INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1699, 16 February 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Lucy Benzie, 22 years of age, the daughter of a Onehunga settler, was drowned in Lake Takapuna, Auckland, on Saturday morning. She was suffering from melancholia. Sha got out of the house where she was staying unobserved, in the early morning, and is suposed to have thrown herself into the lake. The body was found in sixteen feet of water.

The Crown Prosecutor at Wellington has sworn an information against Reuben Hind for arson.

Colonel Roberts, of Auckland, has received leave of absence from the end of the present month, and at the end of his leave he retires from the Service,

At a meeting of the Olago Chamber of Commerce on Monday the Committee were requested to draw up a statement and furnish it to Mr Allen, in order that Government may proceed with the enquiry into the proceedings of the .Jock trust. The suggested amendments in the Bankruptcy Act brought up by the Committee were, with one exception, adopted. The suggestions numbered thirty-two, and in their preparation the Committee had the assistance of the Official Assignee aod also Judge Williams.

A ten-months-old child of Alexander Puintor, South Dunedin, was drowned in a drain.

The squadron arrived at Auckland on Tuesday morning, and Sir William Jervois and Admiral Fairfax were received by the volunteers.

, James Thomas Lee, builder, was arrested et Auckland on Tuesday on a charge of obtaining £2OO by falsa representations. Other charges are pet ding against him. Martin O’Brien, who was recently injured by a brick accident at Oenahor’s contract at Maugarnahae, Wellington, died on Tuesday.

The Government have decided to purchase three deep furrow ploughs for the purpose of assisting to destroy the Hessian fly in the Rangitikei district. Mr Sydney laivrhanga, M.H.R,, was again before the Resident Magistrates Court at Wellington on Tuesday last to answer a summons for £3B preferred against him by the parson with whom he had been lodging. The Magistrate ordered defendant to had the money or go to gaol for 14 days. Taiwhanga intimated that he would accept the latter alternative.

Robert Wallace, a well known contractor, formerly landlord of the Criterion Hotel, Christchurch, died on Tuesday morning at Sheffield.from ’niuries received three weeks ago in wrestling. A question affecting the legal rights of tenants and landlord’s agent whs raised in Ibe Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin on Tuesday. An agent sued for arrears of tent. MrDenniston, for the tenant, raised the question as to the jurisdiction of the court, and on the benoli giving judgment for plaintiff on the fact applied for an adjournment for a week, so that he might apply to the Supremo Court for a prohibition. Mr Uennietcun contended lint where the case was, bond fide, a dispute as to the title, the Resident Magistrate was bound to dismiss the case.

A married woman named Annie Watson, who resided with her husband on the East Belt, Christchurch, died at her residence on Feb. Bat 6 a.m. She was buried on the fcltowing day in the Addington cemetery. In consequence of representations made to the po’ice that deceased and her husband did not live happily together, and that quarrels between them were known to have taken place shortly before the woman’s death, the Coroner’s warrant for the exhumation of the body was signed by Mr Reethara, aad it was exhumod on Monday, and after the jury had viewed it it was reinterred. At the inquest’ the coroner stated that there was a deal of evidence as to cruelty on the part ; of her husband, but that the testimony of the doctor who attended Iter did ? not corroborate it. No other evidence was taken and the enquiry was adjourned for a week le allow of full' evidence being obtained.

An accident that terminated fatally occurred to Mr J, A. Reardon, of Hastings, Hawke* Bay, early on Sunday morning. The deceased went home about 11 o’clock on Saturday night and laid down on the bed without undressing. About 2 a,to. be complained of the heat and w nt into the passage, opened the window, and by some means overbalanced himself and fell three feet on to a verandah. He rolled down the sloping rocf and on to the ground, a distance of fourteen feet. The deceased was seventeen stone we’ght. His wife hearing the noise ran oat and found ho had smashed his leg below the kne». Medical assistance was quickly obtained. It was found necessary to amputate the injured limb, The patient was put under chloroform and the opera, tion performed, bat he never recovered consciousness and died at 11 a.ra, Mr Reardon had been master of the Catholic school in Napier and also at Hokitika. A deposit of £2O a side has been made with Mr Parsons, of Wellington, by Slavin and Laing to fight for the championship of New Zealand, the belt, £3OO a aide, and ail gate money. Articles are to be signed on Monday night, the fight to take place on the 10th April. Slavin has beaten Dooley, Costello, and Farnan (formerly champion of Australia), but he does not appear to have met any of the 1 lading light* of Australia in a genuine knock-out, and Farnan, who has beaten Jackson, was stale when be met Slavin. The Melbourne Sportsman proclaim* Slavin Champion of Australia, but till he meets Jackson and the “ Irish Lad ” he has no real claim to the title.