INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3567, 6 March 1886, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Auckljnd, March 5. James Bracewell, railway engine-driver, died m the Hospital from injuries received •while entering with a train tho Tuakua station. He was looking out and struck his head against a. wnter-tunk. He leaves a widow and five children. An inquest is to bo held. The Resident Magistrate has not jet fixed a date for a scrutiny into the City South licensing election, m which three moderate members are petitioned against, and "will probably be unseated through a number of voting papers being informal. Wellington, March S. Mr Jellicoe, the solicitor, received a telegram from Mr J. D. Lance, M.H.8., stating thai he bus forwarded a letter of apology to Mr Williamson, sbarebroker, for words used by Mr Lance m reference to the latter gentleman at tho banquet to tbe Governor at Westport. A sailor belonging to the steamer Kiwi is reported to be missing since Sunday last. Ho is believed to have fallen into the harbor and been drowned. Dr Grabham was to-day presented with a handsome afternoon tea service, manufactured entirely of Thames silver, and a beautifully engraved and illuminated address. The presentation was mado on behalf of the officers of tho Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals throughout the colony. The Premier leaves to-day to attend the University Senate at Christcburoh. A Cabinet meeting was held yesterday, but it i 3 understood that nothing of consequence was done, and the great questions of a dissolution and publio workß policy will not be considered till a full Cabinet is assembled at the end of nest week. The Hons. Larnach and Tole will then be back. The Harbor Bonrd have increased the salary of Mr Ferguson, their engineer, from £700 to £800 a year, to date from January last year. Hokitika, March 5. The Bank of New Zealand shipped to-day 2520 ounces of gold valued at £10,000, being their month's purchases. The yield has been low owing to the dry season. The manager of the Ross United Company reports to-dny that tho jiekl shows an improvement on the results of previous washings. Both faces m the prospecting drive are looking well. Ross, March 5. The Hospital Committee meet to-night to investigate certain charges brought against Dr McLeod, Surgeon Superintendent of the Institution, for his treatment of a late patient. There is considerable excitement over the Boss United Goldmining Company's new find. The Company continues driving across the auriferous layer, which is now 51 feet wide and 5 feet thick. Last night's results gave 30 z 15dwt from about two loads of wash, and tho yield is still improving. CltßisTcnuHcn, March 5. Only ten of the unemployed applied for -work "at the terras offered, 4s a day. The others stand out for ss. They hold three meetings m Cathedral Square to-day. The firßt, at ten o'clock, was attended by 150 men. An inquest is to be held at Southbridgo tomorrow on a woman named McMillan, who had. died m childbirth on February 25th. No doctor was present, and malpractice by the nurse is suspected. At the University Senate to-day it was resolved to appoint a Committee to consider whether it would be advantageous to divide tbe passes at matriculation into two classes, according to merit, and at the Committee's discretion, to prepare a scheme of qualification for the first class. Mr M. Murphy, Secretary of tho Agricultuial and Pastoral Association, has forwarded to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition two cases, containing samples of 'grasses and grain m straw, many of which are of extraordinary growth. The Amuri County Council have objected to pay the quota demanded from them by the United Charitable Aid Board for North Canterbury, their contention being that the basis of the assessment should be population, and not area. Mr Caleb Whitefoord, who is appointed with two other Commissioners to hear the appeal, eat this evening, but the argument was postponed to Tuesday, toenablo the counsel for the appellant to obtain statistics upon which to found his argument. Oajiatut, March 5. Mrs Johanna Croft was to-day committed to take her trial at tbe Supremo Court, on a charge of having set fire to a dwelling house, with intent to dofraud the Colonial Insurance Company. Tho furniture m the house was insured for £175. Dunbdiw, March 5. A young man named Allen, son of a commission agent, had both his thumbs and two fingers of his left hand blown off while handling dynamito caps not knowing what they were. A young man named Wilson, 19 years of age, na< killed near Kaitnngata by being thrown from his horse, which took fright by a sieter of deceased's handing him a tin billy. At the inquest on tho body of A. U. Woollet, chemist, of Green Island, tho evidence of tbe widow wa9 to the effect that deceased had gone to the shop during the night and mixed himself a dose rf chloral hydrate and morphia. Aa he did not seem to know what he was doing with pain, and took the medicine m a frequent and reckless manner, she took the bo.ttlo from him. As he was (hon ill she sent for a doctor and administered two emetics, but neither were effective. The medical evidence showed death to huve been caused by an overdose of morphia and chloral hydrate, and a verdict to that effect wa3 given.