INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 71, 15 December 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

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Wellington, Last night. Official telegrams report everything quiet on the West Coast. Tite Hoc. Mr. HoUeabon wifii take over the Mines Department, and the control "of the Education Department will be handed over to the Hon. Mr. Dick. - Mr. A.- T. Maginnity, Secretary of Telegraphs, has tendered his resignation, and it is stated that it has been accepted. A German named Li. Frecklor, a watchmaker, was drowned on Saturday morn* ing. He was seen standing near the edge of tbe breastwork, and shortly after calls' for help were heard, but he sank before he could be rescued. It is supposed that he intended to destroy himself owing to his inability to obtain work. An inqnest was held drain" tb» day, when & verdict of accidental drowning was returned. Dtjnedin, Last night. At Bannockburn some boys were playing in an old sluicing ground, when one, named Manson, got a pick and started picking under the hanging-face. A mass of earth suddenly fell, crashing him to pieces. A laa named Alfred Eisßlingbury wag shot accidentally by his brother when out rabbit shooting. , . At the inquest on the lad Kisslingbnry, who was accidentally shot, the jury •returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a rider to the effect tuat tue Government, should issue or institute a gun license, which would have - the effect of preventing, in a .great measure, if not entirely, .the sale of firearms to boys. The proposal to send an Australian football team to England is assuming a definite shape. It ift said thai H».mm&?fc>n, Murray, and Sweet, all of Dunedin, are suggested as suitable representatives of Otago. The northern clubs are to be invited to nominate their own -men. New Plymouth, Last night. Yesterday afternoon a woman was brought from Omata to the nospital, and on arrival was found to be dead. Deceased appears to have been taken ill on Thursday, but no medical aid was sought till yesterday, when too late. The woman was the wife of John Greig, late of Hokitika. As she was previously in good health, it has been considered necessrry to hold an inquest on the body. Grahamstown, Last night. One hundred weight of picked specimens and 35cwt of quartz, from the leader of the prospectors' claim at Te Aroha, yielded 19iozs. of gold.. There are many rumors of other claims getting gold, but none show any quantity of golden stone. The .prospectors are putting in a drive to cut tiie leaders at a lower depth, and intend sinking a winze on the special leader. Many business places have been •rectad, I>ti± there is GOXErpEuratively little mining work done on the field aa jet. ' The warden's opinion is that the goldfield j will extend over a large area, even into the blocks included in Patetere. Several claims have been formed into limited companies, and scrip issued. Greymodth, Last night. An accident occurred on the lead at the Seventy-mile -beach this morning, by' which a miner named Michael Kerry lost his lift. It is conjectured that the giving way of the false set of timbers was the cause; of the disaster. Every assistance was rendered by the men, but life was extinct before the body could be released. • The result of the oleaning up of the top plate of the Golden Fleece Quartz Mining Company, Eeefton, for the week ending Saturday, 11th instant, was 2G3ozs. from 130 tons of stone. Chbistchubch, Last night. Another Maori murder has been committed at the Chatham Islands. A Maori named Wbarapa killed his wife, a European, whose maiden name was Susan Snoswell. She was niece of Thomas' Snoswell, of H.M. Customs. She went to the Chatham Islands three years ago as servant to one of the squatters' families there, and married Wi Wbarapa about 18 months ago. She waa about twenty years of ag , and Wi Wharapa is about twentyeight, and was one of the principal men on the island, and very well off. Jealousy is supposed to have been the causa. The murderer has been arrested, and was brought to Christohurch by the schooner Omaha, which also brought first news of the murder, which was committ'd on November 19th. Deceased was well known in Christchurch.