LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1353, 8 September 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(from our own correspondent). DUNEDIN. The Rev. Lindsay Mackie, Pastor of the Presbyterian First Church died last night aged 34. Only thirty-seven men have sought work it Mullocky Gully works during the past fortnight, nine of those w'ho took a prominent part in the agitation have availed themselves of the opportunity. The tender of Messrs Kincaid and M‘Queen his been accepted for the ironwork connecti >n with the new Dunedin Railway Bridge, amount not disclosed yet. WELLINGTON, The cutter Three Brothers, owned by Geo Thorne, was wrecked at Kapiti during the gale on Wednesday. The crew was landed sifely. There was no insurance on the vessel. A cottage in Sussex Square, owned and occupied by James Turner, was destroyed by lire last evening. The fire was caused by the upsetting by the kerosene lamp. A strong southerly gale commenced yesterday, accompanied by heavy rain,

AUCKLAND. A little girl named Katie Fernandez, daughter of the proprietor of the Britemarte Hotel, was accidentally killed last evening. She went up a ladder to the upper storey on to the roof, and whilst feeding the pigeons fell through the skylight head first down to the open court thirty feet below, expiring immediately. WESTPORT. While the steamer Grafton from Nelson was coming up the harbor last night she touched the bank in the north channel, and stuck on the flat. No damage to the hull has been sustained, and she will most likely be got off to-day. CHRISTCHURCH. James Walls, an old colonist, well-known as a breeder of Clydesdales, died on Wed* nesday from an attack of apoplexy. HAWERA. The charge of child murder against Josephine Green was proceeded with yesterday. Detective Benjamin and Constable Manning, of Bulls; Motley, of Woodville; and McNulty, of Foxton, have given evidence. They deposed that they had made exhaustive enquiries, but had been unable to discover anything of Williams, the reputed father of the missing child. Constable Motley, who is postal officer at Woodville, said that no letter had been received there for Williams for twelve montl ■ past, except one a month ago, and that hud not been called for. The case is not finished yet.