INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1914, 24 July 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(per united press association.)

Auckland, July 22,

The Government have authoris d the Resident Railway Engineer to take on thp qhemployed on the work at Mount Eden in filling up a pontj there-

The Ada C. Owen, from Raratonga, brings the officers and crew of the American kirquentine Ketsip, totally wrecked at Palmerston Island on May 29th. They were on the Island a fortnight, till taken off by the Atlantic and brought to Rarotonga. The Ketsip wap bound from Puget Sound to Melbourne with a cargo of timber consigned to J. Marshall The vessel and cargo, so far as is known, was uninsured. The pqll of ratepayers of the Borough ?>f Newton yesterday on the loan proposals or water supply and drainage resulted in 171 for and 97 against. 1 Those in favor not being in a majority of the voters on the roll, the proposal was rejected. The City Council last night, with reference to the Contagious Diseases Act, resolved that consideration of the petition and letters be deferred, pending the result of the Repeal Bill now before the House qf Representatives. At a meeting of the unemployed a resolution 1 was carried soliciting the Government to let the Kuiti contract of the North Island Sirank Railway to the unemployed in'short sections. The City Council has referred the question to the Streets Committee of providing work for the unemployed, by instructing them to select works in the oily which could be gone on with'. W. H. Fenton & Co’s bankruptcy accounts show'»he unreserved liabilities to be £5,333. The assets ar3 stated at £6117. The firm were extensive hatters, The whole of the crew of the Petrel ar<j now discharged. The mat* VoUy remains

i in Auckland, Mendoza becoming now ftr*t mate. Woodville, June 23. T. F. Rue war'd, jeweller, on the charge* of arson has been acquitted. Wellington, Ju!y 23 The Hinemoa ha* gone to Opuoake to bring to YVel'ington Te Whiti, Titokowaru, and the other prisoners, committed for trial.. The long service and good condnot m dais for presentation to volunteers are being manufactured here. The first wa» struck this morning and is of pure Thames silver. At the Supreme Court in the case of Hollister v Accident Insurance Company of New Zealand, the Attorney-General for the Company said that the amount of the policy could not be recovered as notice of the accident which caused the death of Hollister, had not been given within seven days as required by the polioy. Mr Justice Riohmood asked whether such condition wou'd stand in a case where a person disappeared, and it was not known for some time after .vnrds that he he was dead. The Attorney-General said that that appeared to be so. His Honor replied that if the public were aware of that state of things he did not think companies Insuring against accidents would do much business. His Honor entered up judgment for defendants.

A deputation from the Wellington hotel and Properly Protection Society waited on Messrs Johnston and Co, the agents for the Union Insurance Company to-day, with reference to the services of Mr MRae in connection with the rocent eruptions at Wairoa. Mr Johnston re* ceived the deputation very courteously and promised to do all in his power to favorably represent Mr M'Rae’s case to the Board of Direc'ors.

Chbistoiiurch,July 22.

A man named John Henry Woods was killed this morning in Mr Wi'son Fisher's Bush, East Oxford, by a tree falling on him. He leaves a widow and nine child** ren.

The Hospital authorities, having remained firm in their refusal to receive the inebriate who was recaptured this morning, the difficulty has been temporarily got over br sending the man to Addington gaol. The affair has caused some excitement here, in consequence of there being no place suitable for the reception of such cams the Gaol, Hospital, and Luoatio Asylum all declining to take the man.

Dunedin July 23. A four rpomed house belonging to Mr Orr, of North Bast Talley, was burnt down. It was insured in the Union for £SOO The bodies of Cameron and the boy Hansen, buried by a fall of a tnunel at JKawarau Gorge, were reoovered. The man was not disfigured much, but the bey was fearfully crushed. The dress of Mrs McDonald, wife of a ship-carpenter, caught fire while she was burning some rubbish, and not noticing it she went outside when it blazed up. She was burned so seriously that her recovery is doubtful.

Nelson, July 22. A remarkable death occurred at Motun tka on Monday last. Mrs William Taylcr, sen, when passing near a beehive was stung on the face, just below the eye, by a bee. The sting was extracted, but deceased complained of feeling bad, and .twenty minutes after she was stung she was dead. She had suffered from asthma and her blood being poisoned the sting affected the heart.

Frank Brown, journeyman bootmaker, was found dead at Britannia Hotel, Riwaka this morning. It was a case of suicide from “ Rough on Rats.” He had recently arrived from Tekaka on a visit to his wife, who was living at the hotel named. He took the poison last night in a glass of beer, and went to bed. \ verdict of suicide whilst under the influence of drink was returned, with a rider, “ That Tafner, the proprietor of the hotel, si o ved great want of feeling in not giving proper deceased, knowing he had taken poison THE MAORI TROUBLE!

TE WHITI COMMUTED FOR TRIAL, Opunake, July 22. At the Court to-day Te Whiti aod the other nineprisonersjwere charged with forcibly entering the land belonging to Mr Hastie, Inspectou Pardy said the evidenee was pretty much the same as given before, and, although Te Whiti was not present, he was equally gui ty with the others. The only now feature in the evidence was that given by Te Whitu, a Parihaka native of rank, who| said Te Whiti gave orders to him to plough the land at O&kura, and that the prisoners had been present when Te Whiti told the Parihaka natives to enter upon the European land,

July 23. The case against Te Whiti and the other Natives is concluded On the first information for malicious injury in property, and the second information for forcible entry, all were committed for trial at the next Supreme Court Sittings at Wellington. The third charge of riot was withdrawn on the applicatiqq of the policp,