NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 9091, 30 April 1890, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Fee Peess Association.] AUCKLAND, Apain 29. Ifc has been resolved to devote the Jubilee celebration surplus, .£l5O, to a school for the blind, on condition that the public subscribe an equal amount. His Excellency the Governor leaves Auckland to-morrow morning, going to Lichfield by train, and then riding through the lake country to Napier. Lady Onslow will leave on Friday by the steamer Hiuomoa/.arriving at Napier on Sunday. Fifty-three entries have been received by the Auckland Eacing Club for the Northern Champagne Stakes, 1891. Mr Gollan is the principal nominator, with five. A call from Dunedin, to tlxe Ivev J 3. Hutson, of Whangarei, has been sustained by the Auckland Presbytery. At the annual election of a School Committee for Auckland city, Mr W. Gorrie, who had been a member for many years, and also Chairman for a considerable time, was not elected. Mr E. J. Glover headed the poll with one hundred and eighty-nine votes. General regret was expressed at the rejection of Mr Gorrie, and a motion was carried instructing the incoming Committee to communicate with the Government with a view of having the cumulative clauses of the Education Act repealed. A telegram from Hamilton states that settlement is increasing in that district. A family of French farmers have taken up 350 acres about two miles from Hamilton, and it is reported that several settlers are coming from Victoria. The Earatongan natives who visited Auckland for tbe Jubilee, and who returned home by the Sarah Pile, arrived at Earatonga on March 30. The chief Tcpou was greatly affected on finding that during his absence his eldest daughter, a bright intellectual girl cf sixteen years, had died.

Amongst the through passengers to Sydney by the Alameda was Mies Annis Montagu, the well-known prima donna. Messrs A. and J. Stone have left for Melbourne to put on the market a new coal mining property on the West Coast. The steeplechasers Recruit and Seaweed were shipped to Sydney to-day. WELLINGTON, April 29. _ At a meeting of the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association this afternoon, Mr W, H. Levin was re-elected President, and Dr Newman Vice-Pre-sident. At the annual meeting of the Acclimatisation Society the report showed a credit balance of .£155, and that the past year’s operations had been very successful. It was decided to introduce snipe from the Auckland Isles, and partridge from India. 'The Directors of the Opera House Company are arranging to lease the Theatre Royal for a term of five years at an annual rent of £350. DUNEDIN, April 29. The United Hercules Sluicing Company, Roxburgh, washed up 7lozs Gdwts 12gra of gold for four and a half days’ sluicing. The Certifying Committee of the Dunedin Horticultural Society have given a first-class certificate 'to a new chrysanthemum from Mr Forsyth, Oamaru, a sport of Empress Eugenie ,to ha called “ Mrs John Mitchell.” At a meeting of cabmen to-night it was decided to form a Union. The Drapers Assistants’ Union to-night decided to affiliate with the Trades and Labour Council. A resolution was passed, pledging the members not to purchase in shops after 6 p.m,, nor purchase anything in a ehop at any other time which keeps open after six o’clock. At the inquest on Chitty, the verdict of "Suicide by hanging while temporarily insane,” was returned. Evidence as to deceased’s peculiar demeanour was given by the family.