the piston of the freezing machinery having broken on the voyage. A passenger by the Foxton coach, who got in at Foxton yesterday, was found dead last night when the coach arrived in town. From papers found on the body it is surmised that the deceased is John Wilding, who had been engaged as overseer on the Wellington-Manawatu railway. He has a daughter a schoolmistress in Marten, and it is believed that he has friends in Oamaru. Wilding was on his way to the Wellington Hospital. At the inquest the post mortem showed tTiat death resulted from the diseased condition of deceased’s heart and lungs, and a verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony. DUNEDIN, May 29. A man named W. B. Stanley, while cleaning spouting on the roof of the City Hotel, slipped, and fell through the skylight a distance of 35ft on to the asphalt in the back yard. He is not expected to live. At the City Court, Sydney Knight was sentenced to two months’ hard labour for assaulting a Chinaman. The evidence disclosed a shocking state of immorality, the prisoner compelling his wife to live with the Chinese. He is well connected in England, and is understood to be a remittance man. His children appeared in Court yesterday, charged with theft. Andrew Dalziel, one of the original Otago settlers, died yesterday, aged 80.