NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2235, 27 April 1881, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PEBSS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, April 27. Fijian. The Southern Cross has arrived from Fiji. The nows by her is unimportant. Where’s Wilberforce? A charge o£ kidnapping a Native of Pentecost Island, brought against Captain Gibbs, of the schooner Winifred, has not concluded, but the Government-Agent and the officers of the ship have given evidence that the Natives were obtained legitimately. Sugar. A largo sugar mill is being erected at a cost of £30,0C0 at Suava Point. Hunt Abandoned. Orders given to the Customs authorities not to clear any vessel on which W. G. Hunt was a passenger have been revoked. Naval. The Wolverine and flying squadron go to Wellington, not to Auckland. WELLINGTON, April 27. Evasion of Taxes. Ernest Greatrex, representative of Greatrex and Son, saddlers and ironmongers, of Wellington, and Wallsell, England, has been summoned for not furnishing Property Tax returns, as required under the Property Tax Act. This is the first case laid by the Commissioner, and will be heard in a day or two. Death through NegligenceAt the inquest on Wm. Peckham, the jury returned a verdict that he came by his death through the upsetting of the cart. They censured the contractors for bridgerepairs for not haring the road properly lighted.