INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 47, 22 September 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[Specially Telegraphed to Star.]

[PER UNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION.)

Wellington, Tuesday night. The San Francisco mail arrives here to-morrow.

Another body has been found in the harbor veiy much decomposed, and not yet identified. This makes four taken out within a few days. Two prisoners belonging to the hard labor gang had a few words this morning, and a fight ensued, resulting in a man named Murphy being sentenced to fourteen days' solitary confinement. Auckland, Tuesday night. Mr. G. M. Beed is on his way to the colony as the representative of a large and wealthy special settlement party, for whom he will select blocks of land in anticipation of their arrival. Mr. Beed will be in Auckland about the middle of October, and the first of the party numbering twelve or fourteen families, and bringing with them some sixty or seventy thousand pounds, will arrive at Auckland or Napier some time in December.

Gkeymouth, Tuesday night.

Five days' crushing of 140 tons of quartz from the Limited Alpine Company, at Lyell, yielded 4200z. amalgam from the top plates. The return from the top plates of the Golden Fleece Extended Quartz -mining Company, Reef ton, for the past two months, amounted to 6970z. of amalgam.

Hokitika, Tuesday night.

A youth named James Carr, eighteen years old, a junior clerk in the Union Bank of Australia, was fishing from the upper protective works on Saturday when he slipped into the river, and was drowned. His body was found on the north beach. An inquest was held, and a verdict of accidental death returned.

Mining matters at Mapourika are progressing favorably, though nothing "new has been discovered. Seven or eight parties are on gold, and others are progressing with their shafts and tunnels.

Dunedin, Tuesday night. Twice last night a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Gavingharu, a chemist, in Walker-street. The stock was considerably damaged by breakage and water. It was insured for .£550 in the Colonial and £100 in the Norwich Union Company. The building was owned by Mr. Blakeley, and was insured in the Royal for It was only slightly damaged.