INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 1524, 15 September 1876, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

-:• : " -■-• WEtLINGTONj Sept.- 14. - G. £: Haughton was brought 'up this mornings : The » Court was ; held with closed doors. Htf- was committed for trial at the next criminal- sitting' of -the Supreme Court. No bail was asked for. i- : ? :: ■ Dunedin, Sept 14. At a meeting of the Fire Brigade lftßt night, the Society was instruoted to telegraph to the Wellington Brigade at once, to the following effect, "The value of the cup is twenty guineas, and' the time for competing to be 'Dec. 26th, at the Caledofiian Society's gathering on the new ground; the eight best men > of each brigade to 'firm the competing : teams. " It' was" • also I'esolved- that- there -should be a- pirand demonstration 'to which the' brigades of; - Sydney, -Victoria, Tasmania, ; and New'Zealand'shbuld be invited. : . The question of the union between the Presbyterian 'Church- of the North, 1 -and jthat of Otago and Southland^ occupied a ;special meeting of the synod: at the first' Church during the 'whole of yesterday, and up'to one- o'clock; this' morning. -The, ■question-- occaaioried. a"; ! hot' discussion. IBeyond affirming 'the' :: desirability of : the ipropbsect '■ unionj- the meeting : proved feisiiltless^"the resolutions carried being to the effect thattheSynod approves of tlie :iinion of the Churches,' but considers, m the face of the existing 'opposition, it is not expedient- to proceed m the matter:atpresent. ' : rr " : ' ' RobeHs "■ beat Weston last night by 54 points; ; ■■■■' ! • ■ ■;.• : •; An- extraordinary occurrence took place at the funeral of a Good Templar yester-' day.. Hays; 'a member of the Heart of Oak of Lodge, died m the hospital' on; Monday, and was- buried-at the ; expense of the Lodge, • with ' the' ' approval 1 of his widow. The funeral left- the hospital about' 2.30 for the : Northern |Cemetery'whei ; ea : piece of ground had' 'been pnrehiised'by the'- Lodge; the widow ! accompanying the- If earae m -a- carriage as' chief moirfnef. : When m King-Street,' near Union-street,' -a • patty- of : about 'ten: or twelve men overtook' the 1 procession. ■ On&'oi the men seized the»horses' heads', and: some of ihb 1 others said '•''*■ You have gone far enough ; we will take it our way now." In brder to'avoid 'ai : sceiie the 1 ;Go6d Templars 1 , numbering {(.bout 70 W i 80,-' did not offer any resistance; and^with ldrew irom-the procession; -The -men' who -had ; taken possession of ' tn c: h BaVse and body! then asked 'the undertaker :to drive :to thef Roman Catliolie -Gemeitiery.' Upon arrival there it' was found; no preparation .had been made for the j burial, and between five and; six o'clock last night- the. body i still remained unjburied. -It is xmdarstood the Lodge 'had been allowing th e : nian's ; '10s a 'week' while her' husband was in> the hospital.: ; One of the membera of the' Lodges who' ; had taken the principal paTt m the'f un'eral> ! arrangements, says- there had been mo: ! intimation whatever conveyed to ;the' r ! Liidge tliat any objection had been? taken :tb their proceedings 1 until>the funeral' was' ! intemipted m King-street. i : ! Mr ; Bradahaw reports :—-Sales—Colonial Bank, £1 llsf National Insurance, ' £1 5s ; Standard Insurance, 12s. Buyers' •—Colonial Bank, £1 10s 6d; National | Insurance, j£l4s6d; Standard! lnsurance,: !12b.:. '■' •■■; ■- :■:■!■'■■ '~:\ :<>■"'■■ ■■■ ■'■