INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 28 May 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. Auckland, May 2G. H.M.S. Calliope visited Samoa with the Chief Justice of Fiji, to try a British subject named M'Donald, charged with the manslaughter of a Samoan policeman, who was illegally arresting him The prisoner was found not guilty. May 27. A fire broke out about two this morning in the shop of Sharlan and Co., chemists, Shortland-street, and the premises were gutted, the stock being also destroyed. The fire, which occurrod at the rear of Sharland’s, extended to the warehouse of L. D. Nathan and Co., where considerable damage was done, a good deal of property being injured by water. The stock of T. Peacock, M.H.R., was much damaged by smoke and water, a number of valuable instruments being destroyed. The insurances on Nathan’s property are : building, L 2500 in Royal; stock, LIOOO in the South British, and L3OOO in the Northern. A policy of LBSO in tho Now Zealand office on Peacock’s, and there were other amounts in various offices. Sharland’s insurances are unknown.

The ship Henry James, bound from Melbourne to Fr’isco, with coal, struck on a reef about 1300 miles from Samoa, on the night of the 19th April, and became a total wreck. The crew and passengers, numbering 30 souls, barely escaped with their lives. After a great deal of trouble they managed to reach an uninhabited island of Pal.ymers, where cocoanuts supplied them with food and drink. There is no water on the island After two days it was arranged that the mate and four of the crew should start in a cutter and try and reach some place to procure help. They mado for Samoa, which they reached in an exhausted condition after a passage of 19 days. They had nothing but cocoanut food to eat and cocoanut milk to drink all the way. The schooner Vinder was despatched to rescue tho shipwrecked party on the Island, including two women and four children, one of the women being near confinement. Wellington, May 27. The Wanaka, with the ’Frisco mail, arrived last night, and sailed for Lyttelton at 11 this morning. The local branch of the National League have forwarded £IOO to the mother branch.

A great Masonic festival is to take place on Monday evening, when Bro. tho Hon. Sir Harry Albert Atkinson is to be installed as District Grand Master for the North Island of New Zealand District under the English constitution, in succession to Bro. C. J. Toxward, resigned. The ceromony will probably be one of a most imposing' character. Masons of tho highest rank from all parts of the Colony are assembling in Wellington, . and steamers and special trains arriving between now and Monday will greatly augment the number. Westport, May 2G. The wrestling match between Dunn and Ford was won by Ford. At the races to-day, tho principal race was won by Doncaster.