INTERPROVINVIAL.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6535, 28 December 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINVIAL.

(IT TXLKORA7X.)

AUCKLAND.

December 27.

A woman named Mary Bura*e was drowned on Saturday night, at Woodhill, by fslllag Into a creek. The woman, with a man named Hamers, were s»»n by a neighbor polling up the stream. He states that they were drunk, and that hs offered to pnll the boat across ths strram, but they refuted. The body of the woman was afterward i found In the stream.

Eight men, arrested jeiterday at Eilerslle rsc«oonrse, w«re charged this morning at the R.M. Coort with playing a number of games with gaming tables. A remvnd was granted nit'll to-morrow.

A farmer named Win. Routloy wai found dasd In hit stable at Pukekobe, a' 3 p.m. ysstsrday.

WELLINGTON.

Ddoember 27.

A guird named Miehiel Bennett, employed on the Gevsrnn«nt railways, broke his leg; yesterday, in stepping from the Upper Hatt platform oq to the railway line.

George Adams, a member of Hansard a*aff, met with a aerioas seeldent yesterday afternoon. While he was endeavoring te extinguish a gorse fire on the Wellington Terrace he f«ill over a bank. It is feared that he received a eenoisslem of the spinal cord, and that paralysis may sat tn.

▲ man named R'ehard Donglas Morgan has been missing for two or three days. W. H. Thompson, be er known as "Zulu Thoaapson," ef panorama fame, died last night. He had been ailing for some time from diabetes

To day waa observed as a general holiday. The weather was fine, with a southerly wind blowing. Numerous excursions took piao*, but boyond these oo anauioaaent was afforded.

Tne Bon. Mr Ballanoe, who his been seriously HI, is now ree>T«rin<?: Tbe opening of the ladus'rial Eihibltioo at Palanrston North yesterday wan vevy saeoassful, about 1500 parsons belne present.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda were passengsrs for the sonth to«l«y.

Arrived— Ship, W»icaate, Oipt. Canese, 92 days from London.