INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3329, 29 May 1885, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Auckland, May 28. At the annual meeting of the Auckland Fibre Company the report stated the net proGt— £677 — had been carried forward, making the balance at credit of profit and loss £1497. Mr J. M. Clark and Mr C. B. Stone were re-elected Directors. Boulton, the prisoner who recently attempted suicide at Mount Eden Gaol by opening an artery, has made another attempt by strangling and been committed to the Lunatic Asylum. Hugh Hast Lusk, a solicitor, has been declared a bankrupt. His statement showed liabilities, £3937 ; assets, book debts, £657, estimated to yield £75. Other assets are secured. The Home correspondent of the Herald states that shortly after the sailing of the Kaikoura from London, it was discovered that a tradesman of Cambridge had eloped with a girl m her teens, and deserted a wife and eleven children. He was recognised on board by a sailor and a passenger, who communicated with the wife's friends. The guilty pair are supposed to hare landed at Auckland, and justice is now on their trail. Weisington, May 28. Ab yet no clue has been found to the perpetrator of the jewellery robbery. The value of the goods stolen is now estimated at £800. The Government were m Cabinet the whole of this afternoon. Most of the principal measures to bo presented to Parliament by Ministers arc now complete. The following gentlemen are gazetted superintendents of quarantine: — H. S. McKellar, Wellington 5 Thos. Hill, Auckhind ; Ales. Eobo, Lyttelton ; and James Hackworth, Dunedin. ISvi&os, May 28. A man named Win. H. Lloyd was brought over from Collingwood m the steamer today, and was at once taken to the Hospi'al. Ten minutes after his admission he died. Tho cause of death was heart disease. He was about 60 years of age, and had been a miner m the Collingwood district for about 26 years. Gseyiiotjth, May 28. Marriott Sheard, a coalminer, was killed instantaneously m the Brunner coalmine this evening, while working m that part of tho mine where the banquet was held when tho Premier visited hero. Not quite a truck of coal and stone fell on him. He was 30 years of nge, and leaves a widow and seven children. Chbistchtoch, May 28. After considering the determination of the Postmaater-General that the mails by the direct steamers should leave Lyttelton every fourth Sunday, the Harbor Board resolved to-day that unless under special circumstances of emergency, neither the Harbor Board's pilot, staff, nor the steam-tug will be made available to take steamers out on Sundays. The Board also resolved to support the action taken by other Harbor Boards to have an alteration made m the Harbors Act so Jihat tho Government should be required to pay wbarfngo on material imported by ihom,

The first annual report on the Sailors' Home shows that during the thirteen months the institution has been open 440 seamen have been accommodated, there ; the expenditure has been £891, and the receipts leave a debit balance of £173. His Excellency the Governor bus informed the Board of Governors of Canterbury College that under present arrangements ho cannot interfere m regard to the difficulty which has arisen between the Board and the University Senate about the introduction of certain plays of Terence into tho pass Latin course. Mr L. Harper, M.H.R. for Avon, addressed his constituents at Fapanui to-night. He avowed himself a supporter of the Ministry as long as they adhered to the policy they had enunciated when taking office. He received a vote of confidence. Dunedin, May 28. At the Police Court to-day ten boys, ranging m age from seven- to ten years, were charged with stealing Il2lbs of raisins. The parents wero ordered to chastise tho boys. Tho father of one suggested that the parents should have been summoned, ns they would be having babies m Conrt next. An inquest was held to-day on a five-Year-old child, who was supposed to have died from negligence of tho parents, but the medical evidenco disclosed nothing beyond the fact of the child having been very weak and suffering from wasting disease. The jury considered the parents wero deserving of great censure for not procuring medical attention.