INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11636, 7 November 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

♦ • PBB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND. November 6 At the inquiry into the alleged ex oessive and unjust caning of the gir Kate Sheard, by order of the Eev M Coates, headmaster of the Newton Eas School, the committee, by four to two upheld the master's action, A man named Thomas Pinkney, dis charged from the Hospital yesterday was arrested on a charge of embezzle ment at Wellington, and is to be remanded to that city. The shareholders of the Caledoniac Gold Mining Company held a meeting to-day, when they consented to offer the mine for disposal in London. PALMERSTON NORTH, November 5 A meeting of ex«lmperial soldiers interested in land claims was held last evening, when the following resolution was passed: — That a petition be pre* sented to the House, praying for a rehearing of claims by an independent tribunal, or other finad settlement, as iustice demands, WELLINGTON. November 6 Mr Vincent Pyke, M.H.R, has re. served advice by cable of the successful loating in London of the Island Block Jold Mining Compant', at Cheviot, >tago, with a capital of £50,000. Messrs Vincent Pyke and J. O, Brown, d.H.R.'s are appointed local direotora. A large number of excursionists left ar Chriaiohuroh in the Penguin last ight, and in the Wauaka this afteroon, and a large crowd is expected to save by the Manapouri to-morrow fternoon. There was no sign of the Ruapehu rom London when the telegraph office Losed. PORT CHALMERS. November 6 Astera (German brig), Captain Hild, •om Hamburg, with 500 tons of general »rgo, after a fair passage of 115 days, aptain Hild reports that on September ith off the pitch of the Cape of Good Lope, an ordinary seaman named rnest Slimbar; while loosing the upper psail, fell overboard, and was drowned, very effort, was made to save him ; rope and life buoy was thrown to him, Inch he nearly succeeded in catching, i ac vesses was hove to, and preparation i is made to hoist out a boat, but before is could be done, the poor fellow who d both oilskin and sea boots on was i it, I