INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2544, 30 October 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(BV TELEGUAI'H.— PKKSS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Tiik body of a man was found in the harbour at about 4 o'clock this morning. Two letters were found in his pocket, addressed to Thomas Blewden, contractor, Union or Cook-street, Auckland. The body was subsequently identified as that of Win. Blowdcn, of Auckland. WANGANUI, Monday. A young man limned Lett wa.3 killed by the fall of a tree while bush-falling, on Saturday. NELSON, Monday. A child two years old, daughter of Mr Sadd, surveyor, while at a picnic at Takaka, was missed, and on a search being made was found drowned on a snag a quarter of a mile down the river. The Superintendent at Wakapuaka wires to the Evening Mail that Port Darwin spoke the repairing steamer yesterday on the IS7I cable. Until then she was unaware of the break in the new cable. Later information from the ship states that she had commenced to payout towards the buoy on the Banjoowangi end which she expects to reach about four this afternoon. CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. J. O. Shepherd, formerly manager of the City Hotel, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of misappropriating a promisory note fur £03, given by R. A. Newburu. KAIAPOI, Monday. The Woollen Factory has declared a dividend of five per cent, for the year, and carries forward the sum of £4S'J. LYTTELTON, Monday. An Ausfciiau stevedore, named Charles De Michels, was found lying unconscious in hold of the Arawa, to-day, and he had evidently slipped down, falling 20 feet His skull was fractured, and he died during the afternoon, leaving a wife and three children. THAMES, Monday. The Re*'. .Father Kei«nier died lust night, aged 77 years, He arrived in the , colony in 1542, and was lii,-;hly esteemed by protestants and catholics alike.