NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10112, 10 August 1893, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Psb Press ae£)ooiat.wn.l AUCKLAND. August 9. Edith May George, aged seventeen years, employed as a nureegirl by Mr Walter Lewis, butcher, dissolved thirty-one match heads in a teaepoonful of milk and drank the same to-day. Upon being questioned the unhappy young girl confessed that she had attempted to poison herself, and gave as a reason that she was not good enough to live. There is every reason to heliove that the girl is suffering from religious mania. She was in the habit of attending the Helping Hand Mission and Salvation Army services, and of lots she has expressed great concern as to her eternal salvation. Last night upon returning home to her mother’s residence in Hobson’s street (her mother states) she refused to go to bed, but sat reading her Bible and saying prayers. Although repeatedly urged to desist, she continued stopping uio until lata in the night. At the time the girl committed suicide in Oaehunga by eating matches. Miss George said that waa what she would no also if people were to talk about her. She was sent to tho Hospital in a precarious condition.

Inspector Hickson continues hia raid on disorderly houses. Some occupiers who have been fined already, were brought up again to-do,y. Counsel for the accused asked for an adjournment' of the case with a view of testing tho validity of the city by-law in the Supreme Court. Tho City Council endorsee tho action of tho Inspector, and will furnish him with counsel to sustain hia action and maintain the validity of the by-law, A house at Mayfield, owned by Joseph Macgnire, baa been burned down, it is supposed accidentally, by gumdiggers. The police authorities have cent Dr Lindsay to Eawene to make a post-mortem examination of the body of a Maori - oman who is alleged to have been beaten recently by her husband. At the Rev L. M. Isitt’s meeting tonigiib at the Auckland Tabernacle on tho direct veto, iVurloea hundred people were present, and the following resolution was unanimously cftrried--?5 < 'Tnflt ; in view of.

the Bill now being considered in the House <?£ Eepreaentatives, this meeting urges the House to give the people control of the liquor traffic by means of the direct vote.” GISBOENE, August 9. Robert George Begley, for horse stealing, was sentenced to five years’ ponal servitude. WELLINGTON, August 9. Hr E. p. D. M’Lean, of Hawke’a Bay, baa given two acres of land in Oriental Bay. for a aits for a Convalescent Home in Wellington. The site is valued at ,£IOOO. and in addition Mr M’Lfan has subscribed £2O to the building fund. DUNEDIN, August 9.

The Commissioner of Taxes is proceeding against three well-known citizens for alleged failing to make proper returns. Mrs Livingston, widow of tho late Provincial Auditor, died to-day, aged eightyfive years. Mr Peter Barr was elected a delegate to represent the profession at the conference of accountants in Wellington, Detectives Henderson and M’Grath this morning arrested two men named Burke and Hunter, who were just leaving by the north express train, on the charge of victimising a man from the country to the extant of M 10s by the confidence trick.

Owing to tho large number of patients at present in the hospital, the trustees have had to use the new wing, and thus lose the revenue expected from the opening ceremony. The Directors of the Westport Coal Company declare an interim dividend for the half-year at the rate of 71 per cent per annum. The Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, in view of the trade here being averse to the branding of every joint of frozen mutton, has decided to take no action in the matter.