INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1551, 10 February 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Gas Company, a dividend at the iate of 17 per cent, was declared on paid up shares. An old woman, wife of Foley, a bookbinder, fell into a fire at Auckland, and was nearly roasted alive. She died in the Hospital. Crisp and Muir, committed for trial for an alleged criminal libel at Gisborne, were admitted to bail on their own recognizinces. The charge to bind them over to keep the pe ce w* '''■ nv-^ed. Lord Sandhurst, vvhv, luimerly held the position of Under-Secretary for War in the Gladstone Administration, is at present in Wellington, and ha,(jl,'ap interview with the Defence Minister on Monday, when he had a long conversation on the defences of the colonies, and also the feeling of the colonies towards the Mother Country. The gallows and apparatus for hanging Caffrey and Penn will be sent from Wellington to Auckland. A. hangman has already been secured. Mr J. K. Richardson,' Secretary to the Government Life Assurance Association, has been elected an associate of the institute of Actuaries of Qrbat Britain and Ireland. , , The convict Crabtree is to bo prosecuted for two burglaries alleged ip have been committed by him while but of gaol. The creditors io the estate of Alexander Thompson, .the levanting Wellington bankrupt who fell into.,the hands of the Sydney police last week, have decided not to proceed with the prosecution, and no steps will, therefore, be taken for r bringing the debtor back to New Zealand. . Mr Brodie Gherman of Midland Railway (Qompany* (eft by , the' Hauroto.oo Monday.afternoon for Sydney f en route for England. The circulars, sent out by Messrs Wilson, M.H.E, and Lee, to . the school children of-Nevr Zealand, requesting sob-, soriptions to a : penny dinner fund in London, to give the half-starved children attending the schools a gpod dinner, hqsr resulted in the handsome sum of £SO being collected to which it is pro-, posed to forward next mail through the Mayor of Wellington. A man named Garvey was drowned in the Tidal Creek, a tributary of Little Wangaihui. river, on Friday. ! Louisa Eyles was tried at the District Court, Nelson, on Monday for abandoning her child. The jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty,” and in discharging accused the Judge said he regretted the man wlio brought her to that position! had not stood beside her in the dock, and shared with her the shame and anxiety of her trial. The girl came'.from Blenheim. Willie Walker, a .youth, pf seventeen, whilst trying ip cross the Aorere River at Collingwood, Nelson, on Sunday night, was drowned. At the 11. M, Court, Dunedin, on Monday three persons recovered "damages to the extent of about £5 from the Corporation for injury to their property by the escape of fumes from the gasworks turning paint outside black and injuring picture frames, &c., inside. William Gilchrist Boss was committed for trial at Dunedin on Monday for a criminal assault on a girl aged fourteen, atTaieri. Accused was till recently an inmate of the Industrial School. Mr Brace, M.U.K., who is at ipresputv in Dunedin, has consented to deliver an address on freetrade from a working man's point of view. As an instance of the profit oh dairy farming, it is stated that a farmer who leased 150 acres of the Edendale estate, with a purchasing clause, Ibe Company giving him the use of forty cows on paying 10 per cent, of the 'price until able to buy them, has in the first six months paid the full yeai’s rent and purchased twenty of the cows. The body of Andrew Soiithberg, »n old and respected miner at Skippers, was found in Lake Wakatipu, He had been despondent of late, and suicide is suspected. The Invercargill police have received information that a body has been found in the Waiau river near Obao station. The remains are not identified, but are probably those of W. J. Lowther, nephew of T. L. Barnhill, of Castle Rock, who disappeared from Manapouri station on December 29th, and whose clothes were 1 found on the bank of the river, and who, is supposed co have been drowned in an attempt to bring a canoe from the other side. In the telephone case Regina v. Headley,an, action to recover £9, the value of an instrument destroyed in the late fire at Napier, the R.M., gave judgment in favor of the plaintiff.' ; , j The Health Officer at Auckland wired on Tuesday to Wellington that a case of typhoid fever had brjken out, on board H.M.S. Nelson,, and asking for instructions. The Colonial ( Secretary replied that the patient should be removed to the Hospital, and that it was not necessary to quarantine the ship. it is stated that a Wellington resident has written to the Minister 1 of Justice offering to act as hangman for Caffrey, Penn and flail./' ■ 1 . At the’ annual meeting of the Bluff Harbor Board on Tuesday, the balancesheet showed that though the port is now available for ships at rates lower than any olher poit in the colony except Auckland, its financial position is improving. The Board again resolved to call for lenders to,create a deep-water berth at the wharf for large steamers. His Excellency and suite, with Lady and Miss Jervois and Judge Williams, left Dunedin in the Hinemoa yesterday tor the West Coast Sounds. A telegram from Greymouth says a coach accident occurred at Macbre Creek on Monday. Just after starting, the driver found the reins. wrong, aod got down to fix them. The horses then bolted. Not having anything to stop them he seized the brake and held on for over a quarter of a mile, but was thrown off the; coach. Four adults and two children were in the coach. Approaching Eight Mile.. Hill, Mrs McKicbnle was assisted out of the coach, but fell on the road, cutting her forehead severely, Mr McKichnie injured his knee getting out his two children. These were passed out all right. A Chinaman injured his wrist and hand in alightiag on the road. Joe Boynton, being young and active, escaped without injury. The horses were finally stopped by punping into Blair’s coach at the bottom of .the bill. How they got down without rolling down the side of the precipice is a mystery.

The up rivsr natives are interfering with snagging operations at Wanganui. A telegram from Westport states that communication with the outside world was suspended from Friday night till three in the afternoon of Monday. On Friday night a fierce K.W. wind and rain was experienced there. The damage in the town was slight, but it was serious in the country. The road between Westport and Eeeftou was completely blocked by slips, over fifty of these having taken place. Traffic was of course stopped. Travellers were compelled to leave the coacb, and wade up to their waists through mud and water andjover obstructions, Many telegraph poies were brought down, and wires were buried in debris. The damage on the Buller road will cost £SOO to repair. Steamers off the coast caught the full force of the gale, on Friday night. The steamer St. Kilda, on her way from Greymputh to Wellington, experienced the full- force of the gale on Saturday. A heavy sea broke on board and carried away the deckhouse and everything moveable on the deck. A valuable - draught horse was killed. All the vessels arriving at Wellington report severe weather. The steam er Wainui, from Lyttelton to Wellington, had her wheel smashed and steering gear temporarily disarranged.