INTERPROVINCIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 12

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Eight young children were arrested at Christchurch on Saturday for petty larceny. Tho Auckland Telephone Exchange has now 103 subscribers, and a third annunciator for the accommodation of 50 more is being erected. Now that Winiata's fate has been definitely settled, it may be stated that he has confessed to several persons having perpetrated tne murder of Packer. John Young and George Hall, sentenced at the last Supreme Court sittings at Christchurch for indecent assaults, were flogged m the Lyttolton Gaol on Saturday morning. A large number of applications for silkworm eggs have been received recently by Mr Jederli, and mulberry trees have been extensively planted on Banks Peninsula. Denis Heffernan, a Timaru farmer, was arrested on Monday for counselling and abetting the burning of three stacks of gram, belonging to himself, last week. They were insured in the Koyal Office. Mr Dufaur, Winiata's solicitor, goes_ to the King country with letters from Winiata to his relatives. Winiata says m them that he regards himself as a dead man, and counsels them not to avenge his death. Denis Heffernan was charged at the Timaru Police Court on Tuesday with being accessory to the burning down of two stacks of barley, with intent to defraud the New Zealand Insurance Company. He was remanded till a 11day. The Transatlantic Insurance Office has retired from business in the Colony. Ihe Oompany has for some time done very little business m the Colony, except in Canterbury, where it has had a fair share. The bridge on the Waipa, at Whatiwhatihoe, is finished. When pile-driving, Tawhiao m curred a debt of £21, which lie expected (government to pay. Mr JFineh, the publican, will probably sue his Maje&ty for the amount. At &o annual t 0 Auckland

District Committee of the Odd-Fellows, Manchester Unity, 21 deputies were present. lAc District Grand Master said that the Order had made great progrtsu liet'e in the past year. The traction of the railway bridge at Hamilton, on the Waikato, is causing anxiety. One cylinder has been sunk SO feet 10 inches below the bed of the river, and no indication of hard bottom has yet been met with. According to the present rate of progress the bridge will not be finished for years. At a meeting of the Executive ; Council on the 27th, it was decided not to interfere in the carrying out of the BGhtehoe of death passed on Winiata for the murder of Packer. The date of execution will be fixed by the sheriff.

At a meeting of the Mount Eden (Auckland) Road Board the proxy of John Macelavern was presented and accßpted> iti which no witnessed his own signature in his capacity as a Jilsfcido of the Peace. At the inquest on Captain Johnston, who committed suicide at Raglan, a verdict of, "Temporary insanity" was returned. Deceased was a nephewof Lord Campbell, and cousin to Sir George Campbell, M.P. for Kirkcaldy.

A married man, named Joseph Jardine, employed on Ford and Co.'s estate, Waitoln Flat, South Cantt rbury , committed suicid eon Monday by hanging himself in a stable. When found shortly afterwards by his wife, he was quite dead. No cause is assigned for the act, but it is stated he has been drinking heavily of late.

The cutter Bessie arrived at Whangaroa on the 27th, 16 'days out from Auckland. Captain M'Donald reports being blown 300 miles out to sea, and the vessel was hove-to for a week. The crew endured great privations, being five days without water. _ . Garrard, a gunsmith, residing in Victoria street, was shooting rabbits in the Waimakann Riverbed on Saturday when a grain of shotfrom the gun of one of the party glanoed off a rock and struck him (Garrard) in the eye, and completely destroyed the sight of it. t At the meeting of the Devonport Highway Board(Auckland),EwenAlison,whowasacandidate against Mr W. J. Hurst at the general election, and who is a trustee, punched the head of a ratepayer named John Duder, owing to a squabble arising out of an alleged charge of making private roads at public expense. Alison had an eye damaged by Duder. > At a meeting of the Auckland Law Society the following resolution was passed with regard to a practice which it was alleged had crept in:— "That the allowance of commission by professional men to agents and others who bring them business is reprehensible, and this meeting considers it altogether contrary to professional etiquette." The case of bigamy against Samuel Joy at Auckland is a singular one. It appears that f our yearsagohemarrudahalfcastewomanatTapari, who, within half an hour after the completion of the ceremony, eloped to the King country with a Maori lover. In January last, Joy con- ( tracted a matrimonial alliance with a woman named Pvawley, who arrived by the Lady Jocelyn, and it is understood she laid the information. A batch of youngsters who ostensibly make their living by selling newspapers were 1 brought before the Christchurch City Police Court on Monday last for petty larcenies of various kinds. It appeared that some of them had decent homes, but they preferred leading a vagrant life. The R.M. gave them a pretty severe lesson by sending them all to gaol for a short period, and ordering them to be whipped— the worst to get 18 strokes, and the rest 12 A cable has reached here from a firm in Sydney stating that Hargis, the levanter, has at last escaped the hands of justice. _ Every endeavour to hold him and forward him from Adelaide to Auckland proved fruitless. The Court ordered his discharge from custody under a writ of habeas corpus. In a recent cable message his assets were given as £1400 odd, and liabilities £GBS. His liabilities really amounted to £1400, and his assets were £605, found on him when arrested.

The' body of a man named Ayleward was found in the Wanganui river on Thursday (27th). Deceased jumped off a bridge into the water last night at 11 ' o'clock, it is supposed with the intention of committing suicide. He was 25 years of age, and the cause of the act is supposed to be through liabilities in an arbitration case. At the inquest a verdict of "Temporary insanity" was returned. A woolshed on Che&ter Hope Station, Hawke's Bay, has been destroyed by fire. The building was observed to be all right on Saturday night, but on Sunday morning it was discovered a heap of ruins. It was insured in the Union Office for £300; but the building contained uninsured property, consisting of grass-seed, farm implements, and sheepskins, valued at between £300 and £400. The origin of the fire is unknown. It is feared to be the work of an incendiary. The Bay View Hotel, on the Wakapuaka road (Nelson), was destroyed by fire at 6.30 on Monday night. The occupier, Mr Fooden, noticed a strong smell of burniug, and in his search opened a door under the staircase, when the flames broke out. The furniture was almost completely destroyed. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The license was allowed to lapse at the last meeting of the Licensing Court. The building was insured in the Norwich Union Office for £300, and the furniture in the same office for £200. The body of a man, name unknown, has been found in the Auckland harbour. Thebody is that of an elderly man, dressed in a suit of black clothes, white shirt, elastic-side boots, and worsted stockings, a silver watch and black cord guardbeing attached to the vest. The features are completely gone ; the hair is dark, and there are traces of side whiskers. In the pockets was found a letter, but this gives no clue to the man's identity. It is written by a sister on a visit to Cambridge, Waikato, and is dated April 30th, 1882. It commences Dear John," and concludes "Your loving sister, Ada," but no particulars arc contained therein by which the surname of either sister or recipient can be discovered. Lieutenant Drake, of the Nelson, while talcng a walk in the bush towards Flagstaff Hill, Russell, came upon the body of a man with his throat cut, the knife being still grasped in his hand. Ho immediately gave information, and the seamen who were ashore proceeded to the spot and brought the body to Flood's Hotel. It was identified as that of Daniel Mann, brother of David Mann, the well-known jockey. He arrived back from a trip to Auckland by the Glenelg on the 25th ult., and it was remarked that he seemed strange in his manner, like one who had been drinking heavily. Since his arrival nothing had been seen of him till his body was found. An inquest was held, and a verdict returned " That he committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."

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