LAST NIGHT'S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 10, 17 November 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S WIRES.

(FROM OUB OWN COBRIBJONDINY). I NAPIER. An enquiry was held thia morning befort the Collector of Customs and Qaptata Gleadow, into the unfortunate boat acadent of Sunday afternoon. Several witniessH have been examined. The decision JWM , given, exonerating Captain Setton from blame in the matter, he having acted unmsM instructions from the Harbor Master. to the present time none of the bodies losM on Sunday havs been found. WELLINGTON, yesterday. The lonic sailed for Lyttelton at 6.80 this evening, Ths whole of the single girls who arriveoby her have been engaged. Mr W. M. Crompton has been appointed 1 Deputy-Sheriff for Taranaki; Mr U. Mays I has been appointed Immigration Officer for ' Auckland. The Wellington Freezing Company shipJed 5,021 sheep and lamb carcases by the onlc, and 144 pieces of beef. The Wellington Meat Preserving end Refrigerating Company, Limited, capital £50,000, was registered to-day. It takes over the butchering and meat preserving business of J. and ±L Barber and Wood, Crosbie and Co. I It is understood that the official aesignoM will meet in London about the third of December, to interview Mr Connollyy and also to confer amongst themselves as tothe uniform mode of procedure. DUNEDIN, yesterday. In the totalisator cases, Burnett was fined 50s and costs, or two month’s imprisonment. The defence called no witnesses. In all the other cases, except the two which were dismissed, the defendants were fined 20e and costs. , Major Atkinson left for Invercargill by special train yesterday to join the steamer at the Bluff. INVERCARGILL. The following is tire statement made by Stone, the man who was with Crisp when the latter was struck by lightning on Wednesday afternoon, and killed “We were standing in the Elies Read shelter shed, about half-past four, waiting for the out-going traiq. Crisp, who was standing a few feet inside the dltorway, had bis face to the south, while I was looking in the opposite direction. numerous flushes of lightning there lull, when I suddenly felt a sensation as it my kneea wore being drawn towards my head; my vision became obscured, and when , Borises returned I was trying to rise from the 'h floor. I experienced ,a tingling sensation in the hands, which were cramped and discolored. Crisp was lying on iris bxck about a couple of yards off. I spoke to him, but he did not answer. I then went close up to him, and in a few seconds ho said, “ Stone, I’m a dead man.” Another man who was in the room got up and hid himself in an ndjscent building, and some women and children, who seemed stupifled by the shock, wens huddled together in a corner. was taken to the Hospital, but life was extiaft’ by the time he arrived there.