INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3389, 8 October 1900, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Par Press Association. WELLINGTON, October 6. laformation has been received by one of the banks that a, number of expert a cracksmen are on their, way from England. i Other banks are warned to take precautions. October 7. There has been iv heavy rain m the Pahiatua district and the rivers are m flood. Railway traffic is interrupted, and settlers have had to shift stock to high ground. The .master of an incoming steamer reports that a warship's cutter has been washeddup on the beach at Whaerangi station, Palliser Bay, bearing the letter " "M" on: the bow m gilt m a rope circle. It is -supposed that it belongs to the Mildura, which sailed last week for the Cook Islands with Lord Ranfurly. A heavy isoutherly gale was blowing at the time, !■' and the probabilities are that the boat . was washed overboard. I;. The date for taking the Census has been fc fixed for March 31st next year. Commander Ravenhill, of H.M.S. PbrB poise, has informed the local manager of i the Westport Coal Company that the i Penarth is returning to Naw Zealand to load coal at Westport for Hongkong. The collier is expected to reach New Zealand ' about the 26th inst. p _ l CHRISTCHURCH, October 7. 1 Yesterday afternoon a little son of Mr J Rhodes, of Sydenham, got a piece of ciir- . rot stuck m his throat, and although he was quickly taken to the hospital, the obstruction could not be removed before the ' child was asphyxiated. The little boy Harold Cowper, who wa.s run over by a tram car m Richmond or. Thursday died yesterday from the effects of his injuries. " At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to anyone. It is understood that the Collector of Customs will take proceedings against the captain of the schooner Glencairn, wrecked on Ninety Mile Beach last week, for a breach of the Merchant Seamen's Act, for having too large a proportion of boys m his crew. The C.V.C. and Ashburton Mounted Rifles closed a very successful camp on Saturday with a sports meeting. There was a very large attendance of the public. The battalion church parade at the camp ground to-day was attended by a large number, both "of foot and mounted men, including several of the new country corps.