YESTERDAYS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 940, 29 June 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAYS TELEGRAMS

INTERPROVI]S T CIAL. [PER PRESS AGENCY.] Melancholy Accident on the Grey River. Five Persons Drowned. Auckland, June 28. Sir George Grey has completely recovered his health. The insurance companies are considering a new tariff, in view of a water supply having been introduced into the city. The Council have decided to iix the level of all streets not yet surveyed. Gkeymouth, June 28. Ou Monday evening Michael Kinsella,

miner, accompanied by Mrs Margaret Mclnernej, of Nelson Creek, and her two children, and a. young woman named Bridget FiUSimons, who .was engaged to Kinsella, left the foot of Nelson Creek in a canoe to cross the river to Blackball Creek. Not having reached their destination, a search party was formed, who yesterday found the canoe bottom up, witli a woman's skirt in it. It is supposed that the girl Fitz Simons, who could swim, had clung to the canoe, and afterwards attempted to reach the bank, but had failed. The body of Mrs Mclnerney was found this morning. The other bodies are being searched for. It is certain that the whole party are drowned.

[from a correspondent of the press.] The Alleged Matricide at Oamaru. Auckland, June 28. The police, who have made a raid on unstamped weights and measures, have brought in a flood of similar articles for inspection. One publican sent ninety pewter pots to be tested. The schooner Lochiel made the run from Oamaru in four days twenty-one hours. The Union Beach Company's report shows seven dividends, amounting to £35,000, to be paid during the year. At the inquest on the body of Charles Rowley, a well-known Thames prospector, who was drowned by falling from the wharf, it was shown that he had spent thirty-five shillings in drink at one hotel on the day of his death. Dunedin, June 28. The inquest on Mrs Quarrie was resumed at Oamaru to-day. The principal evidenca was by Luxmore, the hotel keeper at Waimate, who said that Daniel Quarrie voluntarily told him that he had killed his mother, but that his mother had accused him of staying out at night and coming home drunk. They had words. He got up and pushed her away. She lifted a tomahawk, with which she struck him on the hip, afterwards knocking him down. She and his sister picked hmi up. He then threw a billet of wood at his mother, but did not wait to see whether it struck her. Subsequently his sister told him that it had, and that she fell in the yard. Then he left the house, and walked all night with the object of going to his uncle's, but he did not know where he was till lie reached Luxmore's. The latter advised him to give himself up to the police at Waimate. Luxmore said, " Sure you've not dreamt this." He replied, "No ; I have done it, and am sorry for it." He appeared to be very excited. The Cromwell Company's last crushing yielded 5610 z. The prospects are said to be very rich.

Fears are entertained for the safety of a cottar at Cardona, who went in search of Moffatt, a shepherd missing from the head of Lake Wanaka.

When the citizens' roll is revised there will be about 2000 names on it. The average for the past four years has been about 3500.