INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5194, 15 July 1891, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By TsMORAFn. ) ATJOKIiAWD, July 14. A gum digger named R. Hobioaon, died from exposure at Qumtown, Mercury Bay. Ethel, daughter of Mr Thomas Forley, commission agent, died of coocusßion of the brain through a fail coming down stoira. The chairman of the Charitable Aid Board mentioned at » mneting Chat there were a lot of men m the Costley Home determined not to work. He said that something must be done m the matter, and suggested that a new law should be framed makine work compulsory. The board decided that Messrs Hi-sketh and Biohmond be asked to prepare a bye-law to remedy the evil. The Bey. Mark Guy Pearso was taken wilh friends on a steamer on a harbonr .excursion. KBW PLYMOUTH, Svvt U. A5 the District Court io day John Stitl, of Opuna. I <o,G!ed a petition asking that To Wiliti, the Pnrihaka chief, xhouid be declared a bankrupt. The bailiff proved th^.t To Whiti had no goods of his own, nnd c f her evidence was cailed to show that ho hh.'i ret. sad to pay the amount of his debts judgniont icr which had been given ngainafc him. 'Xho order was grantod, mid To Whiti declared a bankrupt W. Barnard, tbfl well-known oporling man and owner of Jonny, waa charged at the Police Court tfiis morning with entering a butcher's shop tftor dark and stealing » leg of mutton, etc.- On being ar.-oatod he knocked ■Constable Scully doCO and ran away, but ■was afterwards captures by the constable. He w»i remanded till Moncky". The Magiasrate refuaed to allow accused out Ofl bsjl, MARTON", JtJtr 14. A. fotnittanco man named W. Charley, attempted to cut his throat with a table inifa at the breakfast tablo at Hunterrillo this morning. He inflicted a long but not deep Sjaoh, which bled freely. Ho was brought to town by a constable and sent to the Wanganui hospital. WELIISGTOII, July U. The Paul stales that the idea of forming a team of football girls m New Zealand has been abandoned. A correspondent of iho Kama paper writes to «ay that ho has beon obeorvfng th« sun lately, and has novor seen it so coverod witli spots as now. There ore fivo largo groups risible, each including many spots. Up to a late hour there <r;is no oign of the Aorangi, and she h&d not been /lignsiled from Farewell Spit. OAMAEU, JnvvU. Jolm Yoroston, on escaped luuui'w, was

■ arrested jejterdnv at P<oiikuio by tho police. Hocsoapod from So-iclifE Aaylum on the 10th ' inst. nnd arrived at. l?Apakiiu> yeetci-d.iy. Ho 1 bailed up a eettler 1 ,. house, and the occupants j turning out m alarm Yornaton took possession of the house, oud was only arrested with difficulty by tbo police und brought to town at midnight. Ho escaped once beforo from Clyde, aft which tituo ho committed a rape on a girl while at large. DUNEDIN, July 14. Throe cottagas at South Dunedin were burnt down 11113 morning. It was reported that Susan Stark, ono of the occupants, was burnt, but sho turned up m v half drunken state.