PROVINCIAL.
Auckland, August 22. Thomas Stanley, master of the cutter Euphemia, has been drowned at Port Albert. A close holiday was observed yesterday on the occasion of the review of the Thames Volunteers. The Industrial Exhibition was opened in the evening with great eclat. Amongst the exhibits there were nine from Nelson. Otago tweed and cod-liver oil were sent from Dunedin. A daily paper was published in the Exhibition entitled the Industrial Gazette. Arrived : French barque Menhier, from Newcastle. Wellikgtoit, August 22, 11.40 a.m. At 3 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the barque City of Newcastle, and obtained a good hold before it was extinguished. Incendiarism is | suspected, as two kerosene tins were found with holes punctured in them as with a sheath knife, and traces of oil , were found from the galley to the forecastle. Jonh Ranie, a scman, has been arrested on suspicion. John (iuildford, a fi.-eman, fell down the hatchway and broke his back, and is since dead. 12.40 pra. John Raino has been brought befure the Magistrate and remanded. Arnott, lute proprietor of the Wairarapa Mercury, has died suddenly, and is supposed to have committed suicide. He leaves a wife but no children.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 200, 22 August 1872, Page 2
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200PROVINCIAL. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 200, 22 August 1872, Page 2
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