NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2315, 5 September 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PHB 3?EEfIS ABSOCIAIIOK.] AUCKLAND, September 3. Fatal Accident. A fatal accident occurred at Kihikihi to George McKeon, a carter, employed by Wm. Carboy, who wag killed whilst engaged in driving his team. A Steeple House. The St. Andrew’s Presbyterian congregation has resolved to erect a church steeple 100 ft. high. Caution. John Harrington, Waitakeri, aged sixtyeight, while stooping at a fire rubbing kerosene on his chest, for asthma, accidentally set fire to the kerosene, and his skin was immediately covered with flames, and terribly burnt before they were extinguished. Shareholders’ Money. The Loan and Mercantile Company has presented a fifteen-guinea cup for the best ten long-woolled hoggetts at the Agricultural Shovr, irrespective of breed. Narrow Escape. The Kate McGregor narrowly escaped wreck at Suva by going on a reef. She lost her kedge, two warps, and a portion of her false keel in getting off, WELLINGTON, September 3. False Newsmongers. The Government received a telegram from Purgarehu to-day to the effect that the alarming and sensational reports about the Natives fencing are unfounded, and that whatever may be done as regards fencing the Natives are very civil and good tempered, and it is understood further that Te Whiti has ordered the men not upon any account to use violence. Mr Moorhouse. There is no change in the health of Mr Moorhouse, M.H.B. Fatal Accident. A fatal accident occurred to a child five years of ago at the Lower Hutt yesterday. The accident took place during the unloading of a dray containing furniture. One of the ropes being loosened a large table fell from the top of the dray, and struck Mr Green's little son on the head. The child was killed instantaneously. Looking Up. The report of the Albion Gold Mining Company at Tera whiti is very favorable, and shares are now held for seven shillings. DUNEDIN, September 4. Singular Accident. A man was picked up in Cumberland street this morning dead, having fallen over the cliff behind the First Church on to the footpath. His name is Watt, and from letters found on him ho is believed to come from near Christchurch, as he was apparently known to Mr Bayley, hotelkeeper, Dunsandel. A letter from his uncle, McGregor Watt, was also found on him. Seamen Missing. The mate and cook of the Mary Ogilvie, lying in the stream, are believed to have been drowned while going off in the boat lost night. The mate’s clothes were found in the boat, so it is thought that the cook fell over and the mate went after him to save him, both being drowned.