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New Zealand Mail, Issue 744, 4 June 1886, Page 17

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.' (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Invercakgill, June 2. The Licensing Committees in town have refused every application for bottle licenses. Several houses whish formerly had 11 o'clock licenses were reduced to 10 o'clock. The accommodation license held for inany Tears by W. Shiells, of Meuzies' Ferry, was refused on the ground that the house was not wanted. The Awarua Committee refused a license to the Junction Hotel, near a public sale-yard. The house was burned down a few days ago, and was to be rebuilt in brick. A renewal of the license of the Three Horses Hotel was also refused. In some cases adjournments of rejected applications were asked for and granted. The town Committees are not strictly temperance bodies. The Southland News reports that T. J. Thompson, late underwriters' surveyor at the Bluff, and a well-known resident here, was one of those drowned in the Ijy-ee-mooo. He lately resigned his appointment, and went on a trip to Australia. He was a man of great energy and enterprise in developing the m'neral resources of the district, being the discoverer of the Nightcaps coalfield, and more recently patentee of the cement made from materials found at the Bluff.

Excitement exists amongst intending passengers for the Kimberley gold fields by the schooner Orpheus because the Customs authorities are objectiug to her carrying pas sengers on the ground that she has not the space per adult required by the Act. It is expected the passengers will ship as crew at a shilling a month. The Orpheus takes a large assorted cargo, and is expected to get away this evening or to-morrow morning. The direct steamer Arawa, due on 4th July, will take on board here 200,0001 b of frozen meat, and will then go South. The Tongariro calls here on the 6th July to take 200,0001 b of meat for London. The Bootmakers’ Union are appealing to the public for subscriptions to the fund for sending the surplus unemployed of the trade away South, where work is offered them. The Harbor Board have scheduled works to be undertaken out of the proposed loan of £200,000. They involve increased wharfage, abed accommodation, and reclamation. The unemployed got the Mayor to telegraph resolutions passed at a meeting, namely—- “ That the Government be asked to open relief works at once for 200 men. At the Presbytery meeting yesterday, the question of the Rev J. M. Kilden, Wangarei, being allowed to practice as a lawyer on condition of his accepting a reduced stipend was again, discussed. Mr Kilden announced -that he would resign if the proposal was not accepted. It was considered inadvisable to get Mr Kilden out of the church, but most of the speakers were adverse to the proposed combination of law and gospel. Ultimately the question was adjourned till next me Ming, notice of motion being given by the Rev G. B. Monro against giving Mr Kilden permission to appear in a secular occupation. Fonr deserters from the American whaler Petrel have made charges of great cruelty against the captain and mate. It is alleged that they deserted in order to reach Auckland and complain to the American Consul. Captain Webb, acting Consul, left for Russell to night to investigate the charges. Mr Vaile, the railway reformer, leaves for Wellington to-morrow to give evidence before the Railway Charges Committee in the interests of the Railway Reform League. Greymouth, June 2.

A number of miners (26) from various parts of the district, leave to-morrow by the Koranui en route for Kimberley, Sydney being where they will outfit. They are mostly veteran miners, a good many dating back early in the fifties. Woodville, June 2. G. H. Sinclair, late agent of the Bank of New Zealand here, was presented last night with a purse of sovereigns on the occasion of his transfer to the Wellington branch of the Bank. Christchurch, June 2. Yesterday a little girl named Trevenna, 15 months old, died from scalding. She pulled a cup of hot tea over herself on Saturday. Andrew Van Hallow was committed for trial to-day for robbing his mate, Thomas Joyce, of an order on the Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association for £3.Z. The third session of the Christchurch Parliamentary Association was opened tonight, wben§ Mr T. S. Weston delivered an gddress to the members. Robert Kent and Charles Stanton Wedge were committed for trial to-day under a charge of robbery with violence. There is another case of the same nature against two other men, to be beard to-morrow. W. H. Messenger, the hotelkeeper, who absconded to Melbourne, was brought before the Police Court to-day, charged with the misdemeanor of deserting his wife and going to another colony. He was remanded. Dunedin, June 2. An expressman named George Brenner fell while lifting a box on the wharf, and died shortly after from, it is supposed, some internal disease.