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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7542, 13 August 1886, Page 2

[PER UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, Thursday. The Wellington football team oaleav-' ing by the Tarawera to-day for Napier, were cheered by the. Auckland team on the steamor leaving' the wharf. M'Causland remains in Auckland on a holiday. The gate money at Itho matcli amounted to over £300, . . . The American warship Mohican is expected from l f iji on the 20th instant. • Only 43 men have yet. accepted-em-ployment on the railway works, 'Woodlull, on the Kaipara line. There is employment there for double that number. Of four unemployed contracts let . by the Corporation one of the parties have never started work, though nearly a week ' ' has elapsed, and practically the contract has been abandoned. = . • ■ Wellington, Thursday. \ ■An apprentice named John Odtin, aged ' 10, was. Killed this afternoon by a fall of -- gravel in a tunnel at the rear of Mr Thomas Ballinger's gas-fitting, shop. The deceased was playing with, other lads, . when lie accidentally knocked away one of the props supporting the roof of the tunnel, and about 15 tons of. gravel'fell. Death was instantaneous. The other lads escaped. The owners of the steamer Mohaka, which collided witli the steamer Wailii in the Omalm river, Blenheim, and sank, are bringing an action against' tho Union Company, the. owners of the latter vessel, ■ claiming £625 damage. ' The case will be heard next week. ' ' . . ~ The Gazette notifies the appointment of' the Hon. Colonel . Brett' as Cojonel in, the . " New Zealand Militia. •, - The City Council to-night decided to postpone the consideration of the question of striking a rate for charitable institutions for three months; ' The Mayor to-night 'presented /the Humnse Society's bronze medal and certiA ficftte fb Mr Kenneth Hume, and the society's certificate to Mr F. W. Triggs, for saving life in tiie Wellington harbor. Ohmstchurch, -Thursday. •At the annual meeting of; tliOvN.Z. Shipping Company to-day the report and r balance-sheet wcro adopted. . The retiring. . directors were re-elected. Mr. Murray- . Aynsley presided, and: said the directors -were not favorable to transferring tho . nianagoment to London. Itwould not bo necessary to make a further call. on tho shareholders, unless unforeseen circumstances , arose! The directors conld not recommend a dividend, though £37,000 '.. had bceii made over.expenses. They pro- , ' ,; posed to strengthen the reserve and depre- -, ;..•: ciation accennt by £30,000, and carry for '•//."■ ward' £17,000; 'The 'statement- made in •'■'•*• Fair Play of June 18 as to mortgages 'on I '/-. .'. thpyfleet -were .incorrect,* and based on-'' 1 "'--, wrong information. . ■ .;. .-; . ,' ; i -^ At a special meeting of. Hie North Can-,- ;' tevbury Education Board held this after-. ,^; noon Dr Anderson, of Timaru, was ap- . " - pointed to tho inspectorship,! rendered' ',;; vacant by tho resignation of Mr W. Ledge. . y-, A-m'an named Kelly; who was injured at :". • ,".: Lyttelton on August" 3rd while' unloading' -;•_■„ a coal hulk, died yesterday of the.mjuries .^i ho received. : „■ .'.•■'.':•■'.,- '. ":'" DUNEDIN, Thursday.;' . -;""V ; At tho Police Court. to-day.Mary Ann ; ' ;U:,! Rutlierford was fined' £2o and William; £ -; ; Doones £20 ' for. sly-grog selling at Nen-',y::;f. jS; thorne. . •■-: •;-',- '':•;.''- !:.'-■"■'•?'• ''■ ' ; '^ '•s';s ■ Mary ' Jane Docherty. xyAs'jEommittcd^.^.,' for> tfial to;-day.pii.the clmfgo. pf -»f ttihg:^^ fire to the ' hpuse/of > LoiiiV;Th6mps'6n,n,t;vK|!'^ '■ Hillsi -lo. : ■'iThqmpsbn-'w.iis '. committed las^?|s week for. incitihg.and abetting -heiv^ : The;a^ evidenco.Vwas' -the ;'same^flSv tlmt:againstg| ; '^ I Tlmmp'sonj wiUi.th6*exc%^

own! in place of which a statement made ' byhertothe'pblicewasputin. ■■ During the passage of the barque Isabel from Now. York Mr Nicol, second officer, was carried overboard wkilo attending •to * t'lo halyards during a heavy sea on June ' 13th. The deceased was a son of a boot , . manufacturers Uunpdin, and served his' ' ' time dii one of the Albion Company's boats. A heavy slip todk place to-day on the i'altway a mile south of Goodwood. Tho - . Chflstchurch express train was not ablo to ■ get through, and the passengers hadto be' transferred to a train on the south side of the slip. ' „ . . i BiitJFF, Thursday; The stranded steamer Pelliam still re . bains in the same position as when she j first struck, and the sea has been smooth singe Tuesday morning. No further : (laifiage has yet been done. The coal is being lightered,, but, very slowly, only ■ ' about eighty tons being now landed.