INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1913, 23 July 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(PER UNITED PBBSS ASSOCIATION.)

Wellington, July 22

The ageuts of the b rq u e Chasca have reeived information from Sydney that the vessel pnt in there for repairs. The Wellington Poultry Slp.w was opened this afternoon by His Excellency the Governor and is fairly successful. Dunedin, July 21.

Robert Smith, 16 years of age; died at Taupeka suddedly, it is thought from eating poisoned rabbits

At a public meeting of citizens it was resolved to hold the Fire Brigade Demonstration in Dunedin in February next year, and a committee was appointed to arrange matters connected therewith. A laborer named A»ion Robert Bloomfelt was found dead against a fence at Fine Hill, near the town, last night, He appeared to be in good health when he left home at dinner time. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause. Information has been receive! that the ketch Alpha went ashore at Waikawa this morning. The crew are all safe, She was partly insuredThe enquiry into the fire at M’Fadden’s boot shop was not concluded to-day. The evidence showed that the fire had been put out when it broke out in the afternoon, hut nothing was elicited to show how thejfire broke out a second time. Christchurch. July 21.

The resideuce’of the Rev. E. E. Cham ■ bers at Dampier’s Bay, LyttehoD, was destroyed by fire this afternoon. The building is owned by Mrs Rodgers, a widow. The occupants were away at the time, and very little furniture was saved. The furniture was insured for L2OO in the National Office, The cause of the fire is unknown. There is a little trouble here just now with regard to the d sposal of inebriates requiring curative treatment. It had hitherto been the practioe to commit them to Addington Gaot. but the authorites there objected strongly, and on last Monday Mr Beetham, R.M , acting it is stated, on instructions from the Government, comitted a man suffering from delirium tremens to the Christchurch Hos pital. He was admitted, but the house surgeon wrote a vigorous protest to the Hospital Committee, who forthwith passed a resolution instructing the house surgeon not to admit any similar cases in future. The man was placed in a wa d with other patients owing, the surgeon said, to there being no ther acommododation for him, and he kept the whole ward in a constant state of ter rorr and sleeplessness during Monday night. He was then put in a padded cell, and kept the whole institution awake by his shrieks for hours last night, To-day he was allowed to walk in the grounds, and seized the opportunity to make good his escape from the premises, aud has not yet been re-captured by the police. The magistrate is justified in the action by section 21 of the Police Offences Act, which empowers him to commit drunkards requiring medical treatment to the hospital, but it appeals there is no provision for the reception of such cases at the Christchurch Hospital. July 22. Sydney Cloxon the inebriate who escaped from the Hospital was retaken early this morning. Mr Beetham R.M. ordered the gaoler to take him back to the Hospital. The Hospital Biard is determined not to allow the man to be admitted again, and the affair seems likely to result in further trouble.

DISTRESS AT DUNEDIN.

790 PERSONS ALMOST STARVING

DtINEDIN, July 21

A meeting of nearly 200 unemployed was again held at which the Mayor and several councillors addressed the men. These have been informed that the work provided on the Otago Central Railway wou'd not be open to them, but only to those at present engaged on rehef works. After the meeting the Mayor sent the following telegram to the Premier “At the request of a large number of unemployed preseutat a meeting to-day, I forward by post the petition of 179 laborers praying for work in towo or country. There are 143 wiveß, 467 children, total 790 souls stated to be on the verge of starvation. The men say that six shillings per day is the least ihey can exist on in the country, and nearly all are destitute of blankets and clothing. They ask as an alternative for own work, at 4s 61 or 4s, if country work a r 6i cannot he provided ” The Mayor Ima also sent a private te'egram to the Premier, stating that the wages asked were not unreasonable, and ’hat they were waiting patiently for the authorities to do something. THE MAORI DISTURBANCE. Opunake. July 21. Titokowaru, Nghan«, Kohu, Rang'heutß, Ake Ake, Ake Kuku, and Iki Nui were charged this afternoon before Cob Roberts, R,M„ with having committed uulawful wilful damage and injury to property, belonging to Andrew Histie, to tho extent of L2O. The evidence given bore out the facts already telegraphed. The case is not conclude 1. Hawera, July 21.

A visit was made to the Kapuni new meeting house yesterday, where the Maoris were all congregate! after the arrests on Sunday. Some were sulky, and ordered friendly Europeans to go hoipe. Natives from a distince talk of going home torday und have released nearly all their horses and cattle. Nothing more is s»U of ploughing. After hearing of Te Whiti’s arrest one Maori made a speech and said, “ Now they have arrested Te Wliiti, let them arrest the Governor too, and both go Home and be tried before the Queen.” Tfie proposal was generally approved. The Maoris deny, that Kereopa took a prominent part jo the rqw at Hastie’s Te Hiki in his speech immediately after the row eaid, Even if the whj e men hit you with sticks, you are not to resist” The Maoris rather boast about Kereopa not being taken, and say, “you wanted to take Kereoja but you were afraid.” Referring to the row on Sunday they asy that if all the whi.e men had used their sticks onie or two of them did, there would have been trouble. A 1 - though the Maoris were sulky yeatepd'ay, food was given to some of tha partj-. The last of the drays has been taken from Hastie’s gate to-day.

MR LEVY’S DISAPPEARANCE. Wellington, Juv 22. The disappearance of Mr Levy, J.P., Secretary of the Temperance Aliiauce is still shrouded iu mystery. On the arrival of the Uauroto from Sydney Inquiries were made as to whether he was a passenger by her to Sydney on the last trip. Captain Kenaedy and the other officers of the ship are positive that he dij npt leave in tha Hauroto. They all knew him quite well. Against this it is said a detective making enquiries on board, the fore cabin stewardess, two sailors and another man, on being shewn a photograph ot Mr Levy, ssid he was a pas-; jenger: “The Evening Press t -night says __«• Jr has now been definitely ascertained that Mr 4 Levy sailed for Sydney by the Hanroto on her last trip to that place on the Bth July, Inquiries instituted by the polios show that Mr Levy was at the

■ iilwat station on the I9th June with vliss Bessie Ohlson, a Noiw gian, with whom he wag acquinted when residing at Noreewood, ini the Forty-mile Bush. It was then supposed tint the young woman was going to her friends. It turns out, however, that Mr Levy assisted to realter addresses on htr boxes for Sydney, and tben Miss Ohlson is known to have sailed for that plrce by the Wakatipu on that day (Saturday. 19th June). • On the arrivil of the Hauroto this morning from Sydney, Dectective Chrystall boarded the vessel, and showed Levy’s likeness to those on board, when several of the crew recogDi-ed it as one of the steerage pas sengers- There were some 35 in all who had sailed by the Hauroto for Sydney on the Bth July, the day he was mis-el. The purser states he was never questioned about Mr Levy while in Sydney, and knew nothing about it until his return here. COLLAPSE OF A TUNNEL. A MAN AND BOY BURIED. Dunedin, July 22 A fatal accident occured at Kawarau Gorge lust night Alexander Cameron was working in a tunnel when it collapsed completely buryrnz him. A bov, twelve years, named Hansen, was with him, and there is no hope that the Utter will be saved. Willing hands were promptly at the work of rescue, and although Cameron’s body has been reached more than once additional slips have pre vented it being extricated. He ia known to be dead, but the t.oy may be further in the tuunel and yet alive, although this is very doubtful. Relays of rneo are still at work endeavoring to effect the child’s rescue.