INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 232, 8 April 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GREYMOUTH, April 4. The Golden Fleece Extended Quartz Miniug Company, Reeftou, cleaned tip to-day, getting lC7ozs. 7dwts. of retorted gold from 158 tons of quartz. The Just-in-Tiuao claim crushed 108ozs. lfldwts. of gold from 155) tons. NAPIER, This Day. Information has just boeu received that To Tinihunui, a nativo, was killed by his nophow, Taniati Puru, on Wednesday ovoning, nt Waiiunutaitini, near Awanui, East Coast. Tho parties had a fight, and acoiiKod hit hit) uncle with a blunt instrument, iniliiMing a wound which resulted in doitlh. Captain I'roeco loaves by next ttti'iuuor 1.0 hold an inquosfc. QUKRNSTOWN, This Day. 'IVlogmiUK rocuivod lioro state that Mr. WilloM., DiKtriot Surveyor, ongagod iv oimiplnlmg tho triaugulation of Martin's Hay dintnot, liuh just returned with tho iulullt^om'o Miat Mr. ltaymoiid (son of (luptiiiii Itiiymouil) lias boon drowned in l\yi»'n mwk, through tho ouuoo iv whioh ho wi>h uroHHing oapming. A man namod Kilty, who, liko Raymond, bulongod to l.lio Mii'voy jmrJy, wim also in tho onnoo when it cupHi/.cd, btit ho suoooodod in roaohing an island, whoro ho was found al'lor lining for flvo duys without food. CmUSTCrtURCir, Tina Day. Tlio weather is ovorciist. All the lioiHo.'t ongagod iv tho Great Autumn Mooting did good work on tho raco-course Uuh momiug. Emir Boy did an oxcollont gallop, and a commission having bouu oxocuted about him, he lias advanced iv tho betting to 4to 1 ; Natator and Libeller are still favorites at 8 to 1, Luro, Salvage, and Poet, 5 to 1. NonHonae is (lie favorite for the Champagne SLnkos at ii to 2. A man nauiod Albert William Tooms committod suicide with a revolver, on Thursday, near Kaugiora. Tbo supposed canflo was straitened circumstances. The schooner J^sio Hunter, laden from Thames, went ashore at Kaiapoi bar on Thursday. Possibly, she will be got off.

DUNEDIN, This Day. The Waitaki-Koputai inquiry was concluded on Thursday. The evidence was contradictory of that given by Birch, the purser, on Tuesday, the second engineer swearingthat hig^evidence was false* and that orders were obeyedx Bobert Eoss, donkey-engine man on board the Waitaki, who was in the engine-room, and part of whose duty it was to watch the indicator, corroborated the engineer, and in crossexamination said, " I was looking at the telegraph, when the second engineer called me down to look at it, because it was going at such a rate that he did not know what was the matter. Moffatt called out to rue, ' Come down ; stand by, Bob, because I don't know what they are doing with the telegraph, it is going like the pendulum of a clock.' Moffatt was driving the engine, and I stood looking at the telegraph until he sent me up for water. Ths reason I was called down was to look at the telegraph to see that no mistake was made." After hearing other evidence, the court found, " That upon evidence a prima facie case had been made out against Matthew Craig Moffatt, second engineer of the Waitaki," adding that collision occurred through his not answering orders telegraphed by the captain with promptness.