NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2247, 15 June 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[per press association.] AUCKLAND, Jane 14. Fortunate. Mr B. IT. Gribbon, a well-known Tongan trader, while endeavoring to get a good view of the Wangarei falls, fell over the cliff; thirty feet down he was caught in the brushwood, and his rescuers had difficulty in bringing him to the top. He has recovered. Smuggling. Adam Etnerl, Biohard Folinghorn, and William Morton, have been fined for smuggling, the two first £IOO and the latter £25, and costs incurred. The Whaling Industry. A whaling company now forming has bought the barque Especulador, to cruise off the New Zealand coast. CrimeThe criminal calendar will be cleared by Mr Justioe Gillies, who is expeoted in the Albion. The list consists of twenty-one cases, mostly light. WELLINGTON, June 14. The WeatherThe following is the weather exchange message :—Sydney, Tuesday evening.— The weather generally is fine in Australia, with the barometer at 30.1 at 9 a.m., but it has since been falling fast at Sydney. Death of a ChildA young child was found dead at Horokiwi under peculiar ciroumstances. The mother, Josephine Gormley, retired to bed with the child on Sunday night, and at 6 o'olock on Monday morning it was all right, but three or four hours later it was found dead. An inquest will be held. Crime. As yet only five cases are set down fo* the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court, None are of a serious nature. GBHYMOUTH, June 14. Lucky Miners. Last week four men at Seventeen Milt Beach obtained 17Jlbs. weight of gold (nearlj £BOO sterling) for one week's work. DUNEDIN, June 14. The Central Railway. A provisional committee has been formed of merchants and others to watoh over th< proceedings of Parliament relative to th< Otago Central Bailway. The Ohambero: Commerce meet the city members concerning it on Thursday. Recovery of Jewellery. The police to-day recovered £IOO worth of the jewellery recently stolen from Mr Hooper's shop in Ohristohuroh. The jewellery was found hidden in the sandhills at the Ooean Beach. The Missing Beer Stamps. It turns out that the stamps were washed off Mr Speight's casks of beer seized by the police yesterday.