INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3551, 15 February 1886, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Wellington, Feb. 1 3. During the voyage of tho ship Opawa from London a boy named H. Hoggor fell from the cross jack yard into the sea. There was a heavy gale blowing at the time, but a boat was lowered and every effort made to save him, but without avail. A. boy named Thomas Watson, aged ten, son of Thoma3 Watson, engineer of the steamer Tui, was found drowned m the harbor at the rear of the gasworks this morning. It is believed he was fishing off tho trestle work used m connection w.th the To Aro reclamation and fell off. Feb. 14. The boy drowned m the harbor yesterday was not Watson, as first telegraphed, but is now identified as the son of Mr S. S. Griffiths, a commercial traveller. Great interest is boing taken m the Licensing question, and on Saturday there were largo nominations for three out of the four Wards. For Te Aro and Cook AVards there were ten nominations 5 for Lambton nine ; and for Thorndon six. The temperance party held lectures m favor of their cuuse at tho Theatre this afternoon. There was a large attendance, and Sir William Fox presided. Mr Glover, who had been engaged by the Temperanco Alliance made a strong appeal to tho audience to return the temperanco candidates. At a meeting of tho local Biflo Association yesterday it was decided that tho men who fire for the President's Cup and make the highest oggregate m four matches will next week fire a final match for the Champion Belt. The Artillery have seven mon out of the ten qualified. CnuiSTCJHTECH, Feb. 13. The offences return for tho Christchurch police district is just -completed. It shows that 2031 offences were reported, and 1885 persons apprehended during the year, against 2384 reported, and 2206 apprehended m 1884. 1 Dunedin, Feb. 13. Walter Prince, an electrician, was mountiug a horse at Queenstown which he had newly purchased, when the animal bolted, dragging him some distance. He had one foot m the 1 stirrup when thfl animal started. His skull is fractured and there are no hopes of his recovery. Two cottages at Lawrence were burned ' down this morning. One was insured for £100 m the Norwich Union office. The other ■ wa9 uninsured. r A slight rain fell this morning. > A four-roomed cottage at Burnside, owned t and occupied by James Campbell was burned , down this morning. It was insured for £170. The Standard Insurance Company's annual report states that the revenue, including the balance brought forward, was £85,514 and the expenditure £77,416, leaving a balance of £8127. A dividend at the rate of 7| per cent is recommended. Cardinal Moran held a reception to-day, j at which a large number of persons attended. He may probably give a temperance lecture on his return from the North. Feb. 14. A navvy named Frank Park was killed near Nenthorn on the Otago Central line on 1 Friday. He was engaged with others blasting, and returning after it whs thought the blasts had all gone off, one which hung firo ■ exploded, hurling a tremendous piece of rock, which fell on him, and took eight men, with i crowbars, some time to remove. Park was ; fearfully crushed, and died some hours after. Two boys named Crombie and Condon, who ran away from their parents at Oamaru, wore arrested on the arrival of the Beautiful Star, and are to be sent back home. Invbboabgili* Feb. 13. Heavy rain fell last night. Thomas Spence, charged at the Police Court to-day with indecently assaulting a girl aged 11 years, was remanded. ' John Templeton, merchant, of Wyndham, has been declared a bankrupt. The liabilities ; are said to be heavy, ten thousand being , named as the figures. Tho assets are eup--3 posed to be of considerable valuo. Tho . heaviest creditors are-Dunedin firms. t Two boys, named Gibson and Stuck, went . into tho bush near Eiverton to obtain saplings. g They went close to a burning tree top, part of „ which fell, striking both lads. Gibson, whoso body was literally smashed, died instantly, while Stuck escaped with a broken leg. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. At Gibson's funeral a number of ' boys were present and they afterwards went ■ for a bathe m the lagoon. One of them named Joseph Richards, aged |12, got out of f liia depth and wag drowned. One of his i companions (Nickless), attempted to rescue 1 Richards, and actually got hold of him, but 5 lacked the strength to drag him into shallow water. Some volunteers were shooting some . distance off but the boys m their excitement did not give the alarm till after dressing. The body was soon recovered, but life was extinct.