NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2582, 17 July 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

I PBB EBBSB AOSOOIATIOW.T AUCKLAND, July 15. A heavy spar, while being hoisted on board H.M.B. Nelson, slipped and fell upon the deck, doing considerable damage to the planking. The butcher, who was working near the spot when the accident happened, had a narrow escape; After Mr Jobson had examined the boiler of the ss. Ida at Buissll, the engineer waa attending to the same when ha slipped into the boiler, and it waa with great difficulty that ho was extricated. fctovere weather was experienced here, and a heavy thunder storm with rain and hail. July 16. H. M.S. Nelson left to-day, it is believed for the Bay of Islands, for 800 tons coal, but it is not definitely known, as she may go to. Whangarei-Kamo. She is reported ns going thence to Fiji, but the officers were very reticent as to the Nelson's movements after leaving Auckland harbor, and would furniah no information. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 16. At noon yesterday Titoko warn was liberated. Mr John Winks, of Hawera, being one of the bondsmen, and a Native named Mauaia deposited £250 in cash. Titokowaru signed bis own recognisances for £SOO, He was supplied by the Government with a new suit of clothes when ho put his prison garb off. WELLINGTON, July 15. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day the master of the steam launch Te Aro was fined £5 for overcrowding his vessel during the visit of the Nelson. The fund in aid of the auffarers by the recant Timoru disaster has reached £l6O. July 16. A high waterspout was observed off Lyall’s Bay yesterday. It was blown on shore and broke over the rooks. A heavy hailstorm was experienced yesterday afternoon, but the weather is now fine.

INVERCARGILL, July 15. Mr Thomas Arthur, late station-master here, and formerly traffic manager, was entertained at a supper by the railway employes last evening. To-night the Mayor, on behalf of the citizens presented him with an illuminated address bearing tbo signatures of ninety one buiinesa firms in town, accompanied by a weighty purse of sovereigns. The presentation waa made in the presence of a considerable assembly of citizens, several of whom took occasion to comment strongly in deprecatory terms upon Mr Arthur’s removal. The feeling of regret thereat was most sincere. A saloon passenger by the s.s. To Anau, named 8. Braohan, about fifty years of age who embarked at Port Chalmers, died about hal(-an-hour after the vessel’s departure from that port for the Bluff. The cause of death is not known. The deceased is supposed to have a relative in Dunedin. July 16. The new Wesleyan church, built at a cost of £I4OO, and to seat 500, was opened to day by the Bev, Joseph Berry, of Dunedin, The weather is exceedingly stormy, and a heavy gale from the west has been blowing all the afternoon, accompanied by heavy rain and thunder and lightning.