NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2259, 29 June 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBH PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, July 28. Accidental Death Samuel Thornelly, a carter, was killed at the Mount Eden gravel pits by a fall of earth. He leaves a wife and children. Death in QuarantineHenry Fanoonrt, a quarantined passenger by the outward mail steamer, died at the quarantine station from dysentery. EducationalThe Board of Education having removed Miss Minnie Whyte to the Grafton road public school without reference to the committee, the latter protested that, under the Act, they must be consulted, and instructed the head master not to recognise the lady as a teacher of the school. FireA fire occurred at Halley's brewery, Cambridge, but was got under, The stock was insured for £3OO in the North British and the building in the South British. Hew CandidateMr Q-. O. J. Aldorton, ol the “Northern Advocate,’’ has already issued an- 'address to the electors of Marsdon, notifying his candidature at the next election. Larceny. A man named Foster has admitted having stolen a cashboi containing £3OO from the Kamo Hotel. A Costly Inquiry. The Grammar School inquiry cost £BOO, including the retiring allowance to Mr MeBae. EducationalIn reply to a request from the Grammar School Board that the Government should purchase the College buildings ns a Girls’ High School, the Government state that they have no funds available for,the purpose. StockMr Miller, of Victoria, was a through passenger by the mail steamer, with a famous Kentucky trotting stallion. NEW PLYMOUTH, Juno 27. Harbour ImprovementsAt the Harbor Board meeting this afternoon the public works committee brought up a report in which they recommended that Mr Been* services be dispensed with as Harbor Board engineer, and that he be paid six months’ salary in lieu of notice. Mr Ehine, who has lately come from Scotland, was appointed to take charge of the works, and the chairman was instructed to make application to the Government for one of its engineers to be consulted from time to time as the works are proceeded with, WELLINGTON, Juno 28. Imported Cattle The Government have received information from the Agent-General to the effect that he is having a fresh circular distributed amongst stock owners calling their attention to the provisions of the Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1873, ond more especially to the necessity of obtaining a clean certificate before shipping stock to the colony. KUMAEA, June 28. Return to Duty. Mr B. J. Seddon, M.H.8., proceeded to Wellington’this morning, having been detained by severe sickness in his family. GAM ABU, June 28. Heavy Swell. The heaviest sea that has been experienced here for the last ten or eleven years rolled into the bay to-day. The breakwater is not. supposed to be injured, but a number of labourers’ tenements, built close to the beach, were washed away or destroyed. Two fishermen’s boats are in the oiling, but are safe, i:s the sea is not breaking a great distance out. DUNEDIN, Juno 28. Our IndustriesA private company is etarting in Dunedin to manufacture Portland cement. ScholasticOne hundred teachers attended the annual conference to-day.