INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 220, 17 September 1877, Page 2

INTE RPROVINCIAL.

[PRESS AGENCY.]

A CHILD ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS HIS FATHER.

Blenheim, Monday. Yesterday Richard Moss was returning from duck shooting, when he was met by his child, who while walking alongside " him pulled the trigger of his gun. The shot entered Moss' right side, passing out above the scapula. He died in a few hours. Auckland, Saturday. The Coronet, from Tahiti, brings a valuable cargo of cotton, lime juce, and copra. Captain Rose reports that the irou ship Ada Ircdale, which left Ardrossan with coal for San Francisco on the Isth Juue, IS7G, was abandoned in flames, the crew suffering great hardships for twenty-six days. Tho ship was towed into Passette Harbor, Tahiti, mi the 20th June of this year, still burning, after eight months' tossing about, during which she had drifted 6U() miles. She was picked up close to land by the French frigate Seiguely. Arrived— Belle E. Brandon from Sanni Island, and Active from Tonga and Samoa. The latter brings very little additional war news. The fighting was entirely stopped, hut great damage had been done to the cocoa-nut and bread-fruit plantations. At Pavai ifc was estimated that 35,000 trees had been wantonly destroyed. The Active brings the following whaling news: —The Alsca was at Vavau on the 14th August with two humpbacks ; the Splendid, of Duuedin, had taken four humpbacks ; the James Arnold at Hepeka Ilapai on August 22 bad 360 barrels of humpback and a large quantity of sperm oil. She caught three whales while the Active was there ; the Magellan Cloud, of Auckland, was at

Tongabu on the 27th August. She had captured five fish, and .hid 300 barrels. of oil. Ou the 26th she made fast to a cow and calf, but the second mate in lancing accidentally cat the line, and the fish escaped. The Isabella, of Wellington, had been unfortunate through defective equipment. The boats had made fast ''to fourteen whales, all of which escaped but two. At one time the crew ran short of provisions, and had nofc money to buy any, but got a fish when friends and money arrived in the Bay of Plenty.