LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). • AUCKLAND. | Captain Thomas, of the cutter Start, died Igddenly on board at Ngairunguru. • The Rangitika, champion cutter of Auckand for years past, has been wrecked on the jlreat Barrier Reef. The crew were saved. Charles Fletcher, butcher committed suicide by drowning in the Mangatawhiri Creek on Saturday; deceased had been drinking heavily. The Doric arrived here on Saturday from London, after a passage of 49 days from Plymouth. She brings 42 saloon, 74 second, and 474 steel age passengers. She was quarantined on arrival, having measles on board, three children having died therefrom on the passage outj; seven children suffering from measles were landed at the quarantine station with their respective families. The Doric is anchored off the quarantine hulk. The Australia with the ’Frisco Mails arrived this morning. The Napier and Gisborne portion of the mails leave by the Taiaroa this evening. Mr London, formerly M.H.R. for the Bay of Islands, writes from Samoa that a great deal of discontent prevails there amongst both Europeans and natives with the nature of the Government, and that a petition would be generally signed praying that the Island should be annexed to New Zealand. The matter has been laid before Sir Geo. Grey, who recommends that the form of a petition be drawn up under the Annexation Act of last session, and forwarded to Mr Lundon to obtain signatures. The ‘ Daily Times ’ Company has declared a dividend of 8 per cent. The Kaitangata Railway Company a 10 per cent dividend. The latter carried L 3,212 to the reserve fund. A collier named William Ramsay, of Abbotsford, was killed yesterday morning by being thrown from a horse, he was a married man with a family. The Union Express boat Takapuna, sailed from Capetown on Friday, for New Zealand, via, Hobart. A lawn-tennis match between Dargaville and M‘Donald M.H.R.’a, and Dr. Bachelor and A. M‘Neil, of Dunedin, resulted in a victory for the former. The local reprelent&tives wera nervous at first but the Auckland gentlemen showed no symptons of this disorder. Another match is announced for Wednesday. NELSON. > The football match, Wanganui v. Nelson, was played here on Saturday, During the first spell Coakley, of Wanganui, had his leg Broken, and Smith, captain Wanganui team, was stunned but soon resumed the game. During the second spell the umpires were unable to agree respecting a try claimed by Nelson, and there being no referee appointed and neither umpire giving way, the Wanganui men left the ground and the Nelson captain claimed a victory. WELLINGTON. A Norwegian, named Galorieson, who deserted from the ship Oxford, on board which he was employed as sailmaker, was found on the beach at Oharin on Saturday, by two station hands, in a very exhausted condition. Galorieson asserts that he had not touched food for sixteen days, and that during that period he had seen a living soul. His feet present an of having been frost bitten. He sent into town, and subsequently to the hospital, where he received treatment.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1357, 18 September 1883, Page 3
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506LAST NIGHT’S WIRES. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1357, 18 September 1883, Page 3
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