INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 276, 3 November 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.] Auckland, November 3. The body of Mr. Decimus Atkinson, the victim of the late boating accident at Pahi has been recovered and has been buried. Olaf Tarsen, a sailor belonging to the barque Wenono, lying at Makaru, Kaipara, was accidently killed on Friday by being jammed between two logs. He was a native of Norway, 21 years old. Mrs Maurice Kelly, of Wade, who arrived in the colony in 1841 is dead. Her hupband is in his 97th year. On Friday a trial trip took place of the first Auckland built bogie railway carriages, eight in number, all of which were manufactured from local material, there were two brake vans with eight carriages, and a special train ran through to Waikato. It is not intended to bring them into use till the cattle show day, when they will be available to the public for the first time and run to and from Waikato.

At the first annual meeting on Friday of the Apple Farm Company no dividend was declared. The balance of the profit and loss account, £1,256, was carried forward. The report was encouraging. The 47,000 trees .which were planted last year were stated to be strong and healthy. Mr. Billington, Mr. Peacock, M.H R., and Mr. Cannell were reelected directors.

The Herald in referring to the arrangement of the direct steam company’s to despatch all vessels to some Southern ports and forward to Auckland goods per Union steamers advocates the formation of a strong local company, that might embrace organisations and secure to Auckland her proper place in the coastal, intercolonial, and home trade. Christchurch, November 3. Mr. Farr, Secretary of the Acclimatisation Society, left by the Doric on Saturday, to bring out salmon and salmon ova, and taking some boxes of frozen whitebait for the Prince of Wales and the Agent-General.