NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2699, 1 December 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

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NAPIEE, December i. The following are the vital statistics : Births 28, marriages 5, deaths 14. The Customs revenue has been £4466, of -which beer has paid £222. Not for years has the gaol been so empty. Only twenty-one hard labor men and six waiting for trial are incarcerated there. This time last year there were over sixty prisoners. Eain has fallen to the depth of over two and three quarter inches. WELLINGTON, December 1.

It is stated that Sir John Hall, in consequence of continued ill-health, will shortly resign his seat for Selwyn, and visit Europe, and will be absent probably for two years. Sir John and Lady Hall and family purpose leaving by the ship Lady Jocelyn, which is expected to sail from here in January next. The cases in connection with illicit distillation were further considered at the Magistrate's Court this morning, and adjourned until the 6th inst. DTJNEDIN, December 1. A three-roomed cottage in the East "Valley, occupied by Daniel Chambers, was burnt down last night. It was insured in the Standard office for ,£l7O. Additional particulars concerning the accident by which young Salmond, manager of the Brushware Company, lost his life at the Maori Kaik yesterday, state that he formed one of a picnic party. On arrival six of the party went to a hill about 300yds from the landing place, and sat down under shelter of its bush. The soil there is very crumbly. Two horses above were grazing, and it is supposed one of them shifted a boulder, which came tumbling down. A lady seated with Salmond called his attention to the danger, but had scarcely uttered the words when the stone struck him on the head with such force as to impel him fully 15ft down the hill. He expired five minutes afterwards. He was twenty-three years old, and unmarried. Mr Stout will contest the Peninsula. INVERCAEGILL, December 1. The following are the vital statistics for November :—Births, 56; deaths, 14; marriages, S

BADCIiTJTHA, December 1. Edith Ann Smith, servant to Mr W. Kussell, station-master' at Stirling, fell from a carriage when the train was nearing Stirling last night. She was conveyed to Balclutha, and attended by Dr. Smith, but she died at 2 o'clock this morning. An inquest will be held to-day.