PROVINCIAL NEWS

Kumara Times, Issue 2825, 21 October 1885, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS

[united press association.] Napier, October 19. A fatal accident occurred in the roadstead on Sunday evening. As the schooner Waiwera was coming into the bay a butcher supplying the shipping put off in a flat-bottomed boat in company with a lad and a boatman named Hayes, better known as "Port Wioe Jack." Oo reaching the schooner the butcher and the lad went on board leaving Jack in the boat, which was being towed behind. A sudden gust of wind sprung up, which, tautening the painter, capsized the boat. The accident was not observed for some little time, and when observed the boat was bottom up, and there were no signs of Jack Hayes. The body has not been recovered. Dunedin, October 19. A man named Knox was drowned while crossing the Taieri river near Hindoo, on Saturday. He lost an oar and in trying to recover it fell out of the boat. Auckland, October 17. I The Queen of Raratonga, Prince Consort, and party left for Waikato on a visit to Tawhiao at the Kingite head quarters at Whatiwhatihoe. The party have definitely decided to return home by the Janet Nicoll on Friday next. Constable Christie bravely jumped over the reclamation breast-work at midnight, and rescued a man named James Connell, who fell over drunk. This makes the sixth life saved by Christie in the colony. VOLUNTEER INSPECTION. Nelson, October 17. The Volunteers of the Nelson district were inspected to-day by Sir George Whitmore. The weather was glorious, and each of the city companies mustered exceedingly well. In all, three hundred and twenty were on parade, and all absent were accounted for as absent from the place or sick. Colonel Pitt and Major "Webb were in command, and in addition to marching past and performing battalion movements, the force was put through manual and and bayonet exercise. Sir George complimented the men upon thoir remarkable muster, and expressed opinion that the Nelson battalion was fully equal to any he had seen. With the College Cadets he was especially well pleased. This was the first cadet corps he has inspected. Sir George leaves for Blenheim on Tuesday next, having deferred his visit to the West Coast till later in the season. SEVERE GALES AND LOSS OP LIFE. Christchurch, October 20. The baiqup Dragon, Captain Mil nor, and the ship Waikato, Captain W. H. Taylor, which arrived at Lyttelton today, from London, both encountered

gales during their passage, and each lost a man overboard. The Dragon left London on July 6, and all went well till October Ist, when in a violent gale a big sea broke aboard and washed the man at the wheel overboard. Owing to the tremendous sea running at the time, nothing could be done to save the life of the unfortunate man, who was a Dane, named Emil Nanrotski. The Waikato had sailed two days earlier; on September 13 she fell in with a heavy gale off Tristan d'Acunhii, during which the main tack was carried away, striking the carpenter, James Bass, and knocking him overboard. He sank almost immediately; and must have been killed by the blow. Both vessels are consigned to the New Zealand Shipping Company.