NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2285, 29 July 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PJBB PUB SB ASSOCIATION.! 1 HAM.E3, July 29. Breach of the Beer Duty ActFresh informations have been laid against Ehrenfriod, a brewer, for breach of the Beer Duty Act. The Late Flood. Tho Government have advanced the local bodies £3OOO towerds repairing the damage caused by the late hood. TIMARU, July 29, CrimeAt the Magistrate’s Court this morning William Byers was charged with larceny of a sdver watch, valued at £9, at Waimate, and was remanded to Wednesday. William Brown, charged on remand of committing an unmentionable offence, was remanded to Temuka for Monday. WELLINGTON, July 29, Collision at the Heads. A collision occurred at the Heeds Int night between Captain Williams’ barque Australind and the brig Neptune, which were beating up tho passage. The Australind was on the port tack and the Neptune on tho starboard tack, and on nearing one another the wind baflhd. Both vrsaels went ; n stays, but there was not sufficient time to avoid a coJlnion. The bow of the Neptune struck the bow of the Australind. The latter had part of her head gear and stern carried away. The whole of the head gear, four or five stanchions, end the bows of the Neptune were carried away, no other damage being done. The capta>n of the Australind states that the col'ision was purely accidental, and would have been avoided had the wind not baffled.