INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1582, 17 May 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The position of the Waitaki has not altered bince she went ashore. E. S. Parker, Superintendent Bank iof Aus ralasia, who lost his life iu the Milbo'urne railway accident, was formerly Manager of the Wellington branch of the Bank. Messrs Kennedy, McDonald and Co., sold on Friday in Wellington, for the Wellington »nd Manawatu Kailway Company, 42 agricultural sections adjoining the township of Mahukau, situated aloDg the Company's IV uf railyay, containing 3750 aces, for £9,873.1654d; representing an average of £2 12s 8d per acre. They also sold the township of Manukau for the Hame CottipHDy at an average of £27 8s 2d per acre for town, and £6 Is 2d per rfcrefor suburban allotments. The totai sales amounted to £10,917 18s lid. On Thursday, the building on the Canal reserve, Chriatchurch, erected for a Smallpri Hospital; was burned down. It was occupied by the caretaker Slavery a')d family, who escaped with difficulty. Nothing, was .saved. The building was insured for £2OO in the New Zealand office. Dr Nei'l has resigned the Superintendency of the Sencliff Luoutic Asylum. An Auckland grocer named Bodger was found in an unconscious state near Mb shop, last Tuesday night, and since then he has been in a high fever, continually muttering : "Oh .those larrikins ; I have been robbed." it is supposed he was either drugged or garotted, and. robbed of over £2O, The final returns of the Northern Maori election give Whakatene a majority of three. Pollock, who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for sheep-stealing in Wairarapn, along with Freebody, hus been released. The latter was released last year.! Bootmakers in the Wellington factories are all out on strike. At a meeting of the Bootmakers Operative Society, the tariff proposals in regard to-the boot trade were endorsed. A deputation from the New Zealand Medical Association to the Premier on Saturday urged that iq future public vaccination should only be performed by registered medical practitioners. Mr H. Hooper, who is running a small combinationJtrpupe through the. Wellington (Ijstrict, ha'a been made the subject of a dastardly trick. When playing at Johnsonville » tin of prepared cork, which he was using .to disguise himself as a darkie, was found to contain vitriol, and his face was severely burnt. Again, ac the Hiitt, another tin was used and found to have been tampered with. Messrs Laery and Campbell, auctioneers, who were burnt out in the late fire at Wellington, have served a writ on the insurance company withjwhich they were insured, claiming the amoun t for which the premises were insured (£4000). It js understood that the defendant company resist the claim on the ground that the building was over-insured, and that the company is willing either to allow the question to go to arbitration or to rebuild the building. No settlement has been arrived at. At the R..M. Court Chmtohurch on Saturday, John Grey Taiaroa, accused of forging the name of flori Kerei Taiaroa to a promissory note for £IOO, was discharged, as it appeared that he had rea»on to think he had authority to sign his father's name. John Anderson a shepherd at the Minaret station, Lake Wanaka (Otago), was killed by falling over a precipice 150 feet high. Alexander Renton, of Otakia (Otago), when going to.school, slipped as he was walking alongside a dr»y, the wheel of which passed over him and killed him. Very heavy floods have occurred at the Thames. Bridges were washed away, shops inundated, and damage to the amount of several thousand pounds done. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at Wellington on Friday. He was waited upon by the Mayor and others, and an address wns presented by the Irish National League the same evening.