INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1624, 1 August 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

AtTOKLAKD, July 30. A dead body was found this mornin/y m the water near the railway wharf. The name of deceased is unknown. m . July 31. Two boys wore droivnod to-day at Newton m a watorholo which was formerly used as a quarry. The pit had been filled with water through recent rains, ancj a number of children were playing at the epot, when ono William White, aged nine, fell into a hole, and an elder brother, Charles, jumped mto rescue him. In diving the latter struck a rock at the side and wns etunnod, both lads being drowned.

Wellington, July 30. Tenders are called for rebuilding the General Post 'ancf Telegjraph Office recently* destroyed by fire 1

Grbymouth, Jaly 31. The report of Major Kiddell, the Commissioner appointed to enquire into the cause of the accident m the Wallsend mino, ia to hand. He sayß tlie primary cayise of the accident was the faulty mannor m which .^amea Dunn drilled the and prepared the shot befqre regaestinff the overman to fire it. The overman is also censured, and the Commissioner states that suipcient precautions have not been taken to secure jthe safety of men working m the mine, oonsjidering it Jjas been notoriously subject to appearances'Qf gaa iq all worfiing places. VVm..J<aWn, jnfant child of Thos. Jjawi^, «raa accidentally drowned thig eveping by fulling down a water closet. ' ' • DpwjtspiN, July The body of a rabbiter naiuod ThQraag Moore was discovered frozen to death m the Carriok range, near Awowtoo, on