NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10219, 13 December 1893, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Pkb Pbesb Association.] AUCKLAND, Dec. 12. A man named Guild has been fined 28s and costs for touting for a hoarding-house at the Auckland railway station. The Victorian authorities have accepted tho Harbour Board'..; offer, namely, that tho former should pay £250, leaving the dredge as she is without dismantling. The tributore who contracted to work the abandoned works at the Kawakawa coalmine, as a co-operative body of miners have commenced operations. They have agreed to. deliver to the Company, at the railway works, one hundred tons of coal per month. At a meeting of the Liberal Association the matter of arbitration where more than one Liberal is contesting the same seat in Parliament was considered, but no decision was arrived at. Joseph Lue, a Chinese missionary, has arrived from Ballarat to labour among his countrymen in Auckland, under the direction of the Auckland Chinese Mission. The University examinations commenced to-day. Seventy-nine students presented themselves. WELLINGTON, Dec. 12. • The Gear Meat Company’s balance of profit and loss is £7918, of which £4600 will ha devoted to a ten psr cent dividend, and the remainder -carried forward. The reserve stands at £22,000. The new lighthouse on Stephen’s Island will be opened in the middle of January. The Hawke’s Bay relief fund amounts to £371. By the general consent of the members of the Masonic Craft throughout the Colony, Wellington was to furnish a Grand Master for the ensuing year, and it is announced that Bro H. D. Bell, who has agreed to accept the office if elected, has been, selected by the members of the Grand Lodge in Wellington, and will be duly nominated at the quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge in Dunedin next week. The girl Price, arrested on a charge of murdering her infant at Otaki, was formerly a barmaid in Christchurch, and more recently in Picton. The sum of £445 has been collected for the Hawke’s Bay flood relief fund. It is intended to close the list when the total is £SOO. DUNEDIN, Dec. 12. There are 131 candidates for the matriculation examination, which started today, of whom 45 are young women. Included in the number are 17 candidates for junior scholarships, and 11 for the medical preliminary examination. Information baa been laid against two hotelkeepers, under the now Act, for selling liquor between eleven and twelve o’clock at night. Under tho old Act there was no penalty for this. The deaths are annoancsd of Mr John M’Kenaia, of Palmerston, from influenza, and of, Mr Driscoll, ex-timber merchant, in the city.