WELLINGTON. June 16.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8004, 18 June 1894, Page 3

WELLINGTON. June 16.

The City Council intends to promote a local bill thia session, giving them greatly extended powers of onforcing banitary reforms. Two mon named Oox woro buried by a slip in a gravol pit at Martinborough, Lower Wairarap.*, yesterday. Ono w»s got out much bruised, but David William, aged 21 years, was found quito dead, his legs and body being crushed. The four brothers, John, Hugh, Allen, •nd Charles Cameron, were charged at the Magistrate's Court this morning with keeping an illicit still in Gollau's Valley, and remanded until tho 29th iust. The Commissioner of Police has received a cable confirming the arrest of Bailey, the New Zealand abscondcr, in Dubbo, with L9OO in hja possession. | J3 liley was a stc.ck drover and dealer, and in April last ho suddenly disappeared, after disposing to stock dealers in Palmorston North and Uawkes Bay of a tnob of cattlo belonging to email settlers in and around the Taianaki district. A constdible will be lent immediately to bring the accuaed back. At » meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union Maiirigemont Committee last night the charges made against the Wellington representative team by tho

Nolson Union were considered, and it writ) decided that thoro hud been un ; necessarily rough play, hik\ tlmt much of iho llifetMing had bcon cmsod by the simihri'y c»f uniforms ; ulso, th.it tho captain of tho Wellington team failod ot control his moti. It was rogolvod tlmt tho Nelson Union was to blnmu fur not providing un efficient roferoc, and tlmt M'Kciizip, wlio iraa cap'ain of (ho Wolliii^ton town, bo not ng.itn ullowud to net as oipain of a representative) icmidur ing the ploaßuro of the Now Zealand Union.