NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2606, 14 August 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, August 14. In consequence of the statements made regarding Winiata'e execution, it i« stated that the sheriff has applied to the Government for an investigation

NAPIEB, August 14. Mark Martin, a man employed on the railway, died in the Hospital on Saturday night from injuries reoeived that afternoon. The deceased, while running alongside some tracks which were being shunted, tripped and fell between tho truck wheels, whioh mangled his left thigh and broke his right arm in two places. Eru Whatanui, who escaped from Wairoa lock-up a fortnight ago, and for whose capture the Besident Magistrate offered a reward of £5, was brought into town on Saturday by some Maoris in a buggy. The prisoner had his arms bound with flax, and his feet with a traoe chain. The prisoner had called Fative pah for food, end, being recognised, was at once seized and oonveyed here in the manner described. An extraordinary rain storm commenced on Saturday. The gale lasted from Saturday morning, over Sunday, till this morning, and the win fall amounted to four and a half inches. The rainfall this month to date is seven inches. The rivers are all high, but not overflowing, Tho lower parts of the town are flooded by storm water. WAKGANUI, August 14.

The total quantity of grain oarried on the Wanganui Bailway from January Ist, 1881, to July 31at, 1882, wan 20,148 sacks of wheat, 1971 sacks of barley and 4427 saoks of oatß. The total quantity of grain shipped from January lit, 1882, to July 31at, 1882, was 13,928 sacks

DUNEDIN, Augnst 14.

William Clark, laborer, died suddenly on Saturday from gasrites, caused by eating sour apples.