WELLINGTON. May 3.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, 4 May 1881, Page 2

WELLINGTON. May 3.

The Government have arranged for the New Zealand Southern mail to be fumigated and forwarded at once by tho Penguin, and for tho psissen^eiM to bo landed at Auckl uid on Quarantine Station. \rwngeinenta have aho been m\\v? for the City of New York codling in Auckland harbor, but she will be obliged to c\rry her Now Zealand cir^o on to Sydney, whence it will be sent back by the return steamer, as the Sydney mails cinnot ba detuned. The cases of measles which occurred on board are reported by the captain to be of a mild type. Tho Penguin has been detained at Manakau until to-morrow to allow tinio for the mails to bo fumigated At the Magistrate's C )urfc two public ins were charged with Sunday trading. The evidence wait to show that spirits were supplied to a little boy for a sick lady, and his Worship said the only comfort he felt in having to inflict a penalty on offenders of this kind was the fact that the public mind would be so directed to the ridicule, usness of the law on this subject as to induce people to force an amendment on the Hohs-3. He thoroughly approved of the restriction of Su.iday traffic, but as the Uw stood at present publicans would bo debarred, not only from selhn« liquor on Sunday in cases of emergency such as sickness or accident, but also from even giving it away. The minimum fine was inflicted.