NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2529, 17 May 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION."! AUCKLAND, May 16, A body supposed to be that of a shipping clerk natre.l Hunter was found in the water near the South Head. PATEA, May 16. Poharama, the Native who stabbed hia wife and another Native at Waitotara pah on Sunday, was tried by the Natives, who inflicted punishment on him by dropping boiling water on his face, and applying burning rags to his back and spine. WELLINGTON, May 16 Walter Wiltshire Vaute, who shot himself last night, died at two this mon ing. A nautical Court inquiry into the collision between the Ladybird and Wokatu is proceeding. The enquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between the steamers Ladybird and Wakatu, in the harbor on the 26;b ult., commenced this morning. The officers of the former vessel, and the night watchman on tho wharf, were examined. The Court adjourned until to-morrow. Five more witnesses are to be called, and it is not likely that the enquiry will conclude before tomorrow afternoon.

In reply to a deputation the Colonial Secretary said that the usual grant of £ for & would bo made in respect to subscriptions in aid of a Home for Friendless Women. WESTPORT, May 16, James Johnson was to day found guilty of perjury, and sentenced to twelve mouths imprisonment. Captain Baacancl, of the barque Oelestis, has been appointed harbor-roaster of Timaru, DUNEDIN, May 16. Subscriptions are already being received here through the press to any fund which rosy be raised in aid of the families of the victims of the Timaru disaster. The Harbor Board to-day appointed Mr G. M. Barr engineer, in place of Mr Simpson. Tbe Volunteer Lind Claims Commission, now sitting here, will proceed to Oamaru on Friday, and to Christchurch on Saturday. Two boys wore in a boat in the harbor today. One fell out in trying to recover an oar ; the other graeped him, but was himself pulled in. A man named Phelan was passing o n “ swam out about twenty-five yards, saving both boya.