INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3833, 15 January 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) , , Auckland, Jan. 14. The Post-office Savings Bank returns show a reduction m the balance to the credit of depositors, of £22.000. There is at credit £292,852. Peilding, Jan. 14. An elderly man named Adyon was knocked down yesterday by a mob of young horses and died from concussion of the brain. Wellington, Jan. 14. It. J. Wilson who was arrested and charged with complicity m the abortion case, was remanded to Christchurch and left by the mid-day steamer. The Minister of Public Works returned from Christchurch to-day, and leaves for Greymonth to turn the first sod of the Miiiland Railway on Monday. Twenty-five cases of apples by the Te Anau thi3 morning were confiscated by the Customs, as they wore infected with the codlin moth. Hobart plums and pears wero m (,'ood condition. The amount expended for the supply of alcoh'lic liquors to the hospital last year was £400 below the amount of the previous year. The argument m the case of Baldwin v. Graham and others, members of the Gisborne Harbour Board, being a motion for an inj:inction to restrain defendants from proceeding with the harbour works at Gisborne, was concluded m banco this afternoon. The Chief Justice reserved his decision. Hoeitika, Jan. 14. The perjury cases cloßod at half-past nine to-night. The information against Meharry, the late teacher, was dismissed, and his wife was committed for trial. The action taken by Hungerford, contractor of Greymouth, m the Supreme Court here, against M. Kennedy and D. McLean, two members of the Grey mouth Harbor Board, for having business relations with the board whilst holding such positions, resulted m their resignations instead of Jtheir filing a defence. Dunedin, Jan. 14. At the Presbyterian Synod it was announced that a Sustentation Fund dividend of £104 5s 6d had been declared. It waa resolved to send down to the Kirk Session a remit from the Southland Presbytery, asking' that deacons and other officers should apt be required to sign the confession of faith. The 1 unemployed have prepared & memorial, signed by 03 married men to be presented to Messrs Hazel and Kirke, 'tine emigration delegates from London, with the object of bringing under their

notice their position, and tho relation of that position to emigration. Tho convict Hall was lodged m Dunodin Gaol shortly before noon to-day. The action arising out of tho West Waitahuna dummyism has been discontinued. At tho evening sitting of tho Synod it waa resolved to continue the agitation for the introduction of the Bible m State schools, and to co-operato with other Protestant bodies with the view of securing their object.