NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 8903, 20 September 1889, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Sept. 10. The etfilonipiit of funds of tlu* City Bowing Club allows a credit balance of jBIO2 12s 4d. Seven fine kauri spars from the bush at

the Sand Spit, Thames, were sent to Dun" edin to-day by the Kotomahana, to the order of the Union Steamship Company. The yacht J essie Logan has been sold to Mr A. Dixon of Wellington, and will be sent to the latter port on board the steamer Tarawera. It is probable that the yacht will be sailed at the Dunedin Exhibition Eegatta by her late owner, Mr W. Jones. His Honor Mr Justice Connolly was entertained at dinner to-night at the Auckland Club by members of the legal profession. Amongst the passengers for Sydney by the Tarawera was a fish and oyster dealer named Welby, who goes to England to take possession of a legacy bequeathed to him. Two hundred cases of apples from California, by the Mariposa, were found to be infested with Codlin moth. The Customs authorities therefore prohibited their landing here, and the cases were taken on to Sydney. WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. > At a meeting of the City Council this evening a letter was received from His Excellency the Governor, with reference to the drainage in the vicinity of Government House. Without being read the letter was referred to the Public Works Committee. Prom sixteen applicants the Council appointed Mr G. Y. Kemaley, late of the Napier and Spit Fire Brigades, captain of the Wellington Municipal Brigade, vice Captain Page, deceased. Captain Saville, the Governor’s aide-de-camp, who has been laid up with a serious attack of typhoid fever, is now almost convalescent. He left for Nelson to-day. DUNEDIN, Sept. 19. Snow fell for about two hours this morning, at Tapanui.

At a meeting of the Exhibition Commissioners to-day, it was intimated that the Scottish collection of pictures would arrive by the Taiuui. A cablegram from Lord Carrington, Governor of New South Wales, states that ho will, if possible, attend the opening ceremony. Lord Carrington, the Governor of New South Wales, cables that he intends to be present at the opening of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition. INVEECAEGILL, Sept. 19. After a very fine winter, the weather has become broken and inclement, with heavy hail showers.