INTERPROVICIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 216, 11 September 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVICIAL.

ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WELLINGTON. THEEE PERSONS KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED. Wellington, Saturday. News has just been received of an alarming railway accident on the WellingtonFeatherston line. A telegram received by the Government states that the Fflatherston train was blown over at Liberia (?). Two carriages and a van were wrecked and some passengers injured, but it is not known how many. Assistance has been sent up, and full particulars have been telegraphed for. I The railway accident is causing great excitement in town, as generally on Saturdays the trains are more crowded than on other days. A special train taking medical assistance left here at noon to-day. Later. Later information from the scene of the train disaster shows that the carriage had a drop of 70 feet. The engine and tender remained on the line. A late telegram received states that Miss Fharazyn, daughter of; a well known station owner at Wairarapa, wa? killed, a? also were two girls named Nicholas and Gunn. A large number have ! been injured, and it is feared that more are killed than reported. The train was from Featherston to Wellington. Later telegrams state that about six adults who were badly injured have been taken to the Greytown Hospital, and two other children of Messrs Pharazyn and Nicholas were taken on to Featherston. They were severely injured, but it is exI pected they "will recover. Wellington, Saturday. Dr Lemon received last night the following telegrams re the Sorata:— "Cape Jervis, noon. — The squalls have moderated a little. The Chimborazo is here with a tender, and hulk barque, and a tug is alongside with discharging pumps and gear for the Sorata. 3*30 p.m.— The sea still keeps down. The Chimborazo sailed at noon for Adelaide, after transhipping the pumps. Great hopes are expressed today of getting the Sorata afloat if the pumps can be worked." At the Drill Shed last night, O'Connor, of Timaru, walked one mile in 6mins 57secs. This is said to be the fastest time in the Australian Colonies. At 10 o'clock the 24 hours go as you please pedestrian match was started with nine competitors. At nine this morning only four were left, their positions being— Croft of Wellington, 64 miles; Brooks of Dunedin, 61 miles; Swan of Chmtchurch, 58 miles; and Hanson of Wellington, 58 miles. • . ... ■ j ». A woman named Jane Burgess has been missing from the residence of Christopher Hobbs, Horokiwi Valley, since the 7th inst. She left the house during the absence of Hobbs, who, on his return, found the following note :— " I am dead to this world ; don't trouble about me." In the walking match, at I*3o p.m. Croft bad done 84 miles 3 laps; Brooks, 82 miles 12 laps; Swan, 76 miles 3 laps; Hanson, 71 miles 14 laps. Auckland, Saturday. Robson, a publican, has been fined £2 for allowing Yankee Grab for drinks in hie hotel. The survey dispute between the natives on Firth's land has been amicably settled. The natives all around tbafc district exhibit unusual willingness to sell land. Great interest is taken, in- the football match, Wellington v. Auckland. The weatheris splendid, and the games commences at two o'clock. ; The Pacific Mail Company have reduced the fare through to England to £67. Smith, of the Occidental Hotel, was fined £10 for allowing gambling in his hotel. New Plymouth, Saturday. The Rangatira wreck enquiry was continued. After hearing the evidence, the Court said there was no blame to be attached to the engineer or second officer, but the master w»b culpable in not having kept a look out and In neglecting to use the log, but

the negligence was not sufficient, to warrant the suspending of his certificate. The chief officer was most to blame, and they consider him guilty of grosß .carelessness, jas he must have seen not only the New Plymouth light but also the light of the Hinemoa then lying in the roadstead. The chief officer's certificate'was ordered to be suspended for six months, and was ordered to be sent from Wellington. Christchurch, Saturday. An old Canterbury pilgrim named Dalton is dead. He arrived per ship Sir George Seymour in 1850, and for the last twenty years has been a successful farmer at Springston. Colonel Reader and inspector Broham paid an official visit yesterday to the Lyttelton Gaol. In reference to the Maori prisoners twenty-eight are on Ripa Island, and probably the otherß now at Lyttelton will tie removed there to make room fot others expected from the North.