NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10111, 9 August 1893, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Peb Press Association.! AUCKLAND, August 8.

The Auckland Amateur Athletic Club gives .£lO to the fund for sending a team to the Australasian Championship Meeting, and has also decided to support the alteration in the rules proposed by the Wellington Club. Mary Ann Glover, wife of W. A. Glover, canvasser, swallowed some matches, and was sent to tho hospital. She stated that she swallowed two small boxes owing to worry. A Maori has been arrested at Taheke, Hokianga, owing to the death of his wife. She is alleged to have been beaten, and that it had something to do with her death. Owing to the state of the roads in the north none of the medical men can reach the place to hold a post-mortem examination, and probably one will have to be sent from. Auckland vi& Northern Wairoa,

WELLINGTON. August 8,

The disturbance at the Bakers’ Union banquet was made tho subject of a court case to-day, when four men appeared on complicated charges of assault. There were each fined £4 with the alternative of j fourteen days’ imprisonment. The other man, who had got decidedly the worst of it, was dismissed,. His Worship remarked that men should not conduct themselves like beasts and cowards when they were assembled to celebrate a social affair among themselves.

The Hospital Trustees have finally decided to light the building with gas, except in the surgery,, where electricity will be used, but it is intended to ask the Gaa Company to supply gas at 6s 3d instead of I 6s Bd, the price now charged. GREYMOUTH, August 8. Mr C. Napier 801 l has been appointed by the Minister for Public Works of New South Wales one of the Commission to enquire into and report on the merit of ! the international system of sewage and | the precipitation and manufacture of sewage sludge into patent manure, as j against a sewage farm at Parramatta for the deposit of the sewage and drainage of the city. DUNEDIN, August 8.

' At the City Court to-day Arthur Edward Ryder and Leandor Harris, well known to the police, were sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour for a series of impudent thefts. It transpires that alias Richards, is the swindler who victimised I a number of leading men in New South iWalos by passing himself off as an army I captain. 1 The Island Block return is 350 z ISdwt, j and the Jutland 17oz. j At the Supreme Court to-day Mr | O’lieilly, joI Gore, a colioitos-whQ has

much in evidence in the Courts lately, complained of a case in which he was concerned not appearing on the civil list; but it was explained that he was in contempt of Court for not paying hm fees. The Judge peremptorily silenced him.