NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9650, 16 February 1892, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, Feb. 15, Mr W. Edwards, late captain of the West End Rowing Club, was this evening presented with a handsome photographic shield by the Club. One hundred members were present, together with representatives of athletics, and Messrs Lawry and Carroll, M.H.E’s. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is inaugurating a Band of Mercy in the city, and will endeavour to introduce cards in the public schools. It has done so in the Sunday-schools. Dr Lamb, of the New Hebrides Mission, was ordained this evening in the presence of tho members of the Presbyterian Assembly, There was a large attendance. The Auckland Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting relative to the Chicago Exhibition, decided to do nothing till the arrival of Mr Seddon. TAURANGA, Feb. 15. The cases brought by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pgaiist

Charles Harley and John Kennedy, for cruelty in overdriving in a match from Waihi to Tanranga, a distance of fiftysis miles, when Harley’s horse died fifteen miles from Tanranga, were heard to-day. The police asked for a heavy penalty. Harley was convicted, and fined 50s and costs £lO 19s. The case against Kennedy was dismissed, the constable’s evidence showing that his horse was not even hot when passing Katikati. WELLINGTON, Feb. 15. The annual conference of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church will commence in Wellington, on Tuesday, Match 1, and will last about a fortnight. During their stay here the Revs J. Berry and W. Morley will deliver the report of the (Ecumenical Conference, recently held in Washington, U.S.A. Over one hundred ministerial members and lay representatives will ha iu Wellington during tha conference. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 15., The second trial of Hellish and Thomson for the alleged larceny of Mr Hatch’s sealskins was not concluded to-night.