INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5902, 22 October 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

» [Pbr Prks* -Association.] WELLINGTON, To-day. Mr Edward Dixon, formerly a cordial manufacturer, and an enthusiast in cricket' ing matters, died last night, aged 65. The Petoue Borough Council have de cicled to raise a loan of L 20,00() for drain age and water supply. AUCKLAND, To-day. News has reached Kuaotonu of an important gold discovery at Boat Harbor, about five or six miles from Tairqa. A prospecting party, named Marsiek's, has cut a reef which is said to give prospects as good as those got from Kuaotonu. Joseph Baxter, who shot himself, died yesterday afternoon. The arrival of the steamer Richmonc from tho Islands brines intelligence of the fate of the missing Chilian brigantine Nautilus. On the 27th June last, at i a.m. she suddenly struck the island ol Hereheretiu and became a total wreck, having drifted broadside on to the reef. Oapt. Owens, who was below when the vessel struck, attributes the loss of vos' eel either to the choronometer being out or a strong current. Everything was lost, but all hands reachod the shore safely The captain and crew were then seventyfour days on Hereheretiu, and lived wholly on cocoanuts and fish. On Sept. 9th the schooner Ina called at the island and took the shipwrecked crow to Anoa, thence another vessel conveyed thorn tc Tahiti. NEW PLYMOUTH, To-day. A man named ttasmusson shot himsell with a fowling piece near Inglowood,