PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3122, 4 November 1886, Page 3

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

[united PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wanganui, November 3. On Monday night a sailor named John Oarnegi, of the schooner Owake Bell, rescued a lad named Lingy from drowning. The boy had fallen from the wharf and was just sinking for the last time when attention was called to him and Carnegi Jumped overboard as he was and succeeded in getting hold of him. When ashore the boy soon recovered. Auckland, November 2, The 8.8. Arawata brings nows that the volcanic disturbance at Minatoto, Tonga, had subsided, but that the new volcanic island recently formed there •v? s in an active state of eruption, Wellington, November 3, Those Maori prisoners who were sentenced to a month’s imprisonment at last criminal session were released today, looking all the better for their incarceration. Te Whili has still two months to serve. TOTAL WRECK OF THE STEAMER TUI. Wellington, November 2. The steamer Tui, fifty.6ve tons, Captain Pape, left Wellington wharf abom midnight for Foxton, having on board the following passengers Mr and Mis Odling, Miss Irvine, Mr Scott, Mr J. L. Clellan and two sthera. About one o clock, when the steamer was off Pencarrow lighthouse, she struck a reef, sinking in five minutes. The passengers and crew succeeded in getting ashore at the pilot station in two boats belonging t« the steamer, and were brought into town at six o’clock this morning.