NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2228, 19 April 1881, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

fPER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER, April 19. Little Sufferers. Two boys, between the ages of four and five years, children of Scandinavian parents, settlers in the Seventy-mile Bush, wandered into the forest, and were lost for four days and three nights. Search-parties went out in all directions. News has reached town that the children have been found terribly exhausted from thirst, hnnger and exposure. Fire and Water. At the fire-brigade competition yesterday between the Town and Port brigades, excellent time was made. The brigades divide the honors. GBEYMODTH, April 19. Latest Mews of the Murder Case. McGahey has been captured in the Ranges’ No farther particulars yet to band. INVERCARGILL, April 19. Fires.

The stable owned by Mr E. Spence, of Heddon Bnsh, was burned down. It was insured for .£2OO in the Standard.

At Winton, on Sunday, the Oddfellows’ Hall, Mr White’s (pastrycook’s) house, the stone Municipal Hall, and Mr B dley’s (chemist’s shop), were destroyed by fire The Corporation books and some other property were saved. The insurances on Mr White’s stock and effects were for £ 100 in the Norwich Union, and the honse for .£2OO in the same office. The Oddfellows’ Hall was insured for .£SOO in the same office, and Mr Bailey’s drags for £I2OO in the New Zealand. TIMAEU, April 19. Sad Career. At the Police Court this morning an elderly man named Wm. Oldfield Wadford, schoolmaster, of a respectable position in life, was sentenced to one month’s hard labor for stealing a gold chain from the hat of a laborer named Dennison. Curious. At Albnry a shed was found burned down on Sunday night. It was filled with grain and hay, the property of the ponndkeeper. The origin of the fire is a .mystery. The door of the shed was locked. It is singular that the old ponndhonse was burnt down on the same spot this time last year.