PROVINCIAL NEWS

Kumara Times, Issue 3120, 2 November 1886, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS

[UNITED PRESS ASSOfiIATION.I Wellington, November 1. r lhe Postmaster-General has been through nearly all the tenders for new mail services. The tenders on the whole have been plentiful, and a saving of £2OOO for the year is likely to be effected. In some cases tenders have not been received, and the existing services will be renewed. In other cases all the tenders being higher, lower prices will be insisted upon. The Minister for Public Works expects to visit the West Coast of the South Island, also Southland, Otago and Oai.terbuiy, and will be absent about six weeks. He returns about Christmas, and after the holidays will probably go north. The police are still prosecuting inquires as to how Captain Cain came by his death. The Alameda, with the English mails of the 7th October, left ’Frisco for Auckland on the 24th October, a day late. 1 Tile Mariposa, with the Colonial mai s of the 12th October, arrived at ’Frisco from Auck'and on the 30th October, two days in advance of timetable date. Oamaru, November 1. A man named Jno. Alcherley, eng-rged at Redcastle, made a deliberate attempt to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor yesterday. He is in a critical state, and is to he removed to the hospital. Auckland, November 1. It is stated that a warrant is out for Albert Walker, one of the trio referred to by Judge Ward on a charge of forget y. He is believed to have left the colony. The Egyptian fair and bazaar at Trinity Church, Devonport, tealised £528. Palmerston North, November 1. A serious accident happened to a child named Doreen, daughter of a local resident, on Saturday. The child was playing by the fire in the absence of its parents, when the dress was caught by the flames, which sptead rapidly, and they were only extinguished by some passers by, when she had been fearfully burned about the legs and back. It is thought she will die of the effects. The child is at piesent in an unconscious state.