NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6751, 4 February 1892, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

(By Telegraph.) Drink and Suicide. AUCKLAND, Feb. 4. James Hughes, a storeman, committed suicide during last night or this m irning at his house in Vernon Street, Freeman’s Bay. He had been drinking since the New Year, and when he came home last night quarrelled with his wife. She went into the house of a neighbour and stopped all night. When she tried to get into the house this morning she found the door looked, and cn looking through a window saw her husband suspended by a clothes liar. Drowned. WOODVILLR, Feb. 4, A boy named Polglaieo was drowned in the Mangatainoko river yesterday while bathing.

The Inodus

WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. The arrivals in the colony last month exceeded the departures by 736.

Te Aro Railway

Ihe lowest tender received for the Te Aro railway extension is £6,600. Tbe tenders ranged up to £8,700. Union Bank-

The meeting of the Union Bank of Australia referred to in yesterday’s cables, was a half yearly meeting, and the profits. £106,030, are for the half year, not for a whole year.

Government Co-operative Stroke.

In answer to allegations of undue profit to contractors under the co operative system, the Public Works Department state that no contract isjjlet to any one man ; all are let to gangs, one member of each of which is elected bead-man to deal with the Department ; but all are on an equal footing of employment. Wages inen are not allowed under any circumstances on the Eketahuna section, which is regarded as typical. The rates for earth-work ranges from Is to Is 6d per cubic yard, and other rales in proportion. Picturesque AtlasThe Picturesque Atlas cases are still going on, with varying success, the company generally scoring a win in those cases in which delivery of any of the parts is proved, but where no delivery has been effected they lose, as the defence of misrepresentation is successfully set up. Licensing LawsThe Chief Justice and Judge Bicbmond to-day refused a writ of certiorari in the Wanganui Licensing cases. They held that the fact that teetotal members bad announced, before the election, that they intended to refuse certain licenses did not invalidate their position.

Land for SettlementINVERCARGILL, Feb. 4. Forty-two runs,|totalling|2B7,ooo acres, fall in Southland shortly, and will be opened up for settlement. A Long Session. The Supreme Court sittings open before Mr Justice Williams on Tuesday, and are expected to last three weeks. Sir R. Stout and Mr Solomon are retained in the sealskin oases.