PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3146, 3 December 1886, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

'Vm'ED PHKSS ASSOCIATION.!

"Wellington, December 2

The R.M.S. Aorangi arrived at the Heads at 6.20 a.m. to-day and steamed

ilireot into port, her draught being 22 feet aft. She still maintains her reputation, having made the passage steaming from Plymouth in 39 days 4 hours 50 minutes, She brings 200 tons of cargo for all ports, together with 305 passengers and 285 hags of mails.

Arrived, ship Torakina, 99 davßfrom London. At noon on the 7th of No. vember, while the whip was going 9J knots, there being a heavy sea, John Sullivan, A. 8., while stowing the jib, fell overboard. The second officer, who was on deck, brought the ship to the wind and hove a life-buoy over, but the unfortunate man was never seen on the surface, the ship apparently going over him after fal ing. The men stowing the jib with him state that he had a fit when he fell. Sullivan was 22 years of age, and was last in the ship at Dunedin.

Christchurch, December I.

A Mr W. J. Woodward, who left Christchurch for Kimberley, writing from the goldfields, Hays that the gold obtained up to the preseut has been unearthed at the cost of £SO an ounce. Nearly all the gold-seekers from Christchurch have sold off their belongings and gone back to Derby.

December 2.

Yesterday Martin, Crown Prosecutor, while shooting at Waiau with a snider rifle and Auckland ammunition the cartridge exploded, blowing nW ay the breach block, which narrowly missed his face, which was somewhat, scorched by thes powder.

This morning a saddler's shop at Lincoln belonging to J. T. Finn was burned. It, was insured for £250 in the Phoenix. The cause is unknown.

There have lately been complaints of children being seen in a state of intoxication, and the police have decided to take proceedings against two publicans for supplying liquor to boys.