NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2024, 19 August 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PHSSS ASSOCIATION. | WELLINGTON, August 19. Police Items. The charge of perjury against a bailiff named Clifford was further remanded. A charge of embezzlement is being heard at the Masterton Court against Johnson, formerly assistant clerk to the Court there. INVERCARGILL, August 19. Eire. A fire at Mr Crosbie’s farm, Wyndham yesterday, destroyed two stacks of oats, also a steam threshing machine. They were nninlured

AUCKLAND, August 18. Death by Lock-jaw-

A distressing case of lock-jaw has terminated at Cambridge in the death of a young man named Hubert Montgomery. Ten days &zo he cut his big toe with an adze, and taking but little care, tetanus set in, and yesterday death ended his sufferings. Death of an Old Pensioner-

John Miller, an old pensioner, was found dead in his bed at his lodgings. The verdict of the jury was “Death from natural causes.”

NEW PLYMOUTH, August 18. The RowenaThe Rowena was hove ofi the heaoh at Waitara this morning, and is now lying in the river at the cattle wharf. She has received comparatively slight injury, and will leave for Manukau in all probability to-morrow or next day. WELLINGTON, August 18. To Melbourne and Syddey. The steamer Hero will include the port of Lyttelton in her round trip from Melbourne and Sydney.

DUNEDIN, Angnat 18. Dunedin Hardware Company. At the annual meeting yesterday afternoon of the directors of the New Zealand Hardware Company a dividend of S per cent, was declared.