New Zealand.

Southland Times, Issue 14733, 31 August 1900, Page 2

New Zealand.

[Per Pbess Association ] AUCKLAND, Aca. 30. The Kohukohu hotel and sstore, owned by D. B. Wallace, have been destroyed by fire, part of the stock, being saved. Insurances : ouilding, £500 in the Commercial Union ; store stock. £500 in the Guardian office ; hotel stock, £300 in the Nonrich Union. William Richardson, temf terance orator, has been sent to gaol for not paying the fine recently imposed on him for witnessing a signature on an electoral form without having seen it signed. WELLINGTON, Ace. 30. The General Manager of Kail ways ha« received a telegram from the Cape Railway Department asking for a price for the beet N.Z. coal, as supplied to the Navy, delivered at Capetown ; what cargo could arrive, and the quantity per month tor use on the railways. Mr Ronayne has a*ked coalowners to supply quotations. Another phase of the famous tharwonian case will be entered upon at the civil session next week. Margaret Hicks is suing T. V, Byrne, Mayor of Kumara, for £500 for slanderous epithets alleged to have been to her by defendant at the time of the occurrence. NELSON, Aug. 30. Considerable dissatisfaction is expressed with the inadequacy of the reforms suggested in the Stoke School Commission's report, and a public meeting in connection with tho matter is called for Monday. Mr Geo. Palmer, M.A., Dunedin, has been appointed an assistant master in Nelson College. In connection with the Stoke Industrial School, and at the order of Mr J. Hutcheson, M.H.R., a duplicate has been made by the maker of the original chains which were used to put round the boys 1 an Ides. It is of quarter inch coil clwin, which is heavier than a plough or trace chain. Each final link is inserted through one of the links and fastened with a padlock. The weight is 3 pounds 5 ounces, inoluding the ]>adlocks, MASTERTON, Aug. 30. The five-years-old Bon of Duncan McGregor, of Hanaia, was killed through a buggy in which, with his parents, the child was riding, being overturned. CHRISTCHURCH, Atm. 30. Final of the ladies' golf championship between Miss Rattray, of Duuedin, and Mrs Wilder, of Christchurch, whs won by the former by one point. Mitss Rattray becomes possessor of the champion cup, having won it three years in succession. ASHBURTON, Aug. 30. Edward Stephens, late manager of the Ashburton Building Society, wua brought before Captain Wray, S.M., to-day and charged with stealing £4443., aud was again remanded till 7th September. , T . ' , NAPESR, Aug. 30. ' Nelson Bros, have received a cable from the C.C. and D. Company to the efloct that the frozen meat market prices we unchanged. rrv. „,. • DUNEDIN, Aug. 30. Ihe Chairman of the Benevolent Institution states that there are 27 outdoor and 21 wdooj Obuese, costing tie MUtioa. £800

a year. The receipts from the Chinese by way of collections in 1897 was £142 9s. An appeal will again be made direct to the Chinese. The Christian Endeavourers held a mass meeting to protest against Sabbath desecration, which the meeting alleged is on the increase. A resolution was carried asking young people not to U9e trams, etc., on Sundays, also one protesting against the introduction of strong drink into the King Country. The criminal sittings concluded to-day, Frederick Weblake and James Mahoney. charged with receiving stolen goods which had Framed the basis of a prosecution at the Srevious sittings, were acquitted. James ohnston was also acquitted of a charge of assault and robbery. Th^ question of duty to be charged having been referred to the Premier, he has decided to take the view most favourable to importers, and has directed that the rate of duty, if any, is to be determined by the duties and exemptions in force at the time when a perfect entry was made, or the owner claimed to take his goods out of the control of the Customs. William O'Connell, miner, from Cromwell, who was in town for medical advice and staying at Haydon's Hotel, fell out of a window to the pavement, a distance of 30 feet, during the night. The body was found at five o'clock this morning, life being extinct. He was aged 66, married, and had a family. At an inquest it transpired that O'Connell, who was subject to giddiness, was walking about in a dazed condition. At a meeting of ex-High School boys it was decided to erect a tablet in the school giving the names of all the old pupils who had gone to the war in South Africa ; also to erect a special tablet to the memory of the late Captain Harvey (Fourth Contingent) from subscriptions from masters and old boys and outsiders, if offered ; an;- surplus to be devoted to founding a Harvey scholarship or bursary. At an inquest at Palmerston, touching the death of Robert L. H. Jamieson,the railway porter who shot himself, a verdict of " suicide while temporarily insane" was returned.