NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4061, 7 June 1882, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FttOM OUB OWN CORRE3POiS Y DKKT.]

LICENSING IN AUCKLAND.

Auckland, June 7. Port Albert Licensing Committee unanimously refused the application for a publican's license for the Battley Hotel. This closes the only hotel in the district. The Cambridge Lioensing Committee refused to grant a license for Gan's Working Mens' Club, though the poll of ratepayers was three to one for an increase of licenses.

[PER UNITED PHESS ASSOCIATION.]

GOAL COMPANY AT PrOTON. Blenheim, June 6. The promoters' shares in the Shak» speare Bay Coal Vline, near Picton, have been readily taken up, and are now quoted at a premium of £15. It is proposed to float a company with 00,000 shares to work the mine. PRESENTING FIREARMS AT ANOTHER. Christchtjkch, June 0. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, this morning, a youth named Bathurst [ Noel was charged with having assaulted and presented a revolver at a man named Dawkins, at the Exhibition. The evidence showed that a dispute arose as to the price of some articles on Dawkin's stall. The latter called Noel a liar, at the same time ordering him away. Noel refused to go, when Dawkins knocked him down, and then No6l presented a revolver at him, but was prevented from using it. Noel, in defence, pleaded serious provocation, and said that having lately been severely bitten by a dog, he had since carried a revolver to protect himself. The statement about the dog was shown to be correct, and the Bench, remarking that Dawkins had been the aggressor, dismissed the case, but confiscated the revolver. A SHOOTING CASK. Last night a man named David McNiven was arrested ior shooting with a revolver at John Granville at Toomber's boarding-house. Jealousy is said to have been the cause of the offence. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Dunkdin, June 7. Through a landslip in a cutting near Shag Point, a mixed train from Oamaru to Palmerston went off the line. The engine and six waggons went off, but nobody was kurfc-