INTERPROVINCIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 241, 2 December 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

Christciiurch, Thursday. At at the inquest on the body of Fuller, the Hospital patient, who in a fit of delirium tremens made bis escape and was drowned, the jury found that deceased had drowned himself while in a fit of temporary insanity, adding a rider to tha effect that there was neglect on the part of the Hospital officers i in not securing him. A verdict of accidental death was returned in the case of freeman who was killed on Ihe tramway yesterday. ' There are 171 persons regularly receiving charitable aid in Canterbury. The Rangiora Local Industrial Association holds its Exhibition this month, extending over four days. , The,.weather la dull and threatening. Paihipi Waikiui, a Maori lad of sixteen years, has been committed for trial for horso stealing. He is supposed to be insane. Ddnedin, Wednesday. Grand Stand Handicap — Handwick 1 ; Hilarious 2 ; Dolly Baron 3. Won by a length. Adamant won the Consolation Handicap. Bluff, Thursday. The Albion arrived at 10 a.m., having left Melbourne at 2 p.m. on the 27th November. She sails at 5 p.m. for Dunedin. A cutter arrived from Stewart's Island this morning reports the discovery of a goldbearing quartz reef running from Fort William to Patterson^ Inlet The specimens show gold Clearly. Several cutters were chartered specially to convey residents to Riverton yesterday to obtain miners' rightß. The prospectors quietly obtained a grant of land a week ago, and have pegged off most of the supposed line of reef. Wellington, Thursday, j The Times' Greytown correspondent writes that on Monday night while in conversation with Mr Hi rah berg who had then just returned bia the Manawatu Gorge from Wanganui, Mr Hirshber? told him that on the previous Friday a large number of Maoris had come down the Wangaoui Kiver with wool and produce, some of them having come from 100 miles inland from the district wherein, as stated, the pakeha Moffatt was recently shot. He entered into conversation with them and one of them, addressing Mr . Hirshberg, said:—" Look here, you pakehas think Moffatt is dead. I bet you Moffatt not dead. I bet you in two months yon see Moffatt be alive." GisnoßNß, Thursday. Mr William Clark, who floated the South Pacific Petroleum Oil Company, i3 at present negotiating witk the natives of the East Coast, and has succeeded in obtaining the consent and signatures of a large number of the native owners to a deed of conveyance of a portion of the Rotomahana Block to him for oil boring purposes. ; The Lochnagar has been moved 200 feet seaward, and, if the tide and wind continue ' favorable, she will soon be afloat. v