THE LATEST FROM HAWKE'S HAY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIIII, Issue 12287, 22 April 1897, Page 2

THE LATEST FROM HAWKE'S HAY.

t i ' _ •-. „ Na Pl?b. April 22. Lonal subscriptions tothe FioM Belief Fund are coajiug ih freely,' with many donations of clothing, he-di-sr, and other necessaries. Judge Ward sent £21 from rtOSIUEB. In the Magistrate's Court to-doy, Mr Turnbull, ! S ? M. v referre4.fe.rfingly to the loss of Sergeant O'DonovW.t f_d C ™ i tablo Stephenson, whojn ha eulogised as as most painstaking a.d.capabl- offiosra. Cotstable Bsakville.has returned from an lnspacition of tab 'coast line, but fonnd no trace of the mißsing me_. ; • pisrathefrpmarJßblethai.two flooded out isettlera have smoa lost theirhouses bv nre. --'-„. ; ' -'- * The Hon Mr, .gift Jonea, .held' a consaltation with; .the,, chairman ■0 f the County Counqil, :#j«b_ fJjjMjijtor, and leading gltwang an<J ejtpMft, <]_£

pricnipal question diecuteed was as to whether the washc.ut at Waitao gi should be dredged or an embankment formed, -• - and the general opinion was in favour of a bridge in the meantime. The Hon . HalWonPß promif ed to restore com- | munication as quickly as i;osqih p, jr.--- i . . bably.by nuaip of t-jmpcrary dmr^ion of ' Une. He and Mr Hem ton, M.H.8.. 1;_ . afterwards lift to visit the flooded' out . YA dietrict, '. He has a'resdy takon stf-p-j to >*_F have' a pnnt jl?ced on the Upper V Mohaka, on the Tuopo line, pending the : -_- recbnßtrnctibn of the bridge; In order to find fotno particulars of the ;..-' connections of B)ge, drowned in one. of -/J' the boats crew«,. a. Eearch- was made - amongßt his effeits, his address >as . found to be John Eo;e, J. Smith asd Co., '"!-•': 806, _eorge Strtct, Sydney. . It wa<? gathered that he bad a wife end ;. -two children. " The wife has he >_n communicated with.