NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3205, 18 August 1915, Page 57

NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

AUCKLAND. The latest reports from Sydney indicate that the condition of Dr H. W. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, ia causing grave anxiety. Recent cablegrams announce that he is very weak and that there has been no improvement during the last few days in his condition, which ia regarded as serious An examination of No. 3 hold of the steamer Waimate (which struck bad weather between Liverpool and Hobart) shows that a large number of cases were pretty well saturated with sea water. The cargo in this hold consists of 145 tons for Auckland, 892 for Wellington, 7 for Lyfc* tenlton, and 664 for Dunedin. Probably the Dunedin cargo has suffered most. There will be no general average, the damage being hold to come under ‘‘perils of the sea” on the bill of lading. WELLINGTON. In the assault cases heard at Levin on the 9th the fine inflicted on R. Cameron was £2, not £2O as previously stated. A writ has been issued claiming £IO,OOO for alleged slander against W. A. Mowbray, merchant, Wellington, by F. F. Munro, merchant, Wellington. Two farmers at Otaki were fined £SO, the maximum penalty, for watering milk, which showed 36.3 and 21.8 per cent, of added water. At Gisborne a number of heavy fines were also inflicted. A dairy company was fined £4O, and three other vendors £SO, £3O (2), with costs. The Cabinet has authorised the erection of 100 workers' dwellings, involving an estimated expenditure of £50,000. At the time authority was applied for about 200 applications for dwellings had been received by the Labour Department from all parts of New Zealand. At present the department and its agents are engaged in making the necessary inquiries and arrangements with a view to proceeding with the building programme. Two men named Arthur Madden and Martin Cairns were charged before Mr D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., at the Upper Hutt Magistrate’s Court on the 11th with conveying liquor into the Trentham military camp. Both men admitted the offence, though they stated that they had no intention of selling the-liquor. Cairns also pleaded ignorance of the regulation. The Magistrate imposed fines of 20s in each cate, with 7s costs. The Maori troupe, numbering 20, which went to the Panama Exhibition, returned from San Francisco by the Mararaa on the 12 th. The Defence Department has called _ on Major Corrigan (Wellington), Major Ringland (Napier), Major MTviught (Wanganui), and Major Osborn Lilly (Wairarapa), all of the reserve of officers, to undertake administrative duties. The Manuka, which arrived on the 16th inst. from Sydney, brought £IOO,OOO. The Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce has decided to organise ari exhibition to be held in Wellington about February for the purpose of advertising goods manufactured by Great Britain and countries now allied with Britain in the war against the Teutonic nations. American manufactures will not he accepted. The exhibition will last about a week. Temuera Tokaitua, a Maori minister from Otaki, came up for sentence before the Chief Justice on Saturday on a charge of having married Europeans and therein committed a breach of the Marriage Act. Mr E. F. Hadfield applied for the release of the prisoner on the grounds that he had not been validly committed in that his plea was not one of guilty as shown on the proceedings. His Honor said he would not uphold the application. He told prisoner that he had done a very foolish thing, hut he would be discharged. WEST COAST. Several cadets were fined the maximum sum for failing to render personal service. One was fined £lO on two charges. The principal defence was that the lads were 18 years of age and desired to transfer to the Territorials. The week’s output of coal from Greymouth was : —Paparoa, 926 tons 19cwt j Point Elizabeth, 1768 tons 6cwt; Liverpool, 2006 tons Bcwt; Blackball 5745 tons scwt; Brunner, 174 tons 2cwt; —total, 10,621 tons. CANTERBURY. The council of the South CanterburySociety, resolved on the 12th to prohibit worm "and creeper fishing throughout the district on the ground that worm fishers depleted the rivers of big fish.