INTRPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3753, 12 October 1886, Page 2

INTRPROVINCIAL.

(By TEr.RORAPH.) . Auckland, Oct. 11. Mr Waddell has written from Sydney to his supporters declining to recontest the mayoralty. The nimen of Messrs Buiton, Seymour George, Render Wood, Olliver, and Mays, nro mentioned as probahle candidates for tho Wnitcmata. A deputation waited on Mr Button to day. An unoccupied house at Paumure, tho property of Mr Finnorty, of Matatuna, was burned down. It wdb insured for £125 m the New Zealand Insurance Company. The Lumpers Union ia a thing of the past. j Work was resumed this morning by nearly the same as tliofe who struck work last week. Wellington, Oct. 11. Mr Ballance left for Masterton this morning. Ho will be received hv the members for the district nnd other residents and representatives of the 3mall Farm Association, and banquetted to-night. The steamer Manapouri, which arrived from the north yesterday, reports sighting a floating wreck m Palliser Bay, whi h is believed to bo tho hull of the ketch Janet, wrecked at Cape Campbell. The Eteamor Mana went to day to search for the derelict, but had to return owing to tho strong southerly wind at sen. DUNBDIN, Oct. 11. Mrs Andrew Morcor, one of the oldest identities, is dead. Captain Baldwin supplies tho Times with particulars of the extraordinary loss of sheep m Buenos Ayres, between the effects of an epidemic and drought. The loss is said to be nearly twenty million Bheep, representing m value £3,0001000. Tho civil sittings of the Supreme Court collapsed to-dny, Rnd tho jurors, witnesses, nnd others had to depart without fee or reward, at which there was some grumbling. The flags on the vessels m harbour were half-mast high, as a token of respect for Captain Budd, of the ship Rangitiltei, who was drowned at I yttelton. A man named James McLa gb'nn, of Q.uecnstown, died on Saturday from ftn overdose of chlorodjno. His son, eleven yews of »ge, died an hour before m the hospital, of rheumatic fever, nnd hin wife is at present m tho hospital from a broken leg.