Interprovincial News.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 506, 5 September 1867, Page 1

Interprovincial News.

WELLINGTON. Latest feom the ‘Waiuaeafa —The provisions', directors of tbs Wairarapa Public Hall Company held a meeting on Saturday last, when the secretary anDon need 'Hiat rnnrc than half the 'shares! had already been taken up, and that there was no doubt of the ultimate success of the undertaking —The ratepayers of Greytown, at a public meeting, have resolved that a rate of £1 per annum shall be levied for school purposes during the ensuing year.—A meeting of the committee of the Upper Moroa Small Farm Association was held on Monday, when Mr Masters stated that several parties, who had settled on the block, had informed him that the natives claimed the land oa which they resided together with the pick ef the whole block A resolution was carried to the effect that the secretary be requested to communicate with the Government, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the block was really open for sale by the Government. —Fanny Gibbs, whose arrest on a charge of bigamy has been already reported bv us, has been committed for trial.—lndependent.

WANGANUI. UISCOVEET OF A HUMAN SKELETON The Wanganui Times, August 6, says “As two of Messrs Cooper and Parson’s men were cro.-sing the Nukumaru sand hills on their way from Wanganui to Patea, shout three weeks ago, they observed a perfect human skeleton in the sand-hills, from which the heavy gales had evidently drifted the light sandy covering. The men admired the beautiful and perfect set of teeth in the head, which dearly indicated that it was that of a young man, fallen in the prime of life. On reluming to Wanganui on Sunday last, one of those men, in company with another of Mr Cooper's men, reached the spot at Nukumaru, where the mortal remains of the men of the 18th Eoyal Irish who fell there are deposited, and there t! eir horses made a dead stop iu the midst of a terrific thunder storm. Our informant describes the spot as a standing reproach to the settlers of these districts. \\ e trust it will not be long so: the subscription list for fencing it in is rapidly filluig up—only two members of this community have as yet refused their contributions.

Sudden Death. —The same paper gives the following account of an extraordinary and sudden death About half-pas't four p.m. yesterday, Mr Neilson, of the Masonic Hotel, River Bank, called on Ser geant Kinsdla, and reported tliat a man had choked himself at his holt!. The Sergeant demanded an explanation, and was told that whilst at dinner the man had tried to swallow a piece ef meat, which stuck in the gullet and eventually choked him. On Sergeant Kinsella proceeding to the hotel, he found the body of a man named Farley, a tailor by trade, lying dead, and a siuet thrown over it. Dr Farle accompanied Sergeant Einsilla, and it was decided to hold a post mortem examination this day.”

Fatal Accident.— A fatal accident occurred at Wanganui on last Monda\ morning, when as Mr Campbell, of Brunswick, was ploughing, one of the team, being a young horse, the horses started, and in some way not yet known to us, the iron of the plough struck Mr Campbell a dreadful blow on the temple, from which it is feared he can hardly recover. [Mr Campbell died on Thursday last. — -Ed. N. Z. Advertiser. 1

NELSON. Beutai, Assault bt a Maobi.—Tlie Nelson livening Mail, of the 31st ult., says:— On Monday night a drunken squabble took place amongst a party ol Maoris assembled at the second Maori house on the Beach-road, when a most brutal assault was committed by one of them named Ripena Paramatca, upon a ■woman named Marara, and her half-caste child, Arthur Elkington. It appears to have arisen out of jealousy caused by the presence of a white man in the house ; and upon ejection from it Ripena turned upon the woman and kicked her violently, and on repeating the assault struck the child, an infant of nine months old, on the back of the head, causing fracture of the skull He was arrested on both charges yesterday morning hy Sergeant Nash, and the woman and child are now in hospital, little hopes being entertained of the child’s recovery.

Distuebing A Steef.T Peeacheh. —ln this case it appears questionable whether the preacher or tho gentleman who interrupted him were tho most deserving of punishment for disorderly conduct. A Nelson paper says;—Reuben Waite was lately charged before the Resident Magistrate, Kelson, with being guilty of disorderly conduct in Trafalgar street. A street preachar, named Costall, had collected a mob of persons in Trafalgar street on Sunday evening, whom he was addressing in an excited manner, rushing about with a lantern in his hand, proclaiming the speedy coming of Christ. Mr Waite was attracted to the spot by see rag the crowd ; and Costall coming up to where he stood, swinging about his lantern, and shouting “ Christ is coming! he will be sure to come!” Mr Wane uttered a noise which resembled the barking of a dog.' A police*

muii, who btuod bj, told iiiuj if he repeated the noise again he would take him into custody ; but on Costall approachins him again in a similar manner, Mr Waite re- . peated the noise, whereupon he was taken to the lock-up. On the statement of the | charge in Court, Mr Waite waso rdered to enter into bail for £2O, to keep the peac - Jior six mouths, and to iiuu. two Sureties . iu £lO each.

OTAGO. Suicide of a Chinaman. —A Chinaman, charged with murder, strangled himself a short time ago in the Milton (Tokomairiro) lock-up; the sucide being about acool and determined a one as possible. A short time ago, the ( omrnissioner of Police received information that Gon Chu, who was charged with h iving murdered Ching aug i’ung, at Kiaiulra, New South Wales, in 18l!6, was believed to be in Otago, and a request for assistance towards securing him, with a view to his removal to New South Waes, for trial, was made. The information from Sydney and Melbourne was to this effect:—ln April last Gon Chu was at the Dargo, where he called himself Wong ah Ping. He was traced from the Da-go to One-Foot, thence to the Bu.-kland, and thence to Melbourne, where be tuoK passage for Otago (to go to i uapeka), in the name of Chang ah Yee. Hints were also given as to the compa.u in which Gon Oliu would be found iu the 1 uapeka district. The police, after most careful inquiries, apprehended the deceased, as Use “ wanted” man ; and the evidence given before Major Croker, E.M., was such that he remanded the man to New South VV ales. Gon Chu was brought trom Lawrence to Milton, on his was to Dunedin, to await the arrival of a New South \\ ales officer, with the warrant for his apprehension on the charge of murder : and on Monday evening he was lodged in the lock-up at Milton. There he was visited by the officer-iu-cliarge each half hour; and yet he contrived to strangle himself. The outer corner of the door of the cell did not fit quite closely to th upper part of the jamb. To that corner ut the door Gon Chu fastened a small silk scarf, which he must have worn under his shirt, and, fastening the other end of the scarf round his neck, he sat down ami strangled himself. Seuious Coach Accident.— One of Cobb's coaches, with eleven inside and six outside passengers, was upset at the fooi of Saddle Hill, on its way from Dunedin to Tokomairiro, on the Bth in»t., whereby one gentleman had his leg broken, and nearly all the passengers wa re more or Jess bruised or injured. The driver, Macintosh, is one of the best men iu Hoyt and Coin pany’s employment, but had u young horse as one of the shatters, and that horse was occasionally very restive. He once or more, we are told, kicked over tintraces; but all was kept right by Macintosh until Saddle Hill had been topped. Very soon after the descent had been begun the young horse again turned restive, ,j,. while so, one of his haine-straus broke the consequent loosing of the harness mace the horse worse ; he got somewhat entangled with the flapping traces; and, by the time he hud got unmanageable, the other horses were startled, and all wengalloping furiously down the hill. Purj vis’s Inn stands to t lie h ft, as the coach was going, in a sharp ben I of the road ; and just below the Inn, there is a semicir culur widening out of the road. To the right of the road the hill-side has a steepish and nasty fall. Macintosh did all that was possible with brake and reins to cheek the Horses—in which lie failed ; or at least to keep them in to the bank, on his left —in' which ho fortunately suemh-d. The per-: sonal injuries caused by the accident are greatly to be lamented; but life would almost certainly have been lost had the horses j not been got towards bank- Ween the coach had all but safely made the sharp turn in the road, it capsized, falling towards the bank. Mr Jehu Hislop, the Inspector of Schools, was sitting on the ■ top of the coach went over, but was struck by another gentleman, who also endeavored to get dear, and the consequence w as the coach fell upon him, breaking one of iu= legs just above the ankle.