INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8699, 19 December 1899, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Association.] \ WELLINGTON, This day. Yesterday the rainfall was 2-71 inches. PAHIATUA, This day. Mra Yule, wife of a sawmiller, has been missing since yesterday. Her hat and cloak were found on the bank of the river, and footprints to the water's edge. It iB believed she has been drowned. The river has been dragged, but there is no sign of the body; She had been, despondent for some time. • Lateb.— Mrs Yule's body was found in the river near the racecourse. AUCKLAND, This day. The returns for the past five weeks of the Waitekauri Company's mines are 2567 tons of ore treated for bullion worth £7941. This brings the year's output from the Waitekauri Company's mine up to £74,276, being an increase on the past year. The Rev. E. W. Gillara has accepted the vicarsbip of St. Matthews. His late parishioners of Epson cum Ellershe desire the Primate, in selecting a successor, to favorably consider the desire of the parishioners for the appointment of the Rev. Wm. Fielding, rector of Windsor, New Soutli Wales. A number of cases of street betting and laying of toto odds were before the Court, and more are to come on. In several cases fines were inflicted, but in two cases the evidence failed. At a meeting addressed by Richardson and other speakers, indignation was expressed at the alleged wholesale disfranchisement of electors entitled to be on the roll. Rcsolutious wore passed demanding a full enquiry, and, if possible, the compilation of ft ue.w roll and the holding of a Fresh election. Charles Smith, a baker, has been missing since Thursday, when he went out to collect accounts. OHRISTCHURCH, This day. The New Zealand Wheel race resulted : Body 1, Paget 2, Tierney 3. Time, 4min 41 3-sth sees. DUNE DIN, This day. Out of 58,193 voters in Otago aud Southland, 27,317 voted no licease and 26,800 contiuuauue. INVERCARGILD, This day. A singular capture was mad? by a youth on the bauks of the Waihope river, in the ; shape of a shell fish of large dimensions. • A' reference to Standard Natural history

leaves no doubt that it is a mud turtle (cinoßternum pennsylrtunicum), very common in the south-east of tho United States. Other turtles of a larger size have been seen in the locality, and efforts are now being made to catch them. How it reached the locality is a mystery. BLUFF, Tins day. Tho Antarctic steamer Southern Cross left here yeßterday for Victoria Land.