INTERPROVINCIAL

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2529, 25 September 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(BY TKLEfiItAI'H—PBKSS ASSOCIATION"). CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. On Thursday last the cutter Hero drifted on the rocks in Lfi Bon's Bay, and was wrecked. The crew were saved. At the Police Court to-day, a Chinese storekeeper at Cust, was fined £10, for allowing fan tan in his house. Nineteen Chinamen caught by the police playing the game were fined 10s each. On Saturday morning a two-year-old boy, son of Mr J. B. Mansliip, of blolswell, was drowned iu the river near his father's house, from which lie was absent half an hour before being missed. James Cotter, Andrew Black, and Richard Chamberlain were committed for trial this afternoon, on charge of assaulting and robbing Edmond Desmond, when druuk, of £14, on September 15th. NELSON, Monday. Three hundred bales of Nelson hops were sold in one line for Australia last week. This is the largest transaction yet reported here. The price has not transpired. lIA.WERA, Monday. At a football match at Eltham, on Saturday, F. A. Tyrer sustained a serious injury to his spine. DUNEDIN, Monday. Early in July Wm. Lindsay, a farmer at Stiath-Taieri, attempted suicide by shooting himself, and while being conveyed to the Dunedin Hospital he escaped into the bush and was never discovered till Saturday, when his body was found in a creek 100 yards from where he escaped. At Arrow yesterday the body of a man named Joseph O'Cullaghan was found in the Cardroua River. The deceased was the teacher at the Catholic school. JNVERCARGILL, Monday. The young man Rudolph Radka, committed for trial on the charge of arson, escaped from gaol last nijilt. A wire clothes-line dangling over the front wall showed the means used to effect his escape. Later. The search for Radka is so far iiusuo cessfnl. The latest report is that a boat is missing from the vicinity of the wharf. Radka had been visited pretty frequently by acquaintances since his incacreration. No trace has been found at all of the tool by which the lock of the door was picked.