INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 125, 7 May 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.] UNLAWFUL PROSPECTING. Wellington, May 7. The Native Minister has decided not to prosecute the gold prospectors, Barry and McDonnell, who were arrested by Natives and sent to Alexandra. It seems they were not aware they were breaking the law, though they really rendered themselves liable to be fined £5O each, for prospecting on Native land, the title to which had not been determined. SUNDAY TRADING. The Licensee of the Army and Navy Hotel, was to-day fined £lO for Sunday trading. An official enquiry into the foundering of the steamer Kangaroo will be held on Friday. EXTENSIVE FIRE. Auckland, May 7. The Masonic Hotel at Coromandel was totally destroyed by fire at 1 o’clock this morning. Nothing was saved. The Oddfellows lost regalia worth £5O. Insurance: Building, £900; furniture, £2OO, in the Norwich Union. ANOTHER FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT Masterton, May 7. James Woods, driver of the truck on the Masterton railway works, slipped while detaching a horse this morning. The loaded truck passed over his arm and thigh. He died from the shock within half-an-hour. He arrived from the South Island in February last, and was a young man, and single. FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER. Christchurch, May 7. Yesterday Messrs. Roberts, Paxton and Co. received intelligence, by wire from Newcastle, of the foundering of the India, which left Newcastle, on April 26, with a cargo of coal. She was bound to Lyttelton, the cargo being consigned to Mr. W. H. .Hargreaves. The vessel was Io have been loaded, on her return trip, by Roberts, Paxton and Co., in conjunction with others. No particulas were received as to loss of life or the vessel’s position when she went down. The India is identical with the Ferret, whoso attempted seizure by her officers and crew, and the subsequent lawsuit occupied a prominent position in the columns Australian journals some months ago.

FATAL ACCIDENT. Wanganui, May 7. A man named G, Hoyle, was killed at the Goat Valley, about four miles from town yesterday, by the falling of a tree. He was working with another man who was falling a tree, and when the tree was about to fall his companion called out to him to get out of the way, and not hearing anything of the other man, he went to look, and found the tree had struck another tree and had fallen on Moyle’s head. An inquest was held, at which a verdict of accidental death was returned. EMBEZZLEMENT.—ARREST. Oamahu, May 7. W. O. McDermott, a clerk in the Government Insurance Office, who absconded from Wellington some time ago, was arrested here and brought up at the R.M. Court this morning, charged with the embezzlement of Government monies, and remanded to Wellington. FURTHER FIRES. Dunedin, May 7. Three wooden shops in George-street were burned down early this morning. They were oocupied by Thomas Scott, fruiterer, Alex ander and Shepherd, butchers, and David Miller, grocer. Scott’s stock was insured in the Equitable for £lOO ; Shepherd’s for £250 in the London and Lancashire; and Miller’s for £6OO in the Hamburg-Magdeburg. The latter is a partial loss. The building was insured by the owner, James Galbraith, of London, in the London and Lancashire for £6OO. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a spark from an open fire in Scott’s shop. DEATH OF AN OLD IDENTITY. Major Nixon, an old resident died this morning. He arrived in Wellington in the ship London in 1840, and was holding an order for the sale of land from the New Zealand Company here in February 1811. He took an active part in the war, being made a captain at the outbreak. He leaves three sons and four daughters.