INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 170, 30 June 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.] THE LUMPER’S UNION. WALKING MATCH. FATAL RAILWAY CASUALTY. SUICIDE. THE LAMBING DOWN CASE. Port Chalmers, June 30. The Lumper’s Union passed a resolution thanking Mr. Macandrew for past services on behalf of the working men, and inviting him to again represent the constituency. CnnisTcnußcn, June 30. A fifty mile walking match was held in the Oddfellow’s Hall, between Mitchelson and Speight, local peds, for £25 a-side, The match was won by the former in 10 hours 27 minutes, and by 5-sixths of a mile. A man named William Pitcairn attempted suicide, at the Grosvenor Hotel, by taking strychnine, but he did not take enough to prove fatal. He is now out of danger. A letter was found announcing his intention to kill himself through inability to find employment. Mr. Donald, one of the earliest settlers and for many years R.M. and Coroner for Lyttelton, died last night, aged sixty-eight. Dunedin, June 30. The body of a woman named Ellen Adams was found, in a fearfully mangled condition, on the railway line near the central station this morning. The body was only identified j

by the clothes. The woman was a well-known vagrant. It is supposed that she was lying on the line, and got run over by a goods train during the night. One engine was found with blood on it, but the driver says he never felt anything. The husband of tlie deceased is in gaol on a charge of housebreaking. The streets of the Borough of Roslyn were lighted with gas, for the first time, on Friday night. The criminal calendar contains fifteen cases. Wanganui, June 30. At the inquest on the body of Jas. Harper, found drowned on Thursday last, a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. A meeting of the Wanganui County Ratepayers passed the following resolution—- “ That the Committe Act should be suspended in the County.” A resolution was also passed against the Harbor Boards Rateing Bill. Auckland, June 30. John Adams, the licensee of the Swan Hotel, has pleaded guilty to the charge of supplying a man named Franks while in a state of intoxication. This was the celebrated lambing down case, and Adams pleaded that he had already lost £5OO and his business by what he had done. He offered now to give Franks £2O in full settlement of his claims or otherwise he would have to become insolvent. The license had been transferred. The magistrate said he would under other circumstances have inflicted a heavy fine, but as Adams had already been severely punished, he would now be fined 20s. and costs. Bluff, June 30.

The barque Sunbeam takes to Sydney a cargo of 6,000 bags of oats, and the Manapouri takes 6,000 bags to Melbourne.