INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1734, 8 May 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The imports and exports at the port of Oamaru were larger last month than for any previous month frince the harbor works hare been in progress. The Southland Times says that from all ports of New Zealand the Waibora fcoofc 234 passengers for Melbourne, made op of 73 saloon and 161 steerage. At Wellington James Beck, whose timber yard was burned by ilie convict Hind, is instituting proceedings against him. Hind, ie in receipt of mone/ from Home, and Beck will endeavour to recover damages for loss from the fire.

At the Dunedin Police Court on Friday 1 Frank Lombards, a foreigner, was committed for trial on a charge of stabbing Norman jjeslie, James Hooper was brought tip charged with nesou t with intent to murder James Black. The case waB 1 remanded. It appears the parties had quarrelled, and Hooper assaulted Black with a tomahawk on the head.

A nVeefcing of the Exhibition Comnjirtioners w»s h»ld jr Wellington on Friday, His' Excellency the fifoveroor presidi'g. The Executive Commissioner's report give the total number of exhibitors at 3,?d. The urace applied for in the Exhibition js 28,204 feet, value about £2o.f>OO. Mr Charles' Oallie, Secretary, sails on Mond.y in the Manapburi with the bulk of the exhibits; and Sir J»mes Hector, the Exeotftiye Commissioner, follows shortly for the Melbourne Exhibition,

Roderick McKay, who was receotly thra<vo from his horse atWaikari, diod on Friday from the effects of the accident.

The Cavershsm (Otago) borough defers paying contribution to the Charitable Aid Board, and will correspond with other boroughs in the colony, with a view to protecting against the tax, on the grouD'l that it is a case of the poor supporting the poor.

What appears to have been a practical joke lias had serious results to a lad namid Dyke at Waimatuku, Southland. He was induosd to take a draw from a pipe which had been filled with gunpowder by a young man named Crow. An explosion oceuired, inflicting a very naety wound, the who'e region of the eye being terribly scorched, but the eye is believed to be uninjured. A young woman named Densham wa9 walking on the mud flats in River ton harbor at low water when she sank in mud up to her waist. Her struggles made her sink deeper, and she cried for help, which was 'fortunately forthcoming, but her rescue was only effected with greut difficulty, and not till she had got embedded to the armpitH. The Mayor of Invercargill has despatched the following telegram to the Minister of Public Works :—" Unemployed now getting serious. Can you give any idea when woik on tho Seacard Bush Railway oxtension will b» ready. I know many really deserviug cases of men with large families who are quite unable to find work of ony kind." The Mayor has been asked if he can name any work on which they can be advantageously employed.