NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6164, 19 August 1881, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[from our own correspondents.]

THAMES, Thursday. Two lads named Samuel and Michael Quadri were charged with larrikinism to-day, and on the charge being proved, the magistrate ordered the father to be bound over in £25 for . their good behaviour for six months. Mr., Keiirick expressed the opinion that parents were. greatly to blame when they allowed, their children to be out in the streets after, dark. It is probable that another meeting of the Coromandel and Thames local bodies will be held to discuss the . Ministerial proposals, re ithe division of the district under the Representation Bill. ' ; i , The election; of. a councillor .to fill the seat in the County, Council vacated by the ousting of' Mr.' Greenville took place to-day. There were only two.candidates, Mr., Greenville and Mr. Bull. - There was but little excitement shown .over the affair; Mr. Bull polled 147 votes, and Mr. .Greenville 127, leaving the former the successful candidate with a majority of 20 votes. . ... ■ : [pbe*s association,] . • GISBORNE, Thursday. Mr. Benies and some of the directors and shareholders in the Southern Cross Oil Company . have gone to verify the reports re the richness of the find of oil: The Bhares here are up 200 per cent., and hard to get at that. NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday/ John Thomas Shaw, one * of the : first set- [ tiers who came to New Plymouth, died yesterday, at the age of 91 years. .' 5 The harbour works at Moturoaj : are proceeding rapidly; < ' Concrete blocks weighing 188 tons, containing 112 cubic yards, were commenced yesterday moruing,- and finished this afternoon. \ ■ A meeting was held 1 at Waitara last evening for the purpose of considering the present state of the harbour question, especially with' reference to the 1 report of the Parliamentary Committee > on New Plymouth

" 1 ; Harbour, "when the following (which 1 was an- amendment to a resolution) ' was 1 ky four-fifths of those present:— i That - thei colony has pledged - itself Ito carrying - out the New Ply month harbour works, and upon the faith of the pledge, very many persons have settled and invested in this district, both in the purchase'df Crown land and.otherwise, and this meeting is of opinion that the stoppage of the harbour work would bo a gross violation.of public faith, guaranteed by legislative enactment, and would inflict an injury on the whole district." At the meeting, which was the largest ever held at Waitara, there were persons present from ail portions of the provincial district. The matter was fully discussed, when it was shown that the figures quoted in the parliamentary report were wrong, and amongst other things it was stated in six weeks' •time the cement for works which is expected to arrive iu Wellington from England can be landed at the end of tho breakwater, then completed, by vessels of small draught. Also, that with the plant now on the breakwater it can be extended to 21 feet of water at low spring tide for tho money now in baud. The present superintendent of works was engaged on tho Aberdeen breakwater, and also successfully built the one at Arbroath, and before leaving the latter place was presented with a valuable testimonial for the successful manner he carried out tho work, and therefore speaks from experience. He states that tho work can bo done for the money. The harbourmaster says that for three hundred days out of the year vessels can bo alongside tho wharf.

WELLINGTON, Thursday. At the meeting of the Harbour Board this afternoon a committee was appointed to confer with the committee by the City Council on the subject of a dry dock for Wellington. It was also decided that the committee wait on tho Government without delay regarding the question of endowments. His Excellency the Governor will embark on the Emerald for Fiji at Auckland.' She is expected to arrive at Auckland about tho second week in September.

OAMARU, Thursday. A Swede named Charles Augustus was arrested yesterday for committing a brutal assault on his wife, on the Bth inst. On the 3rd inst. his wife was confined, and two or three days afterwards ho committed a carnal assault upon her. She resisted, and for some days afterwards he continued to illtreat her barbarously. Ho refused to allow her to call in a doctor, or to procure any assistance. The woman's case becoming known, steps were taken to liavo her removed to the hospital. This was done, and as her case was, in the doctor's opinion, a serious one, her depositions were taken by the Resident Magistrate last night. This evening the woman died from the injuries inflicted by her husband.