INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3689, 29 July 1886, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Auckland, July 28. The Waitaki has been chartered to run the coal trade out of Greymouth. The whaler Alaska is at Russell, detained by the Customs authorities there. It is alleged that whilst at the Chatham Islands she landed a quantity of goods upon which duty had not been paid. Superintendent Thomson has instructed the police parties searching for Caffrey and Perm to return to town. They ran to earth the two men at Waitakaui falls, whom the settlers had declared to be Caffrey and Perm. They proved to be two wandering gumdiggers. An assistant relieving officer has been appointed. There were 170 applicants for the appointment. Tho salary is £100. The boy Humphrey, who was arrested on a charge of rifling letter-boxes at tbe Post-office, has been discharged on the ground that there was no proof of the abstraction of letters. Wellington, July 28. At the Supreme Court to-day sentence, which had been deferred m the case of Richard Aldridge, for larceny of 14s 3d from the person, was passed, and prisoner was sentenced to five years' hard labour. In the House to day the Minister of Justice stated that a medical officer had examined Te Wliiti, who is m custody here, and be had reported that Te Whiti's was one of the soundest chests he had examined. Ghristohttrch, July 28. Mrs Moore, of Ejyroton, aged fifty-five years, committed suicide this morning by cutting her throat with a razor.