INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 176, 24 August 1878, Page 2

INTERPRO VINCIAL.

Tpbess agency.l Ahaura, Friday. Three valuable horses were drowned in endeavoring to cross the Junction Grey River. The driver, George Page, is a very steady man. He had to swim ashore and with difficulty escaped, and is now confined to bed. He had got over the first crossing of the Grey River, but on reaching the second ford he found it too high and tried to return, when the current swept the horses and dray down the stream, and the dray is lost. Mr Alcorn is proprietor of the horses and dray, and estimates his loss at £120. Page was engaged in drawing timber for the Grey Junction Bridge, for the erection of which tenders were recently accepted by the Government. The Grey ford is always dangerous with the least fresh. Dunedin, Eriday. Oats, 3s lOd to 4s ; wheat, 4s ; barley. 5s to 5s 6d ; pollard, £G ; bran, £5 10s ; flour, £10 10s to £11; oatmeal, £20; potatoes. £6 10s. ' MrsM'Cowan, who cut her throat with a knife at Maori Hill on Sunday, died in the Hospital yesterday. A person named Robert Keinie, who was released some time ago from the Lunatic Asylum, and who ha3 since been in the city with his family, became possessed of the idea that it was his duty to cut the throat of one of his children, and for that purpose he procured a razor, but instead of carrying his extraordinary idea into effect, he voluntarily proceeded as quickly as possible to the Lunatic Asylum, and with the razor in his hand demanded admittance. He was detained until the arrival of the police, who conveyed him to the lockup, and after medical evidence had been taken, he was committed to his old quarters in the Asylum. Wellington, Eriday. The Public Works Statement will in all probability be delivered on Tuesday night. The Government will telegraph it to the newspapers. Oamaru, Eriday. Best milling wheat, 3s 9d ; oats, 3s 8d to 3s lOd ; malting barley, 5s Id ; flour, £11 to £11 10s; oatmeal £20, Pollard £5 10s. Eoxton, Eriday. At the Coroner's inquest to-day, on the body of Mrs Richard Taylor, who jumped overboard from the steamer Jane Douglas, a verdict of manslaugnter was returned against the nurse and purser of the steamer, who had been sworn in as special constables.