INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2799, 12 September 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Association.] Auoklakd. slept. 11. On the Zealandia Hrriv.ng to-day a detective arrei>lt-d Cnriu'lim Biordati by mistake fur Patrick Hijrdan, for whom a warrant from Melbourne was out, for fraudulent bankruptcy. Be was discharged at the P >lice Court, Superintendent Thomson sUting he believed the pris >ner'a brother, who hs I gone tr> AmHrica, was the defailter. Pariek Riordin's wife was a passer gar also by the steamer. They left by the Zealandia. Messrs VV. Redmond and Wa!-h arrived by the Zealandia. Their movements are un decided as yet j probably they will leave by the Tarawera on TburjcNy for the South, going, it is said, to Dunedin direct. The Zealandia left with £150,000 m specie •hipped at Sydney, and 25 boxes of g Id shippfd at Auckland, worth £57.756. Capt. Bavory, late matter of the schooner Energy, is a passenger. He goes Home to superintend tho construction of a 600 ton iron Fteamer intended to run with coal between Greymouth and Auckland, to cost £10,000. Tho new steamer will be additions! to the present fleet owned by Stone Bros., Auckland, on behalf of which firm Savory has undertaken to superintend the building of the vessel and bri»g her out. The Auckland footballers were entertained at ft publio dinner, at which the Mayor presided. In his speech he said when ho invitation to preside last Saturday he sc cepted it ■with pleasure, but on seeing statements from a Wellington journal he felt die inclined to do bo. On ihe arrival of Henderson ho had fully gone into the circumstances of the dispute at Wellington, nr.d he had come to the conclusion that Henderson could tako no other course. He entirely coincided with the way m which Henderson had carried out the affair. The team exproKied themselves pleased with their southern tour. The banquet was a great success. There was an excellent attendance. Nbw PtTUOtlin, Bept. 11. Thoi. Weir, charged with attempting to obtain an insurance policy by certain false pretences, was committed to take his trial at the next sittings of tho Supreme Court. Accused was sleo committed for trial by the Coroner for alleged arson. Weliinqtov, Sept. 11. Whioh of tho Ministry will represent Government at tho Conference on Pacific Islands Annexation, to be held at Sydney next month, bat now been definitely settled by the Cabinet. The boiler used for the purpose of driving a wood-cutting machine at Mr S. Brown's wood and coal yard, Tory street, exploded »t one o'clock this afternoon. The concussion was felt over the greater portion of the town. The ehed m which the boiler was siiueUd was completely wrecked, and large sheets of corrugated iron were carried into the neighboring yards some rtistince away. A horso that was standing within live yards of tbo explosion escaped uninjured, but the cart was twisted about considerably. One wheel was wrenched off, and it was otherwise to damaged as to render it unfit for use Ihe boiler itself is a mass of broken iron plates, being torn as if made of brown paper, and (ome of tho heavy parts were lifted to the opposite eido of the yard. Fjrtimately no person was hurt. A woman was m the yard pinking up wood at the time, bu'. beyond a fright she received no injury. The manager and one of the workmen were m the ehed adjoining, eating thoir dinner, who > the accident occurred, and they m no wav can account for the eiplosioo. A larga numinr of windows were smashed by tha conomsion. Boas, S^pc 11. The Ross United Goldmining Company tapped a grout body of water on Saturday, und it rushed like a mill stream down the underground tail race. All tho men at work below had juat time to escape with their lives. Nbison, Bept. 11. A dead body was found on the sands this morning, near the residence of Hr Green, by one of his eons. It has been brought to town. Tho head is gone and nearly all %\\e flesh, but the waistcoat, fhirt. trousers and boots aro on it. The remains are evidently thoio of Reader, one of those drowned fnur weokß ago m the pilot boat catastrophe. The boots have I been recognised by the man who made them I for Reader. An inquest will bo held. ' CHBIBTCHOEOH, Sept. 12. I At the Supremo Court m Chamber?, an < application waa made on behalf of Mr John |j Deane for directions ai to the distribution of i

l hi* 1. wMrdoi £200 offered for the oonviction I"i the nun who (hot at him. Eight persons j linve clamed the rr ward. After dipeujsiun, ■•i ci*ion on the subject was deferred. The B>ard of Governors of Canterbury College have resolved with reference to the Head Master of the Boys High School ' That Mr Miller having staled m his printed circular dated Aug. 7th,1883, that ' by repaid protests 1 acquired v few fieflnito rights. Many cases of interference I hari to submit to without protrßt, I have more than onco been on the point of appealing to the whole body of Governors for consideration of ft etate of things whi"li w<s beotning intL>lcr.ihle.' and the Board desiring to ascertain particulars of the alleged oases of interference, reanlve— That the R-gis'rar i« hereby instructed to write to Mr Miller md request him to sat» m writing— (l) What 'd-6nite rights' Mr Miller acquired by ' rcpeiteH protest*,' and when the protects wr.re made ; (2) particulars of tli» ■ many cases uf interference' Mr Miller had m cub-nit to." At th- C'lrii-tchurch meeting of the Board of G 'Vernors, not.i-es of moti n were given, one propping flint arrangements should be male for transferring the care of tho public librar- from the G-vernoreti the City Council, the. other for transferring tie cira of the boys an-1 girls High Schools to some other body. Dunediv, Sept. 11. A b-\v, ag<-d between 3 nnd 5 years, waa killed m King street, at tho St. Datid street crossing, at about a quart'r to four o'clock, (his afternoon. His name is Bradley, Ha was running across the road fn m a dray and did not «<-e tho iteam motor cimini, aDd before the driver of the latter cinlrt pull up, the boy wu« knocked down and killed instantaneously. The ship Dunedin h&s bfgun to load froren meat. Dr Balchelor, and Hugh Macneil. the wellknown cricketer, will play lawn-tsnnis for Du'icrlin, ag>»in3t Me-ars Dargarillo and MeD'nald of AueUanH, on Saturday. Tomorrow they play Messrs McDonald and Wilkinson, a'so of Auckland. There was great excitement oVKrthe arriral of Major and Mrs Barker, of the t'aWation Army, from Melbourne. to-ni?ht. An immense crowd assembled at tho railway etation, from which the »Uitors were driven to the barracks, headed by a bruta band, with torches blazing. The precession was accompanied by a large number of larrikins ho ting and jelling. As the barrackß were approached rotten eggs Tvore produced and thrown at the Salvati"nists, and for about aa hour there was a tremendous commotion. J-ome women fainted m the crush, and others wore er\ing from the rough u<aee they ractired. Tlie police eventually managed to clear the streets. iNVBBOAEOItL, Sept 11. The inquest was rpßumed yesterday on the body of the infant lately fonnd at Woodlands. No additional lyidence wai forthcoming. an'l the jury returned the following verdict: — "That the body of the Slid male child was found m some water, with marks of violence thereon, but how, or by what means it came to its death is to the jurors unknown." The premises of Deiley & Moir, upholsterers, Dee street, narrowly eeciped being set on lira some time between Saturday night and Monday morning, through the ignition of a heap of straw m an adj iaiog ehed. How the heap caught fire is not known, but it is supposed to ba»e been the work of an incendiary. Early on Sunday a fire waa discovered m a vacant honse m Yarrow street, the property of Lawrence Finnerty. A constable got m by the window and extinguished the dime!. He found that a hole had been burned clean through tbe flooring and that near at hand was a heap of kerosene-soaked scrim, rags and paper. Investigation showed that through tbe flaor of the porch behind tbe house two email holes had also been burned, and the turmiie is that, with the object of making assurance doubly sure, the intending incendiary had started fire! m several places.