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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1237, 2 January 1883, Page 2

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(FROM OUR OWN AUCKLAND, The schooner Gisborne arrived 28th Dec., with 600 sacks maize, 50 fungus, 2 casks oil, 30 hides, 60 pigs, quantity of sundries, and eight Captain Skinner reports having left on the 15th Dec., and ran down to and discharged cargo. One of the gere died on Tologa, so »he ran on to and landed the body; then worked back to Tologa; finished discharging ran up to Awanui and Waiuku, and with maize as above; and sailed for land, culling at Kawakawa and Orete, Ing the last place on the 24th. Had weather throughout the trip. [FEB UNITED FEEU ASIOCUTION]. I ■ WELLINGTON, fills Yesterday some children were a wagon on the Railway Wharf, end eight years old, the son of Ready, fell off, and the wheel his neck. Death was instantaneous, The Acting Governor and Sir Julius left in the Te Anau for Lyttelton, to the opening of the dock. Splendid weather for the holiday yez: The Beer duty last year for the £58,591, being 3d. per gallon on gallons, Major Atkinson is indisposed, end postpone ills departure for Taranaki ’ expected to go by coach in a day or two. , Mr Bryce returns to Wellington night; and Mr Whitaker is expected to here before the arrival of Sir Wm. Mr Rolleston will be absent from J ton for some time, as he will make a , the Otago goldfields. , The writ for the Peninsula seat, , rendered vacant by the deatk of Mr was issued on the 23rd ult., and is , by the 27th of this month. ffigj Upwards of 100 applications hare by local bodies under the Road and Construction Act. A large number are incomplete. . i CHRISTCHURCH, This A man named John D. Gay, commit suicide yesterday by opening t vessel in his arm, but the injuries not of a serious character. A fatal accident occurred on the Christchurch railway yesterday. After train that left Lyttelton at 12.% pm. Hillsbro, the stationmaster noticed thing which he at first took to be a lying on the line about 200 yards in th<M rection of Christchurch. An •bowed that this was the the body of aIH I fearfully mangled ; his skull was split ofl and crushed at the back, both lege wereH I off below the knee, and cut to pieoes by H wheels of the train. The stationmaster ■ the body removed from the rails, and s«H message of tbe occurrence to ChristohtlM A truck was sent down and the body tsM to the morgue, where it awaits The only clue to deceased's given in a bill found in his out James Tto npeon. The it appears got into the train ■ and was tbe only occupant of riages, being there when the - his ticket at Heathcote. The that the man met his death in to step from one carriage to the train was moving. There are s tween the rails with occasional > blood about a chain the spot where . was found, evidently showing - ling from the platform deceased - dragged along before he was : gaged. ________