INTERPROVINCIAL.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1080, 21 January 1879, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Napikx, January 18. Mr James Watt, l<*te of the firm of Watt Brothers, of the Spit, -lied at Louglauds this afttrooon. CHKISTCHUiCH, January 20. Mr H. M. Moore, who recently arrived from j Wellington to tdit the • GL.be/ died at an early hour this mo'ning ft\im rheumatic fever. He bad been ill about three weeks. The horses Leoni as and Javelin went north by the B.s. T upo on Saturday night. George Butler, a servant living at Kaiap >i, committed suicide by hanging himself yesterday. la the case Henderson v. the Napier Harbor Board, the evidence for the plaintiff closed on Saturday. Tbe defendant's case will be opened this morning. The amateur opera season closed on Saturday night, when a gold watch was presented to the lady who sustained tbe part of Martha. Two American engines were despatched South yesterday to work the express traffic between Dunedin and Invercargill. A passenger by the Mary Rannatyne, from the Coast, jumped overboard- on the voyage, and was drowued. His name i< Foßter, and he is supposed to have been of unsound mind. The first sitting of the fciitr ct Court here "wa^eld to-day. In theSupreroe Court the case of Henderson v. the Napier B ard continues, and is likely to last several days longer. ' OAMiKtr, January 20. . Four workmen employed by Mr W. Tescbemaker, of T lipo farm, went to bathe in the Kakanui river yesterday morning, one named O'C'uner, swam across the -stream, and on his way back the others saw him suddenly sink, as if he had, been seized with cramp. One of them rushed in to cave him, but O Connor clutched at him frantically, nearly dragging his friend to the bottom. The Utter got away from th* drowning man, and reached the shnire exhausted.' O'Connor ;by this time had sunk. Ipformatiun was given to the police, and the body was re covered the same afternoon by Constable D >novan, and brought into town. The Coronpr has

deemed it unnecessary to hold an icqnurt. The deceased will be but ied, today. He was unmarried, and had no friends in the Colony. Ik VBRCAKOILL 20. The men at the Nugget and Cornish Reef, on the Upper Sho*ov»r, have struck work. They bad been promised £4 per week — J6 .1 in oash, and the rrmvinder out of the gold. As the tunnel has anw been pierced for nearly 400 fee*, and no gold found, they refused to work any longer.