NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2330, 21 September 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

I FEB FBEBS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, September 21. Tawhaio's Meeting. Tawhaio's meeting at Hikurangi commences ts-day. A large number of Natives will be present. Burned to Death. A little girl, the daughter of Mr Bell, a farmer of Te Kaho, Waikato, was burned to death. Her clothes caught while she was playing near where some fern was being burned off. Fiji News. The Southern Cross hes arrived from Fiji, and reports : The Detached Squadron arrived at Levcka on September 4th. The inhabitants exortad themselves to the utmost t:> entertain them. The local Cricket Club were beaten by the sque Iron cricketers, but the Levuka Rifle Association gained a victory over the visitors. The Court of Enquiry into the wreck of the, Meg Merrilles blamed Captain Hughes for keeping the vessel on the starboaid tick, instead of going round Rotumahi. The Natives are tired of annexation, pud are petitioning the Queen for a restoration of independence. The cocoanut groves at Suara have been devested by large insects which eat off the tops of the trees.

A number of laborers have ar.ived from New Hebrides for the Colonial Sugar Company.

Building is actively going on at Suara, the new capital. Mr Lambert, a member of the Roypl Yacht Squadron, has airived at Levuka, with his family, in an BCO ton yaoht. NELSON, September 21. the Small-pox Scare.

At the inquost yesterday touching the ceath of the child who died at the Hospital last night, and whj was reported to be suffering from small-pox, the medical testimony wri conclusive that this was not the caie, and a verdict was returned that " Death resulted from vaccine disease."