INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 211, 26 July 1878, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, July 24.

At the inquest on the bodies of William Hawkins and John M!' Govern, drowned in the Ruamahunga river, the evidence showed that .deceased and a man named Dougherty had dinner at Mauriceville, and five drinks each. When they started for, Masterton M'Govern was drunk. At the river Dougherty, M { Govern and Hawkins went in to: ford it together, M'Govern being between the other two. When in the river he fell, dragging the others with him. Dougherty was pulled out senseless, and the two others were drowned. The inquest is not concluded.

Blenheim, July 24,

A slight railway accident occurred this morning. The train, when approaching Spring Creek station, slowly came against a partially opened switch. The engine 6tuck fast, and its weight severed the rotten sleepers and bent the sockets. The manager and passengers, seven in all, reached Opawa on a trolly. The driver and guard were a good deal shaken. Subsequent investigation shows that the accident was caused by foul play, and with the evident intention of throwing the engine off the rails. It did not, however, sustain any injury.

Dunedin, July 24

A case of sticking-up occured in Manse street this moaning. The perpetrators are two young men named Rickards and Kent.

An inquest was held this afternoon on the body of a child belonging to a young woman named Caroline Young, and which was found dead behind a fence a few days ago. A verdict was returned to the effect that the child died from suffocation, but that there was no -evidence to show how it was caused.

W. MONTGOMERY & CO, (Limited)