NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2279, 22 July 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PIIFB3 ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, July 21. Resignation. Mr J. C. Firth has resigned his seat at the Waste Lands Board, owing to Major Atkinson’s recent declarations in the House respecting the Waste Lands Boards, Prospecting for Minerals. The Waste Lands Board gave Mr Christie a license to prospect the Government lands at the Bay of Islands for minerals other than gold. Singular FatalityA young French woman, named Emily Duisire, lately arrested and discharged for stealing kauri gum, died in the hospital. Her husband came to the hospital and died as her corpse was being removed for burial. Industrial EnterpriseThe Auckland Fibre Manufacturing Company has been formed for manufacturing rope twine, matting, and twine for string binders. The capital is £25,000. French Colonising. The schooner Sovereign reports that tho French have annexed Baiatea, but the native islands of Boabara and Huitawa declined the French proposals. Caution to SmokersJohn O. Hilman, a public school teacher, has died in the hospital from cancer in the jaw acquired by smoking. The Telephone. Additional subscribers are coming into the telephone exchange. WELLINGTON, July 21. Whitelaw Convicted. At the Supremo Court this afternoon Whitelaw was found guilty of ill-treating a lunatic patient, and the Judge inflicted a fine of £SO, or six weeks’ imprisonment. GREYMOUTH, July 21. Gold ExportThe gold shipped hero to day for Melbourne, per Hero, amounted to 11,891 ounces, value £43,568. The Bank of New Zealand rent £22,297, tho National Bank £10,115, the Union Bank £6212, the Bank of Now South Wales £4000; £944 was sent by Chinese. The Storm. The weather continues very wet and stormy. No floods are reported in this district. Coursing. Tho coursing meeting concluded to day. Mr Thompson’s Don Carlos and Bonnie Scotland divided tho first and second prizes in the Cup, and Mr Butler’s Scamp won the St. Leger. Horse were very plentiful. A Hardship. DUNEDIN, July 21. When the seamen of the Charles Worsley were released from the quarantine island the captain refused to take them on board, os a case of measles existed on the island in the keeper’s family. One of the men therefore sued him for wages, but tho Magistrate held that under the Merchant Shipping Act no sufficient discharge had been proved, and although he admitted tho hardship, the case was dismissed. Stock. INVERCARGILL, July 21. The celebrated stallion Young Prince of Woles, which was shipped for Melbourne by the To Anau on Friday last, died on the voyage. The horse was bred by Mr L. Drew, of Skevington, Scotland, and had never been beaten either at homo or in tho colony. Ho was valued at £BOO, and was owned by Mr John Russell.