PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3137, 23 November 1886, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

| UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Timaru, November 22. A man named Shilling had bis left ankle broken this evening, and otherwise slightly injured while assisting to raise the refrigerating machinery from the wreck of the ship Lyttelton. The puichasers of the wreck have now saved two boilers and the machinery from the wreck. Dunedin, November 22. A girl named Thompson, daughter of a icsident at Beaumont, was drowned while crossing the Clntha in a punt. A waggon with some six tons of merchandise which was on board, was thrown into the river, and the goods, value of about £250, lost. The puntsman and two other men who were in it when it broke away from the rope, were got ashore two miles down the river. The first Jewish baziar held in Dunedin, was opened this evening, when the hall was unable to accomolate the visitors, Julius Vogel delivered an address, in the course of which he replied to Bishop Neville’s recent utterances on bazaars. New Plymouth, November 22. Five persons have been poisoned by eating tinned fruit at a christening party. One is confined to bed and the others are suffering from the effects of poisoning. THE POISONING OF CAPTAIN CAIN. Wellington, November 22. It is stated that since the inquest on Captain Cain’s body some additional

evidence of a valuable character lias been obtained by the police, pointing to the possession by a certain person of tartar emetic (antimony) at the time of Captain Cain’s death. Proof of bow it was procured will probably be forthcoming, and the police will in the course of a few weeks be able to supplement a verdict of wilful murder by definitely accusing a suspected person and bringing him before the Police Court to answer for the crime.