INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 250, 19 May 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(from our own correspondent.)

OPUNAKE, This Day.

Full hopes are now entertained of Fowler's recovery under the skilful treatment of Dr. Alexander, to whom is duo through assiduous care, both day and night, the young man's restoration.

NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.

As tho steamer Ilauraki, from Kaipara to Waitara, was neariug the latter place, a Beaman named llichard Walsh was knocked over by a sail, at about 2 o'clock this morning. A boat was lowered, but got swamped, and life buoys were thrown overboard to him, but without avail, and he soon sank.

(per united press association.) WELLINGTON, May 17. The collision inquiry is still going on. The Governor arrived this morning. A cable message has been received from, LonJon, applying for a thousand shares in the Wellington and Manawatu Bailway, and also a similar telegram from Melbourne. We understand that since the closing of the allotments considerable enquiries have been made for the shares of the company.

Walter Wiltshire Vause, against whom his wife obtained a divorce at the court in Wellington on Monday, made a determined attempt at suicide on Monday evening, by shooting himself. Ho proceeded to Maginnity'f. boarding-bouse, where !i^ was lodging, and went upstairs apparently in his usual spirits. Shortly afterwards a loud report was heard, and on the landlord rushing upstairs he found Van SQ lying on bis bed partially dressed, and ti carbine lying by his side. He then ascertained that Yattse had shot himself in the left lung, and the bullet, after passing through the shoulder blade, stuck fast just inside the skin at the back. It is thought that the divorce preyed on his mind. Dr. Bawson attended him, but the unfortunate man gradually sank, dying at 2 o'clock this morning. Vause was about 37 years of age, and was well known in Dunedin, where, it is said, he served a sentence for embezzlement. At the inquest on Vanss to-day, the verdict returned was that he shot himself while in a state of temporary insanity. Mr. Pilliett has arrived here, intending to take his Beat for Stanmore., . Tne ordinary notices have been sent to jiinito attend Parliament, the passage to .Wellington was provided in due course" and a return furnished him by the €lerk of Writs. He will probably be sworn in without opposition, but it is understood Sir T. Erskine May has been cabled to for advice under the circumstances.

The Government have decided to appoint a Commission to inquire into the management of the Dunediu Benevolent Institution. The Commission will not consist of more than two members, and probably only one. Mr. Whitefoord, 8.M., at Kaiapoi, is one of the Commissioners, and it is expected that Dr. Gile, R.M., at Hokitika, will be asked to act with him. The Commission will be convened forthwith.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency report as follows : — Wool sales opened in London on the 16th at the level of last series.. The opening catalogue contained 6000 bales, and was a fairly representative one. Coarse cross-bred market easier. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. As significant of the increasing woollen trade, the Kaiapoi factory are advertising for a hundred additional bands for the clothing factory.

Mr. Nelson, of the firm of Nelson, Moote, and Co., was stuok up on the East Belt, at half-past 11 o'clock last night, by three men, who sprang upon him from the hedge and knocked him down. His clothes were considerably torn in the scuffle, and attempts were made to rifle him, but he made a vigorous resistance, and the noise he kicked up eventually frightened his assailants off. The police searched the neighborhood for some hours, but in vain.

NEW PLYMOUTH, May 17. Mr. Samuel solicitor to the Licensed Victuallers' Association at Now Plymouth, has given an opinion that there is no such thing as a private bar under the Licensing Act.

TIMAEU, This Day. The steamer Waitaki will be employed to-day to tow off the ship City of Perth. She is quite afloat. No more bodies have been recovered. The inquiry into the wreck of the Benvenue was commenced yesterday, and the sale of the wreck takes place to-day. It is still a question whether more persons were not drowned on Sunday last than has yet been telegraphed, and in order to gain further information all who went out in the various boats have been requested to meet to-morrow to compare notes. By this means it is hoped to ascertain exactly who are missing.

NELSON, This Day.

News has been received here that Bichard Shields, one of the oldest diggers on the West Coast, and first discoverer of the reefs in the Inangahua district, has been drowned while crossing the Matakitiki, at Harnpden. He was crossing with James Chirton, a settler, both being on the horse, when the animal bucked in mid-stream, and both men were thrown. Chirton managed to get ashore, but Shields w.is earned down into the Buller river and drowned. His body was recovered a few hours after the accident.