North and South.

Manawatu Herald, 13 December 1894, Page 3

North and South.

The Premier received a telegram from Tawhiao's successor, the new Maori King Mahutu, asking for an interview, The Premier replied that he would be in_Jlamilton on Monday, and that Mfthutu could see him there if he liked. At the Palmerston District Court Judge Kettle made severe strictures regarding bankrupts who had not kept books, and suspended the certificate of one contractor for two years. A quantity of wreckage—consisting of American pine, the topmast of a large ship and topgallant yard a pieoe of a spanker boom, and part of a capstan— has been washed ashore at Preservation Inlet. The wreckage has evidently not been long in the water. It is feared in Danedin that the wrepkage found at Peeservation Inlet is that of the barque Firth of Forth, which sailed from New York for Dunedin and Lyttelton on August 11. The Ohristchurch Cathedral spire, it is found, was injured by the reoent earthquake. The damage, which can easily be remedied, conlists of a crack in the part thrown down by the heavy earthquake a few years ago, and:. since restored in firebriok. Two men named Thomas Bundell and James Coles were drowned near the' mouth of the Waiau river at noon on Monday by the capsizing of a boat in which they were fishing for flounders. Bundell leaves a wife and sis children in Invercargill. Coles was single", and a sawmill hand residing at Colao Bay.