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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 108, 14 April 1883, Page 3

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INTERPROVINCIAL ■ — * — (UNITJED PBESS ASSOOIATIOH . ) Timaru, Ajril 13. John Robertson, chief officer of the ship -Margaret Galbraith, was knocked by a sling of coals from the ship's bulwarks into a lighter, and bad his leg badly smashed. A farmer named James Mclntyre fell dead m an hotel at Pleasant Point yesterday. ;-A : verdict of death from natural causes was returned. .-■••■■ Oamaru, April 13. A fire occurred at Kurow on Tnesday last, by which the. stables of Mr Goddard, coach proprietor, were burnt to the ground. The building, harness, &o. r were insured for £300 m the New Zealand Office. The cause of the fire is unknown, but it is believed to have been accidental* - ■ . Dunbdin, April 13. At the Harbor Board to-day a letter was received, signed by Messrs Green and Bracken, M. H. R.s, and about fifty other persons, asking that they should be received as a depuiation to hold a friendly conference as to the works for the improvement -of the harbor. The board declined to receive the proposed deputation. The same body carried a 'resolution to-day giving the City Council twelve months notice to forbid them discharging sewage into the harbor; : The first of a Beries of lectures to prisoners m the gaol wa^ given to-night by the Rev. Dr Roseby on comets. 'Other gentlemen will continue the series, which is given by permission of the Minister of Justice. ■ -The man Williams, who was< so seriously injured by the accident on the Deep Stream section of the Otago Central railway, died on Tuesday Ist. '■:■ A special ireeiing of the Harbor -Board is to be held on Tuesday to consider the question whether the proposed operations for the improvement of the Vbar,' as designed by the' hew engineer (Mr Barr) shall be let m one large t contract or be divided into three. >fT -Ab f a* meeting of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce to-day,- the following resolution was carried: — "In reference to the letters which have been written to various journals by Mr Thomas 0. Guthrie, respecting the freight he is prepared to .accept from Glasgow toQtago, this committee is of opinion that if he and those he proposes to represent will not take the current rates of freight j the merchants of (his port will be content to take their chance of other lines,j>f vessele." - C.HRISTOHURCH, April 13. The annual meeting of the Cddfel- < lows of tlie Ashley district, was heli at itangibra yesterday. G..M. Crampton, m opening 1 his address, stated that the J Bick^and ■ funeral - fund amounted • to £4977 — an increase of £500 since last °year.'^Members, 456 — an- increase, of ; -83. 1 ' A: by-law was ; passed, allowing (i inembers ; ? who -pay double to have benefit. ■. ; An inquiry into the bumping of the barque Monarch on Port Chalmers bar was held yesterday. The captain blames the harbor authorities, «and Pilot Kelly intends to apply for a magisterial hear-; ing .of the case m Dunedin. The amount- involved* m damage to the ship] "demurrage, &c., will probably not fall tar *hprfcof £2000* - av/ii-ih <lj, 13. ; .A nautical inquiry was held yesterday into the .cause of the barque Thames Bbrifciug a "sunken rock off Tiri-tir. Th | ...Court, eaid, although there might be a 'wani' "of caution on" the ; part; ofrthe captain, still, taking into consideration „ ,-tbat. the rock was. nipt on. the chart, and ; - ihat there was six fathoms of water close to the rock;' they did^ not think the master was to blame. The Court made * i: no (J 6rder regarding cost?. '' ?Ii ' .Nelson, April 13. ~ By the Wanaka. yesterday a shipment of mountain Woiii was received here. - liSChey * have arrived at Auckland by - the j last tf an Francigco- steamer. On open r ing thai case to-day all the ice was found c to : have dissolved, and the fish were: ,r completely ; rotten. ?-• This is' the third j successive steamers and arranged for by^MriJ. -Kerr which has proved a failure:— o-fy The director's, of J the Kelson Building Societjihaveideclared a dividend for, the. past half-year at the rate of 1\ per cent. .oper annum.: ■; ; ' ; , ; ;