NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 21 July 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB I>BHSB ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, July 20. New Ferry Boat. The new North Shore Ferry Company awarded a prize of £3O to Mr Bailey, North Shore, for the best design for a ferry steamer, built on the American principle. The trip to ths North Shore is to bo done in six minutes. WELLINGTON, July 20 Whitelaw’s Case. The second trial of Whitelaw will come before the Supreme Court to-morrow. The Marine VolcanoToe Marino Department have received the following telegram from Captain Fairchild : “ There is no mistake about the volcano reported by Captain Anderson near Channel Island, off Capo Colville. We found it without any trouble. The water is boiling up like a spring for a space of about one hundred feet. Channel Island bears N. by W., three-quarters of a mile. The water is muddy and yellow. The yellow water drifts away with the tide, and is in shape very much like the tail of a comet. There is no change in sounding. The least water wo found was twenty four fathoms, so that navigators need not bo afraid to go their usual tracks when passing there. I took the Stella on the spot, and dropped the lead into the centre of the boil, and then found twenty-four fathoms. I left the lead down as long as I could, to see if it would come up hot, but it came up quite cold, and brought up broken shells.” TIMAKU, July 20, CoursingThe final corn-sing meeting of the South Canterbury Coursing Club began to-day, despite the pouring rain. None of the events were concluded. OAMARU, July 20, Cowardly Assault. Two women, named respectively Mary Ann Sullivan and Mary Duggan, and a man named Crawford, entered the house of a married woman, named Lees, yesterday afternoon, and demanded money. On tho latter refusing they kicked and thrashed her till she became insensible. They then took £2 out of a box and left. The injured woman was taken to the Hospital, The culprits were brought up this morning at the Court and remanded, DUNEDIN. July 20. Spurious Tea. The Mayor has received a letter from the Board of Health at Melbourne that some spurious tea, recently landed there by the steamer Ocean, from China, had been forwarded to Dunedin. The Collector of Customs ia trying to trace where it has gone. Verdict against the Crown. The case Mercer and wife v the Queen concluded to-day. The verdict was for £750 for damages sustained by plaintiffs being capsized out of a buggy through a telegraph wire being left across a road Ly the workmen engaged in repairing it. Presentation. The Oarisbrook Cricket Club have forwarded to Mr F. Fulton, formerly their captain, who is now settled in Hawke’s Bay, a handsome gold watch as a mark of esteem. He was an enthusiastic supporter of tho game and the originator of the Oarisbrook Club.