INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3588, 31 March 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Auckland, March 30. At an inquest on Mrs Askew, the jury r<v turned a verdict of death from misadventure through an overdose of laudanum. The Maoris, not to be outdone by their white brethren.are getting up a congratulatory address to Sir George Grey to be presented on his 74th birthday. It is reported a man unknown committed suicide by jumping into the Waikato river at Cambridge last night. The police are making a vigorous search. The Hon. Mr Buckley has returned to Auckland from "Waikato. OSomc of the oystermen uot paying attention to tho close season the police seized several boatloads of oysters. A private cablegram states tho Tainui left Plymouth on the 27th March for Auckland direct. ■Wellington, March 30. Judge Williams, m reply to an enquiry by the Minister of Justice, expresses the opinion that the woman Mary Moran, under trial for infanticide, cannot be tried at the ensuing criminnl sessions of the Supreme Court. The woman will therefore be released on trial, and m order to prevent a recurrence of any similar case, Mr Tolo is communicating with resident magistrates, requesting them, m sending cases for trial, to order that they shall be at the nearest and earliest Supreme Court. The Premier will not return to Wellington for ten days. The Colonial Secretary is expected to arrive by the Ilinemoa towards the end of tho week. Mr W. L. Bees will probably address tho Chamber of Commerce on Friday, with regard to his co-operative federation scheme. Mr Rees intends to address other Chambers m the South, and will then proceed to England m order to bring his views before Trades and Labour Societies there. Mr A. G. Thomson has been appointed Secretary to the nealy-established benevolent institution. Tho police m Otago have effected the arrest of Thomas Gibson, ex-clerk of the Petone Town Board, who ha* been wanted

for a considerable time on several charges of forgery, with intent to defraud that corporation. I'he accused was taken into custody while working on Mr Pollock's Btation, near Balclutha, where he has been employed for a number of months, and where ho was known us Thomas Courtenay. Ho is charged with having on tho 16th February, 1884, forged tho name of E\ McLeod to an order for £27 17s 4d, with intent, to defraud tho Petone Board, and also with having forged an acceptance receipt for £10 Is, on the 15th May, with intent to defraud tho Board. He disappeared from ■Wellington about eighteen months ago, and was only recently discovered on Pollock's station. Twenty-four of tho' Southern unemployed passed through here to-day en route for Greymonth. An advertising " sandwich man " has been summoned and fined 6s and costs for breach of the by-laws. J. H. Corbett, formerly a publican at Masterton, died here this morning of typhoid fever. The Penoko Football Club play against the Merivale and East Chrißtchurch clubs at Christchurch during Easter. A man named Joseph Robertson, charged with attempting rape, has been remanded until to-morrow. Government are making enquiries as to the condition of the mnlberry trees m New Zealand m order to ascertain whether the present is a good time to obtain silkworm's eggs. DimjEDiN, March SO. The Accident Insurance Company's report Bhows a debit balance of £1599, due to excessive competition and large expenditure m Australian business, which haß been abandoned. At the annual meeting of the Benevolent Institution the report showed that during the year 81 wives, with 279 children, had been doserted by their husbands. IntbbcaboilL; March 30. At the Supreme Court to-day, John Giles ■was found guilty of uttoring a forged cheque and sentenced to nine months' hard labor. C. H. Mower pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery from a dwelling and received nine months. Thos. Spencer for unlawfully assaulting a girl under 12 years, was acquitted. There was a grand display of aurora Australis to-night.