Late Interprovincial

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 63, 14 November 1889, Page 2

Late Interprovincial

(PBB UNITED PIFBB ASSOCIATION) CHBiSTCHr/Bcn, Th s Day. ' The Court of Enquiry into the accident to the barque Otago gave judgment to the effect tbat she was damaged by stress of weather, and not to any act of commission or omission by the captain. That if i • captain had taken liquor after the accident - be bad not taken enough to incapacitate him. That everything that could be done* had been done and that the chief mate did not support the captain bj he sbould; that the ship is ill found and should not have been passed bb fit to go to sea, in -tilt.- st ite she left Svdney. No order waa mad j as to ceiiifl.-ates of the officers or costs. Wkllinotok, This Day. Nothing has been done with regard to * proposition to duplicate the Australian cable as the Government are still waiting for an answer from Sir H. Parkes. Hewas cabled to a week ago but has not replied so far aB New Zealand is concerned. However, the Government has deeided ~ they will not agree to anything which would have the effect of giving the Eastern Extension -Co. a monopoly. ' The Premier" is not much better for hia trip to Nelson- -but the reports going about as to the serious state of his health are- - exaggerated. Isvkbc\bqilli. November 13. William Watt, one- of the men em-* ployed at the Welman dredge, Waipapa, was drowned yesterday morning. How thp fatality occurred is not known, but it is surmised he fell overboard ,m a fit. He was unmarried and about fiO years of age. Auckland, November 13.' A village settler at Rawene, near Hokianga, named Charles Bodman has been - missing for some days. His clothes have been found on the bank of a creek. A little boy named Charles H. Gallagher was found drowned in the har**" •• bour to.day. News by the steamer .Wafnui says' that" the island of Tolofa, m the Haapai V'roiip, is in a volcanic f-oodi-r.-./., j.l" aiV autiyesniptiou reoaudy tookplaoe.*