INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 200, 23 August 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dombdibt. Monday. Tha Rer. W. Johnstone, Presbyterian minister at Fort Chalmers, died yesterdsy. Tuesday. The Union Company have heen advised of the sailing ot the Chimborazo from Plymouth en tbe Slat instant. with 34f passengers. Nxw Plthodth, Monday. A meeting of tha Working Men's Society was held on Saturday erening, when orer 200o;(?) men were prest-nt. It was resolved to send a petition to the House and the Legislative Council aeking that the harbor works be not stopped duriug the enquiry to be msde by the Royal Commission. The petition wbb signed by 600 men. WBixxwaToiT, Monday. Seren boxes of tobacco, each weighing about fifty pounds, were discovered by Detective Benjamin this afternoon, planted underneath * dwelling house in Frederick street. Walter Lee, on whose premises the tobacco was found, has been arrested, and will he charged with having unstamped boxes of tobacco in his possession. The police hare been aware of the plant for some time, and hare been watching the spot with a view of implicating others, but without success. Tuesday. Walter Lee pleaded guilty to having unstamped boxea of tobacco in his possession, tte was remanded for sentence until Thursday. Chkistchdroh, Tuesday. By a boat accident in Akaroa harbor on Friday last, two Maoris lest their lives. The annual session of the Diocesan Synod opens this afternoon. Johnny Hydes writes to the Timea tbis morning that Hooper, that actor, who committed suicide at Dunedin, was uot in destitute circumstances as Mrs Hooper left money with bim when she ieft for Chmtchurch last year. He aIBO states tbat Hooper was offered employment by Bandmann, and Hamilton and Wills, but for some unknown reasons declined both oflers. Rain set ia from the south-westjaet night and snow fell for about two hours this morning. AooKLiiro, Tuesday. Mr Stanary has returned from tha wreck of theßona. He went south of tbe wreck, but found nothing. He then traversed from tbe wreck to the Sooth Head, about ten miles, parallel to a shelly beach and here he found the body of a young man about 5 feet 9 with Rood teeth, light hair, end no whiskers. All the flesh was gone off the body except the hands and feet. It was possiMy washed off by the action of the tide. A pair of white drawers were hanging from one leg, worsted socks with white tops, and half sohd elastic boots. He had no other clothing. He also found one of the ship's hatches lying twenty yards away hißh up on the beach. Fire miles farther north he found one of the vessel's coir wsrps; Two miles north of that a keg of butter and a mug. There was ao sign of a boat anywhere. It is erident thst the vessel capsized at sea and tbat tbe man whose body has been found tried to «ome ashore on the batch but was washed off in the surf, there being no other piece of wreckage witbin five miles of the body. Mr Stanary dag a hole above high water and buried the hody with the booming of the aurf for the burial service. Ha brought np portions of tha hand and Intends forwarding them to Auckland for identification. I'rotn the daieriptioo of the body found it is neither ihat of Captain Kennety McKenzie or his mate Smith as they wer# both about i.x feet high and the formes «r« dark omplexioned ,