AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10105, 2 August 1893, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

THE COROWAI CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, August 1. Messrs W. J. Tyne and Kidd will represent the Government at the Oorowai Conference. The Victorian include the Hon J. Patterson and Sir Graham Berry. A CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED. The Marine Board has suspended the certificate of Captain Phillipeon of the s.a. Hilda, which was recently wrecked oil Port Hacking, for three mouths. THE MERCANTILE BANK CASES. MELBOURNE, August 1, The trial of Sir M. Davies and Mr P. Milledge in connection with the Mercantile Bank cases has begun. SCAB IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. PERTH, August 1. Scab has made its appearance amongst the sheep in the Swan district.

NJBW ZEALAND. [Pkb Pbebb Association.] AUCKLAND, August 1. The gold and bullion from the Hauraki mining district, Auckland, for the pant six months totalled £95,677 in value. A five-roomed house, owned and occupied by Mr J. A. Park, engineer, waa burned down at Huntley. It is insured in the New Zealand office for £IOO, and the furniture in the Standard for .£IOO. NAPIER, August 1. The Harbour Board’s new dredge, costing £7500, was successfully launched this morning in the presence of a large concourse of people, but there was no official ceremony. A young man named Stuart Richmond, a cadet at the Mangateritero station, committed suicide this morning in a most determined manner. His brother had been talking with him on the verandah, but had left to put on his boots. Hearing the report of a gun ho ran into the house, and saw his brother lying on the floor with tha top of his head blown off. There >aa a rifle beside him, with a string

attached to the trigger, indicating that I he had tired it with his foot. He was a recent arrival from Wellington, where he | had relatives. Last summer he suffered j from influenza, and never properly re- | covered. He often said he wished he was dead, bub no suicidal tendencies were sub- j pected. NELSON, August 1. | A deadlock has occurred between the ■ Nelson town School Committee and the Education Board. The latter appointed a head master transferred from a country ; district without the invitation of applica- 1 tions, as recommended by the Committee, i and the latter has closed the school. The Board has suggested reopening the school ; under the new head master, and stating a \ case for the Suoreme Court to decide the rights of each body. The Committee to-night declined to reopen the school, and is calling a meeting of householders. It is expected that the Board will take forcible possession of the school in the morning. WELLINGTON, August 1. A meeting of shopkeepers condemned the compulsory clause of the Shops and Shop Assistants Bill, and decided to _ petition against it. Other meetings will be held. . , The rainfall for July was 7 - 3 inches, more tshan one inch above the average. At a meeting of the Benevolent Trustees this afternoon, Mr J. P. M’Cleary, master of the Home, presented a return for the first six months’ working of the institution. This showed that the total cost per inmate, after allowing 5 per cent for J depreciation of property, and including j everything except the cost of the building and its insurance, was a shade under 6s Id per week. The trustees paid a high compliment to Mr and Mrs M’Cleary, and expressed pleasure at the small cost per head to maintain the Home.