INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 178, 27 August 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[truss agency.] Nai'ier, Monday. Yesterday a man, named Thomas Hall, attempted suicide in the Waipara lock-up, by cutting his throat. He severed the windpipe but did not cut any artery. He was brought to the Napier Hospital to-day. Hall had been taken to Waipara, from Hampden, on suspicion of being insane, but neither doctor nor police thought so. Port Chalmers, Monday. Sailed— Hawea. Passengers for Nelso'n— Mr and Mrs Oliver, Mrs Jones, and Miss Burns. Christchurch, Tuesday. At a meeting of the City Council last night a Committee was appointed to consider the necessity of remodelling the office staff. For some time past there has been a feeling among a section of the Council that the working of its officers had been very unsatisfactory. The meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday to consider the Customs tariff was adjourned in consequence of a somewhat thin attendance. Miss Fidler to-day opens her school for cookery. Dunedin, Tuesday. The Mayor and Corporation intend accepting the invitation of the Christchurch Mavor to be present at the banquet in Christchurch to the northern visitors. A shock of earthquake on Saturday was very distinctly felt at Portobello. The houses seemed to stagger as from a heavy blow rather than a wave-like motion. A Carnival in aid of the Benevolent Institution will be opened by the Mayor on September 7th. It will continue for a week. Bluff, Tuesday. Arrived: Ringarooma. She left Melbourne on the 21st, and Ilobarton on the 23rd, arrived off the Solanders at ten last night, and steamed slowly through the Straits, arriving here early this morning. She experienced westerly gales with high seas for two days, after which fresh southerly winds to arrival. She briugs 31 saloon and 12 steerage passenl gers, and 400 tons of cargo for all ports. She sails at 4 p.m. for Dunedin. Passengers for Nelson: Messrs Gray and Bayleyand Miss Bayley. New Plymouth, Tuesday. A passenger by the Tui steamer writes to the Taranaki Herald and states that on the 13th inst., they put into Guard's Bay during a gale, and found the schooner Atlanta there there, at that time four weeks out from fl| bound f or Manakau. They had run o^?f food, and the Captain said that he and the crew had to subsist on fish and mussels for nearly a fortnight. The Atlanta was not damaged in any way. He believed that she was still lying at shelter in one of the inlets of Cook's Straits. A piece of a ship's rail has been picked up on the Henui beach about 5 feet long and 3J inches thick, supposed to have belonged to a vessel of from 150 to 200 tons. It had only been in the water a short time as the green paint on it is quite fresh.