INTERPrOVINCIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Issue 123, 25 October 1866, Page 3

INTERPrOVIN CIAL NEWS.

m Fatal Accident at o>'EiruN«A. — A fatal accident took place at Onolmnga yesterday morning, at half-p;wst nine o'clock. A man .named Hans Neilson, storemanof Mr Hodge, of this place, and a native of Denmark, went to draw a bucket of water out of the well. As he went to the place, he observed that there was a live goose below. Ho sit once went and got an iron bar, put it across the well, and tied a piece of rope to it to lower himself down, so that he might get up the goose ; bufc by some means he l;;st his hold and fell to th.3 bottom. There was about five feet of water in the well, which is about 30 feet deep. His wife at once gave the alarm, and in a very few minutes there were several persoi.a on the spot. Mr Hugh Murray, on hearing what had happened, got another rope, and lowered himself into the well, and brought Neilson up. Constable Spray at once commenced to rub him, to try and bring him io life. Dr Nicholson was soon in attendar.ea, and found that lifo was extinct. He was at onc-3 removed to his home. Neilson leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss. Unfortunately they have been thus suddenly deprived of their means of support. The deceased was a very steady respectable man, and very much respected by every one. — "Southern Cross," lGth inst. The buildings on tho west side of the main street of Clyde had a very narrow escape on the 6th inst- from becoming food for a general conflagration. About 10 o'clock p.m., the stables of Mr Win. Grindly, of the Victorian Butchery, suddenly burst out into flames, and which mounted high into the air before a bucket of water could be brought to •'boar upon them. Tho progress of the fire was so rapid that the whole building had to be entirely demolished before it could be stayed. Fires is Auckland.— On tho night of the 28th September, a fire broke out in Symond's street, totally destroying eleven houses. The lire was not unattended by accident. When it became a question of pulling down one of the house 3, a young mam, named John Barron, formerly a waterman, now a laborer, volunteered to go on to the roof of the house and^fix the grapnel. He succeeded in rcachiugthe top of the house, but the shingles being wet, he slipped and fell down from a height of nearly thirty feet, sustaining a compound fracture of the arm, above the wrist. On the same night another fire occurred in a different part of the town, and resulted in the destruction of an unoccupied house. In each case the fires are supected.to be the work of an incendiary. , On tho 10th inst. four more houses were burnt down at Nowtown, and the jury afterwards appointed to investigate the affair returned a verdict of " wilful incendiarism." Severe Gale at "Wellington. — The "Evening Post" of Friday week last, says : — " For the last twenty-four hours one of the heaviest gales that have ever visited Wellington has been raging from the north-west, the barometer falling as low as 29 20. The harbor appeared one | sheet of white foam, and with the very j greatest difficulty vessels were enabled to keep their berths alongside tho Queen's wharf, several hawsers aucl chains having parted during the night, but fortunately nothing farther happened than a few strains and bruises against the wharf. The Fanny Fishor had a narrow escape from stranding on the S.E. beach, and from the amount of pulling and hauling done on board the Mayola, she must have held on with difficulty ; the Gambula, having a snug berth, took it pretty comfortably ; but the Western Star, lying to tho windwan 1 , carried away several hawsers and_£loaiii3, besides being pretty well bruised in several places. Tho Stint, having dragged, found herself at daybreak pretty close to the new wharf." Tribute to Mrs Matkieit. —We (Nelson Examiner) learn from the Marlborough papers, that the ladies of Havelock and the neighborh^^axejsubscribed the sum of £2T 4s . GA "forS^^Psiix Msithieu ; and at Greymouth, Mr Julos Guerin and his friends subscribed the sum of £14 for the same lady. Mrs Mathieu is now in Nelson, on her way to the Grey, where several friends have invited her to enter into business, and we hope sincerely that the unfortunate lady will meet with liberal support."