NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6499, 26 December 1881, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

:Pn Puns A ssociATtov.j *ACCELAHD, Dec. 24. A mss cased Harry donee waa burned te dntb a! Whsagapoa an a budding called the Panin Restaurant. Biehard Bast, far feloniously receiving sides good* frost John Arnoeleis, was sen* tensed to six months with hard labour. The polios arrested Frederick Zone, searched his bouse, and found two out loads of lines, stolen from clothes* lines, and £lO worth of hoots and shoes, shoemaker*# tools, An, token from tho premises of Messrs Garrett. A lad named Battarwoik fell over a cliff at ledges Bay, while gathering Christmas towers, and was seriously injured. HEW PL* MOCHL Dto. 24 The Crenot correspondent to the Taranaki JfemU writes—“l hear that To Whitt, through hit con (who visited his father in gaol), has ordered all Halites back to Pari* toko.” The Entires who gave me this infer* salioo,cannot oay when they ere to go back; but it la evident that Te Whits is in com* acmcatioa with his people. WELLINGTON, Bao 24 A heavy shock of earthquake wae felt hero at nine uinutos to deveatoit eight. It was of long duration, tho direction being north to earth, and was accompanied by a loud mu wag noise. Govenneat have received the following lakgram “ Auckland: Tawhino writes that he te earning to Alexandra, to act m Judge at Che sports and races on Monday next.” DDNEBIH, Bio. 24 Mr G. M. Bell has purchased the Waimea station, with 5000 acres adjoining, for £50,000. The excursion trains which left hm this nonung were fulL Arrivals by train from oS directions have been very numerous, as is malt of cheap fame. The weather is very sultry. DOHIDUf, Bso. 35, Captain MDismid, of tho brigantine Fsiriie, from Sydney, died very suddenly mi Saturday afternoon. He was having a meal ta the eoMtt when he euddenlv fell forward on his knees and expired ioa ebort time. The emue of death was apoplexy.

[«OM oxm oww ooßsuterotrsnstr.J DCiraDnf, Die. u. from esgalrlM I learn that the abaft of the refrigerating machine on the ship Dunedin is nearly completed. AU the cargo has been landed and disposed of. No precautions are to be taken against an accident occurring again, except 'that as the former accident oceamd through a Saw 'la the theft, particular attention is paid to making the new one trusty.