NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2395, 6 December 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

LPBR PBRBBJ ASSOCIATION. J AUCKLAND, December 5. Pound BrownedA young man named Alexander Donaldson was drowned at the Bay of Islands yesterday. The Drink AgainA man named John Smith was found dead in bed in tho Shakespeare Hotel. He was in liquor the previous evening. A bottlo containing muriatic acid (marked "poison") was found in his room, but it was ascertained that he used it in his trade as a gilder. At the inquest, a verdict of death from congestion of the brain was returned. Deceased leaves a wife and several ohildren at Napier. The Mail Boat. The mail steamer City of Sydney passed the Bay of Islands this forenoon for Auckland. The Suspected Burglar. Fred. Plummer was brought up at the Police Court and remanded to Friday, when it is understood that two cases of sending threatening letters and three oharges of burglary will be proceeded with. WELLINGTON, December The Rain. Heavy rain fell this afternoon, and wai much needed. LegalThe Appeal Court was occupied the whole day hearing the case W. L. Rees v Barker (Napier), a motion for a new trial. Judgment was reserved. KUMARA, December 5. Miners' Meeting. A large meeting of miners was held here on Saturday evening to urge on the Government the necessity of at onoe constructing the seoond Kapitea dam, for whioh money was voted last Parliament. The quantity of water at present available is quite inadequate to the demand. *

DUNEDIN, Dooember 5,

An Accident.

Mr Godso, a contractor, was drowned today by falling off the railway bridge crossing a portion of the harbor at Pelichet Bay. Another Embezzler.

Henry Beveridge Mcintosh, lately manager of the Walton Park Coal Company, was committed for trial to-day on two oharges of embezzlement. Other charges are pending. Customs Seizure.

The Customs officers seized some goods on to-day on the wharf, in regard to whioh it was alleged that the owners gave an under estimate of value.