INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3966, 24 June 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND, June 23. Mr H. W. Farnall has announced that he will contest Auckland North with Mr Thompson. On Jubileo night a robbery was perpetrated on the premises of Mr LevinBohn, tobacconist, on Queen Btreet wharf. £38 were stolen. No cluo haß yet been obtained to tho offender. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 23. A youth named James Reilly was sentenced at the District Court to six months' imprisonment and fifteen lashes far a oriminal assault on a little girl. Operations at the ironworks commence to-morrow, when Mr Hipkins will commence to blow out the furnace. It is expected to have the furnace topped on Saturday. The manager is very sanguine of the success of the trial smelting. MASTEUTON, June 23. A man named Jno. Williams wont into the bedroom of a settler named T. Hurley at the Union Boarding-house at midnight, and was stabbed by the latter m the groin. Hurloy was brought before the R.M. and remanded for a week. WELLINGTON, June 23. A man named Thomas Thomson appeared m the Court this morning on five chargeß of burglary and house-break-ing at the Hutt. Considerable sums of money and jewellery have been lost by residents there. Thomson was remanded for a week. He has been wanted for the last four years for various offences alleged to have beeu committed at Halcombe and Auckland. A compensation case began to-day m which the Trusteeß of the Rhodes estate claim £10,000 from Government for land taken for the Battery site and damage to estate. The ball given by the Governor last night m honor of tho Queen's Jubilee was attended by 800 people. While the National Anthem was being sung at Carterton by 700 children, Mrß Eagle, a lady well known all over VVairarapa, fell down man apoplectic fit. She is at present m a comatose condition, and is not expected to recover. This sad event cast quite a gloom over the district. Dr Cole announces that he will be a candidate for the fourth Wellington seat. It is asserted that the reason Hurley stabbed Williams at Maaterton was that he thought the latter had entered his bedroom for the purpose of robbing him. The Under-Secretary of the Colony has again written to Land Boards asking them, with a view to economy, to hold meetings less frequently. The Board here decided to ascertain what the other Boards intend to do. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court open ou the 4th prox. The calendar comprises eleven charges against nine prisoners, none being of a serious character. WESIPORT, June 23. In the football tournament, Greymouth beat Reefton by 11 points to nil, and Weßtport beat Greymouth by 7 points to nil. The brigantine Oceola is still ashore. It has been decided to discharge her cargo of coal. The owners have decided to abandon the vessel. DUNEDIN, June 23. Messrs E, B. Cargill and Hutchison are likely to be candidates for Dunedin Central. The body of Senior Constable Porter, who had been stationed at Port Chalmers, was found m the bay to-day, he having evidently fallen off the wharf while going hia round. At the annual meeting of the Perpetual Trustees Estate aud Agency Company, the gross income was shown to be £4460, and the nett profit £710, which with the balance from last year made £1100. Out of this a dividend of 4 per cent for the yeai ■was proposed. The report was adopted. JVIr W. H. Reynolds and Mr Walter Hislop, the retiring directors, were reelected. In the Supreme Court to-day, a case was heard m which it was sought to recover the amount of prize money m a dingy race from the Regatta Club. The question involved was whether the winner of the race had gone the proper course. It was admitted that he had not, and the learned judge held that the regatta judges had no right to rectify a mistake when they discovered it, and ho gave a verdict for the plaintiff.