INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1725, 17 April 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINC IAL NEWS.

The Avondale Hotel, Auckland, was bi '-nt down on Sunday night.

Government have forwarded the prop ed rules of procedure to members. The South British insurance Company baa declared a dividend for the last halfy. rat the rate of 8 par cent, per [annum. two-year-old child of Mr Foster, of 0 uaiti, Auckland, has been polsioned by lan lannm given in mistake by an elder b. dher. The Hon. 0. Fisher has returned to A ckland from a visit to the Thames and T Uoha. He leaves for Wellington on Vr .inesday. 'leme fishermen’s huts at Petone Beach, W llington, have been robbed, the men’s w lobes and a small amount of silver being taken. Instructions have been issued to the various Health Officers in the colony to exercise strict supervision on all vessels an iving from Sydney. liana Hansen, a Norwegian, , belonging to be steamer Kakauui, waa drowned in the Mataura on Friday. He was single, and had no relatives.

loir George Grey, who was 76 years old on Saturday, received numerous congratulations, and flags and bunting were flying at the Free Library and Art Gallery, Auckland.

A man named Harwood Mathews, a farmer at Kaipara, died on Friday from the offsets of injuries received through his arm being caught in a thrashing machine.

Captain Bendall and six workmen are now on the ship Pleiona for tho purpose of hying out one of her anchors so as to prevent, if posaib'e, her driving further up the beach.

Several sample parcels of ores from the Maritoto mine, T« Aroha, recently purchased by Mr W. JR. Wilson, are about to be shipped to Australia to be tested by experts there by various processes. An old man named Peter O'Dowd, residing at Mount Koskill road, Auckland, * attempted suicide on Thursday by swallow* 1 ing laudanum, after which he chewed the heads of Several matches. He is recovering.

The sum of £33 2s 3d of the fund raised for sport to the officers and men of Admiral Fairfax’s Squadron during their stay at Auckland has been devoted to the purchase of a library for the inmates of the Whan Lunatic Asylum. At the Police Court, Dunedin, on Friday Ohas. Henry Williams, a probationer, pleaded guilty to the larceny of a watch. Representations were made in accused's favor, and the Bench adopted the novel course of extending his term of probation for sis months.

A. young lad, named David Qrainly, about eleven years of age, accidentally fell over a quarry face at Qreymeuth on Sun* day morning, a height of 70ft or 80ft. His head was split open, and, although not dead when picked up, there is little hope of his recovery. He was looking after some cows at the time.

The reported eruption at the Bay of Islands proves a complete mistake. It turns out that a bush fire ignited an inflammable stratum impregnated with hydro-carbon gas, and a chalky , ash has been gently ojocted by the force of gas or steam. The deposits, which are extensive, are said to be of great commercial value. An elderly man named Richard Hogarth met with a painful sccideut in Wellington on Saturday evening. As the trnm was turning a corner the man fell off the oar in which he was riding. One of his arms was seriously injured by the wheels, the flesh being torn off from the elbow to the wrist. He was taken to the hospita l , and is in a rather precarious condition.

There wis quite a unique gathering of the anniversary services of the Wesleyan Church at Blenheim on Thursday night. Fourteen elderly ladies and gentlemen eat down to a table whose united ages totalled over a thousand years. Seven arrived in the colony in the year 1842. The ages of one married couple totalled 162 years, another 149 years, another 144 years ; the oldest member of the gathering 82 year^ Renata Kawepo, the last of the great chiefs of Qawkes Bay, died at Omahau on Saturday morning. Deceased was staunch friend to Europeans during the Maori war, and furnished and led a contingent against Te Kooti. He wua universally esteemed, and his death will convert the great political gathering to be held next week into a tangi. He will ba accorded a military funeral. At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Saturday, William J. McKavanagh, for embezzlement was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labor, Philip Wilberforce, charged with obtaining goods under false pretence, was acquitted. The remaining cores are all private prosecutions and were adjourned till May 2nd. Chief Justice Pendergast left for Wanganui, and Mr Justics Richmond for the Nelson and Blenheim sittings ou Monday. A Maori named Tawa, in a state of drunken frenzy, was on horseback galloping through Rotorua township on Thursday night. The horse ran iato a crowd of natives coming from a meeting held by Mr Sydney Taiwhanga, and one of the men, a Maketn chief, named Metia, was thrown down and violently bruised. He died on Friday morning. Tawa was thrown from his horse, and now lies in a precarious

condition. He is in custody of the folic?. At theßesident Magistrate's • Court, Mongocui, on Saturday, Thomas Bergham was convicted on three charges of selling brandy at the Awanui races on March IStb, he not being licensed to do so. He was. fined on each charge, The total penalties imposed were £JI with costs £l7. Three natives pleaded guilty to sly grog selling on the same occasion and were fined £5 and coats each. They stated in extenuation that they were acting under th& instructions of Bergham.

The Supremo Court, Wellingtonj yretg occupied all Friday in beating a charge of murder preferred against Fong Chong and his wife, an English woman. The, body of their infant child, bearing marks) of violence, was found wrapped in a bag on tha beaah at Evans’ Bay in Januarylast. Tha jury acquitted the accused on ’jj the more serious charge and entered up a verdict of concealment of birth. The Chief Justice sentenced the prisoners to, two years' imprisonment each, baft reserved the question of the ctrput delicti r for the Appeal Court, and ordered that ► execution should be arrested until the ' decision of tbst Court had been given. A peculiar point arose after the verdict wm given, it being ascertained that none of the evidence had been interpreted to the male prisoner. This, his honor said, if anything, was only a mistrial, but ha was nob: prepared to say at presoQt what course should be adopted.