LATE TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 931, 3 January 1890, Page 17

LATE TELEGRAMS.

Iyer press association.) Christchurch, December 31. The notice made a raid 'Du the larrikins on Christmas Eve, and to-day half a dozen young fellows were brought before the Resident Magistrate, and fined sums ranging from £2 to 5s for breaking fenceß and similar acts of vandalism. Dunedin, December 31. The Gallant Tipperary, of Arrowfcown, seat down a cake of 2650 z of retorted gold, from 400 tons of stuff,

(Wgih’ §6mlfiefV}lle has secured a splendid range’ 66**' tfriffg«al GM«We ot aeeamodating any nurhber 6i tSfgSwi The meeting, therefore, can be got otfer within d Week. The hb’mpetitoifs are to be railed off® by special ftarin each mopping at 7 o’clock, returning to towi! ati &, but as' a good water supply is close to the i'fc is expected that a large number will go into damp. .The range is as level as a bowling green, a natural background. Captain Sommerville is of opinion that it is unequalled in the Colony, having the additional advantage that it has neVef been fired over. There is great disaatisfa’dtio’n at the apathy of the looal representatives 61 th'd Association, who proceeded to Melbourne 6’Verything in abeyance. The Mayor has been requested to call a meeting with a view to proourlflg funds for the Otago Match, but the friction hitherto existing between the commanding officers of this district and the Association’s representatives may seriously interfere, though Mr Roberta hits Undertaken to act as peacemaker. There is no difficulty In fhoviding telegraphic communication, M there is a telephone line a quarter of a mile froth the range. . . The Committee of the Anglers’ Association have sustained the protest against Alexander Thompson, of Owake, in connection with the Exhibition fishing competition, and have awarded the gold medal to Henry L. St. George Hamilton, of Glenmourn, and ths silver medal to George Mtmfo, of Dunedin, There are a very large number of strangers in town for the holidays; and; notwithstanding the dull; cold evenings,- the streets are crowded. In vercarguUj, December 31.

At the Police Court to-day, in tile test case brought by the police to settle the point whether licensing committees have power to grant special permits to publicans to keep open after hours on holidays, which has been a customary thing for years, Mr McCulloch, R.M., ruled that committees had acted illegally, and fined Ann Maria McLaughlin, the licensee of the Farmers’ Arms Hotel, the mitigated penalty of ss, and endorsed the license, for keeping open on JBoxing night on the strength of holding a permit from two members of the committee. Over 20 publicans have applied for permits for to-night ana to-morrow, but owing tp the Magistrate s decision they will not be granted. Auckland, December 31.

A colony of bum Ole bees, about 40 in number, have been brought from Canterbury by Mr Edmonds of Kirikiriroa, and will be liberated. It. is now known that Henry George will arrive in Auckland about March Ist, on his way to Australia. He will afserward return to New Zealand aud give his first lecture in Dunedin, then visiting the other centres. The general and nursing staffs of the Auokland Hospital have presented Drs Bell and Forbes, retiring medical officers, with a set of dental instruments and a cigarette case. The Rarotonga chief Tepou and his son interviewed Mr Mitohelson to-day. The latter promised-: to do what he could to supply free railway tickets to the Rarotongan troupe, at present in Auokland.