North and South.

Manawatu Herald, 29 December 1894, Page 3

North and South.

On Christmas eve two men Were drowned at Ngahauranga. A Permanent Artilleryman Alfred Withers informed the police that Frederick Simmons, of Murphy street, storeman to the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and Henry Stirling, a seaman in the employ of the U.S.S. Co. had been drowned, and that he had rescued Walter F. Ballytine, of Bally tine Bros., Napier, \ybq was in a very exhausted conditipn. According to Bally tine's account of the accident it appears that the soil was left get as the boat was at anchor, and while Simmons and Sterling were sitting on the gun« wale on the windward side a gU3t of wind came down one of the gullies and overturned the boat. Bally tine was near the bow and got thrown into the water, but it is conjectured that the other two men were tangled in the rigging as the vessel sank. A man named John Boyle was run over by a train near the Dunedin railway station on the 26th, and is not expected to recover On Wednesday night a cowardly assault was committed in the fore castle of the Kaikoura upon the quartermaster, Mr Harris, says the Times. It is not clear how the affair started, but it appears that four or five of the firemen, who cherished a grudge against Harris for having given assistance to the police on a previous occasion, set upon him, one ol them attacking him with a bottle and another with a sai'oi's knife. Some men, alarmed by Harris' cries, went to his assistance, and probably saved him from fatal injuries. As it is, he has received a jagged wound on the fere arm, a large pieco cf flesh has been cut out of the other arm, and there are incised wounds j all over the back and top of the j head. The police were coinmuni- ; cated with, and Constables Johnston i and Smith went on board and av-* rested two men named George Todd and Jeremiah Crawley, who will be j charged at the Police Court. j

Mr Dilworth, of Auckland, by his will, leaves £500 to the Young Men's Christian Association, £250 to the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, £100 a year to the Jubilee Kindergarten, £100 a year to the Bishop for the augmentation of the stipends of the country clergy, and bequests to relatives and servants. The residue of the property is bequeathed upon trust for founding and endowing the Dihvorth Ulster Institute, for the training of boys who are either orphans or children of parents in straitened circumstances resident in the provincial district of Auckland and the province of Ulster, Ireland. Twenty-five acres on Mount Hobson, near Auckland, are reserved for the site of the Institute.