Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 156, 27 October 1896, Page 2

Interprovincial News.

The large residence at Paparoa Auckland, of Mr M'Carroll, J.P., was burned to the ground on Saturday night. The cause of the lire is unknown. The place was insured for £ISOO, including furniture. It is said to be the finest residence north of Auckland. Mr J. W. Prime, aged 68, residing at Mangere, Auckland, while struggling with a calf in the stockyard, dropped dead from heart disease. Lady Glasgow, though still very weak, is out of danger. The Governor recently received from England intelligence of the death of Lady Glasgow's father, Sir Edward llunter-Blair, Bart, of Blairquhan. A man named Charles Bowden was drowned 011 Saturday while crossing the Manawatu river near Palmerston. The deceased was attempting to ford his dray and team of two horses when they were swept down the river. The body has not yet been recovered. Deceased was 28 years of age. At a meeting of the Wellington regatta committee yesterday Saturday, January 23rd, was selected as iiie date for the regatta. The following draft programme was drawn up :—Exhibition senior fours, senior doublo sculls, senior pairs, senior sculls, ladies' plate, junior out-rigged fours, maiden clinker fours, and junior double sculls. The question of alloting prize money was held over until the report of tho canvassers had been received. The following dates have been arranged for the Australian Eleven tour : —Auckland, November Gth, 7th, and 9th; Wellington, November 12th, 18th, and 1-lth ; Southland, November 18th, 19th, and 20th ; Otago, November 21st, 23rd, and 2ith; and Canterbury November 26th, 27th, and 28th. An effort will be made to get the manager to delay the departure of the team so as to allow of a New Zealand representative match to be played 011 November 30th and December Ist and 2nd. Mrs Hobonet, wife of the station cook at Glenmark, was drowned in a fish pond on Saturday evening. Sho went for a walk with her daughter, a child of six, and sat down near the pond and sent the child toHwr father for a bottle of herbal beer. She kissed her and said good-bye, and told her to kiss her father a good-bye for her mother. When the child got back she found her mother in the water, and her screams brought the gardener, who got the body out. At the inquest a verdict of found drowned was returned. At an inquest at Christchurch on S. •J. Denham, well known in swimming circles, who died suddenly, the meditw evidence showed that death was caused by heart ilisease. A two-year-old child named Morrow was drowned in a water-race yesterday at Cardrona (Otago).