Interprovinical News

Hastings Standard, Volume VI, Issue 1640, 1 October 1901, Page 2

Interprovinical News

[by telegraph.] AUCKLAND* October 1. Sailed—Zealandia, foe the South. Passengers for Napier; Misß Green; Mrs Clatworihy; Messra Davis, Pearce, Bee, Ryan (2), Lindsay, LongdilU, Clatworthy, and Walker. NEW fiLYMOUTH, October 1. The Customs returns for this port during the September quarter totalled £6313, as compared with £4624 for last year. WELLINGTON. Ootober 1. The Colonial mail which left Melbourne on the 28th August, arrived in London on the 29 th September, one day early. MJriEjQKfc October I. The shareholders of the Otamt, i defunct Company, hare decided i o sue the directors for damages on account of the alleged maladministration o£ the liquidator retained. GISBORNE. October I. James Bertie, a survivor of the Whakapai wreck, reached Poet Awanui this morning. He was in a greatly exhausted state when pulled out of the water. The cook, Harry Millar, was the last to be washed off the vessel, and, clinging to a spar, drifted within twenty yards of the boach. A native swam out to save him, but when close to him he disappeared. Bertie states that before the capsize occurred the vessel became so full of water that it was quite unmanageable. She drifted into the passage between East Island and the mainland, and Capaia Bonner, fearing she wonld go on the rocks, dropped anchor. Then, as she swung round a heavy sea caught her and* turned her over. Bertie was the first to ba washed off, and seized a piece of of wood, which assisted him ashore. NAPIER. Ocio.v i, The Compensation Court's in* the Kumeroa case gives the elcum&uta £7 15s per acre. The Gove rome at oflered £'o 103 per acre.