NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8881, 18 May 1892, Page 5

NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.

[BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] THE MINISTER OF LANDS. The Hon. John McKenzie is a passenger by the s.s. larawera from Lytfcelton to the South. CHARGE OF shekp STEALING. H. W. Kempton, charged with sheep stealing at Carterton, has been committed for trial. THE OASIAR.tT ASSESSMENT COURT. The Oamaru Assessment Court pub up a record on Monday, when the Board of Reviewers met and found not a single appeal against valuations. FIRE AT DUNEDIN. A six-roomed house in N.E.Valley, owned and occupied by Richard Brinsley, was burned on .Monday. It was insured in the Norwich Union for £200. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. Mr. Wilson, General Manager of the Midland Railway Company, is in Nelson. A meeting of the Nelson Railway League was held on Monday to meet Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hilton, one of the directors of the company. BOARD OF REVIEWERS. Yesterday the Christchurch Board of Reviewers for Sydenham reduced the aggregate value of three houses from which the Sydenham Licensing Committee recently took away the hotel licenses from £4,100 to £2700. INTERCOLONIAL FOOTBALL. Mr. Hoben, secretary to the New Zealand Football Union, has received communication from the Northern Rugby Union (Queensland), asking that, if possible, the visit of the New Zealand team should be timed so that the matches may be played at Brisbane during the Exhibition week in August. The Queensland representative team visits Sydney to play a series of matches in July. THE WELLINGTON BETTING CASES. Further judgment in the illegal betting cases was delivered by the Wellington magistrate yesterday. In the cases against Simmonds and Patterson the magistrate held that no evidence was adduced to show that they were acting as definite agents, and he lined Simmonds £20 and costs £4 7s, in default one month ; and Patterson £10 and costs £1 Bs, in default 14 days. Notice of appeal was given in Simmonds' case. The hearing of the case against Fred Martin, pork butcher, for laying totalisator odds throughout the colony on Easter Monday last, was resumed yesterday morning, but not concluded when the Court rose for tho day. Constable Gantley, in the course of his evidence, said he was not aware that there was anything in the police regulations which prevented him from investing money on the totalisator, but racing investments of another character might possibly be against the regulations, i Martin had once told him he was prepared to lay totalisator odds in the colony, and starting prices out of the colony.