INTERPROVINCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 998, 26 February 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Bt Eleotbio Telegraph, (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DTJKEDIN. Feb. 24. Mr J. Macandrew, M.H.E.. metwitha rather serious accident yesterday. "While driving home, his horse bolted, and Mr Macandrew was thrown out, and had two of his ribs fractured and his spine injured, besides sustaining a severe shaking. JNo serious results are anticipated. As showing ti.at money is not so very scarce after all, in two nights the Knox. Church bazaar takings amounted to £645. The Otago University Council passed a resolution yesterday that it was desirable application should be again made for an Imperial charter, under which the university may grant degrees. A committee was appointed to dralt a memorial to the Crown. Government intimated that the ] £SOO voted would be paid. The committee's report, recommending the re-appointment of a lecturer on mechanics and of a lecturer on mine surveying and geology, was adopted. The news about the Tongan trouble is not reassuring. One of the Wesleyan i native ministers was condemned to death and shot. The Wesleyans charge the Eev. Mr Baker with acting practically as judge, jury and prosecator. H.M.S. Diamond has gone to the island. Admiral Tryon favors the idea of stationing two men-of—war off New Zealand, if the Colony contributes to the proposed scheme of general naval defence. The Wellington E.M. has dismissed the charge of selliug after hours preferred against a publican, owing to a flaw in the Licensing Act in providing for only ten o'clock and twelve o'clock licenses,whereas the publican had eleven o'clock. The tender of a Christchurch firm has been accepted for the Taieri Gorge bridge contract on the Otago Central line. There is afc present a serious outbreak of typhoid at Auckland. There are now 20 patients in the hospital. • The.body of-Mr E. G. ,Scola,n, rabbit inspector at Timaru, has been found dead, on the road. He is supposed to have been thrown from his horse. He leaves a wife and five children.jn Dunedin. \ The Eev. Mr Hall thinks the body found in the Mataura Eiver is that of his son, who disappeared in October. The body is said to bear a gun-shot wound. The manager of the Eamo coal-mine has been need on four different charges of breaches of the Coal Miae'» Act-