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INTERPROVINCIAL. y .„,. fri ■. -, Motueka, Monday. p James Plumridge was found dead in Thosp's creek yesterday about noon. , Port Chalmers, Monday, : The Christian M*Ausiand was towed in yesterday, she has 356 souls, equal to 283^ adults on board. There were 7 deaths on the way, all children, also 3 births. : •■'- One seaman died from pneumonia, and one was lost overboard, falling from the main' royal yard when the ship was going thirteen knots. The diseases were only whooping cough and chicken-pox. Dunedin, Monday. Captain Duncan and: tbe chief officer of the! Christian M'Ausland were assaulted by four seaman while crossing the equator. The passengers prevented a mutiny. The mutineers will be given into custody. , . Dodd, the second nWe of the Oneco, was charged on Saturday at £ort Chalmers, with the murder of a seaman, on the passage from New York. The case was adjourned until Thursday. The criminal sessions commenced to-day. There are eight prisoners for trial. ' : < y Wellington, Monday. -• Mrs Yogel and family will proceed ; by the Otago on her next trip, to Mel- ' bourne. • ; ; ' ■,r -' -The -"New Zealand Steam' Shipping Company have decided not to break up their fleet of steamers. They have sent home loi' specifications 'and -esifc* mates for putting new compound engines into the Taranaki and, Wellington, but if the work can be done reasonably io-tnis colony they will have it tfqoejhere. .- .• ; ... -, ,■ . The prospectus of the Independent, ' a new penny morning paper, is published. Christchurch, Monday. The Press of this morning contains the following parapraph: — The correspondent who sent us a communication lately, describing the capture of two moas. has forwarded : a. letter which reports that the birds have esdaped.Tbat is just wbat,\pe expected to ,hgar* E. K. M. Srayihe may find it very easy to catch moas somewhere near, Brown- r ; ing's Pass, but the difficulty is to bring them to. Christchurch, or to some other inhabited region, and we feel pretty sure that be will never succeed in accomplishing that. Westport, Monday. The threemasted schooner St., Hilda, froto Melbourne, sailed in over the bar this morning without signals. She found 21 feet of water.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 236, 5 October 1874, Page 2
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