INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 83, 28 November 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Sunday. Thomas Noonan, the butcher of the Hero, late last night went to visit bis sweetheart, a domestic servant atMr Eeatherston's North Shore, and, failing to obtain an entrance, he fell asleep on the verandah. Being discovered and mistaken for a burglar, he got badly maltreated by the inmates of the house before the mistake was discovered. His arm is stated to b 3 broken. flaw Plymouth, Monday. Yesterday morniDg a fatal accident occurred in the Woitara Eiver resulting in the death of William Ody and his wife They, wilh their little child seven weeks old, were in a «ailing boat on the iiver, the wife gteeriug, when the bo** " jibed " and the mainsail knocked her overboard. Ody jumped into the iiver after hia wife who clang to him, and after a struggle they ware drowned. Ths man's body was recovered three hoars afterwards, bat up to a late hour laat eight the woman had not been found. The child was in the boat and was recovered; alivs. Lathi*. Tha body of Mrs Ody was picked up this morning on the iiver bank a little belcw the old eittle wharf. William Ody who was drowned in the Waitara was from Greymouth, and had for I some time been trading to the West Coast | from Lyttelton. The child hag been adopted by a settler at Waitara. Hiroki was brought up at the Police Court thu morning when Dr O'Carroll gave evidence as to the prisoner having an old wound above the hip bone.— Richard Birch corroborated Mr Frszer's evidence, adding ibat the prißwoar wore a cap like the one produced. — lne case is proceeding. tt. o* , Christchdrcii, Monday, John Stee'e, an elderly patient at the hospital, was found drowned in one of the bath rooms yesterday, It is not known whether he committed suicide or fell into the bath while in a fit. A man Mined Colburn, formerly mat* on board the Portland, and since on the Exa miner, was found dead on the sand hills at Kaiapoi yesterday. The cause of death is not yet known A dead body believed to be that of a man named William Thomas, wag found floating in the Avon this morning. Dunedik, MoDdsy. H. E. Mclntosh, manager of the Wai ton Park Coal Company, hats been arrested frr forgery. Tbe defalcation! amount to £1600. Arrived^Shlp Danedin, Capt. Whitton : all well, r '