NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1581, 14 March 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEE pkkss agency.] Tau eanga, March 13. Captain Worsp has been down in the diver's dress to inspect the hole in the Taupo’s after hold. He says it is two feet six each way. He got his hand through and took a mnssel off the rocks. It is now filled with flour bags and blankets, well trampled dowm, and she will most likely be off to-morrow. , , Napier, March 13. The body of a man has been found near Givavas station, which has been looked for some time. It appear) that when on the verge of delirium tremens ho stopped at an accommodahouse on February 24th, and the proprietor gave him a bottle of chlorodyne. The bottle was afterwards found in his swag. The body was found by the police yesterday. The name of the deceased is supposed to be Blair, one of a firm of that name in business in Melbourne. I FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. ] Tima RE, March 13. Shields, who was injured by the Albury train last night, died this morning. An inquest was held on him this afternoon, when the evidence went to show that deceased was under the influencc of liquor at the time, and that the driver of the engine was in no way to blame for the accident. A verdict to this effect was returned. The following are the names of the Timaru cricketers to play in the match against Christchurch on Monday D’Kmden, Hamersley, A. and M., J. Godby, Fowler, Neilson, Jones, Kothwell, Blundell, C. Perry, and Cook. They go up by express train on Saturday. A boy named Currie was kicked in the face yesterday by a horse, and is expected to COW* pletoly loss his eyesight.

j*&*'***v,**mm a u - -- - M i.wWttx Hokitika, March 13. Isaac Wood, a seaman on board the steamer Waipara, was washed overboard while crossing the bar inwards from U reymouth. He leaves a widow and three children, the youngest an infant. Dunedin, March 13. The Otago Licensed Victuallers subscribed .£156 to the Kaitangata fund. The Harbor Board make a strong reply to the statement that the Hinemoa touched the bar on going out last trip. The Board reports: — “ When an officer of the Government officially expresses an opinion, as Captain Fairchild has, that the bar is filling up, the Board claims that in justice to it and the Government, the Colonial Marine Engineer should be in tructecl, without delay, to tost the accuracy of the souudings and surveys by the Board’s officer, so that the true state of the case may be arrived at. Tho Board is not prepared to be scared from its carefully considered plans for improvement by every ad captandnm statement proceeding from influences and motives.” . , The Harbor Master demands an enquiry into the stranding of the Argonaut, and has suspended Coxswain Miln. Invercargill, March 13. Mr Fox gives a temperance lecture in a fortnight. ________________