INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LV, Issue 5548, 26 October 1892, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(BY I'ELBORAPH. ) AUCKLAND, Oot. 25. The Hon Mr Reeves has reoeived a telegram [from Wanganui, Btuting that Mr Ballance is \ lin good health, lt is denied that the Premier's ■ illness is due to organic diaoaoe, but wholly to overwork m lho conscientious discharge of publio duty. Judgment m Tennyson Cole, tho well known artist's case, orders him to pay £1 weekly, . and give his own security m £50, and an additional eecurity m £5, guaranteeing the ( payments for ft year, or m default one month. ( Dr G'los commented strongly on tho principle ( of solicitors giving ovidonoo when engaged m * a cose, and said ho felt confident the practice, t if generally adopted, would do moro to injiiro ■ the dignity of the profoision than anything ( ho could eoncoive. The Bench conaidored the wifo ill-advised m bringing a case not cal- , oulatod to ossiet her, oud it might injure her ( husband's prospects. Tbe evidence failed to ( prove the intention of the defendant to leave f by tho Worrimoo, but ho believed Cole did ( coma to Auckland partly with tho intention 1 of deserting his wife. j NAPIER, Oct. 25. A five-roomed cottage at Hastings was destroyed by fire this morning. It. belonged to i Mr Aldridge. The butcher's shop adjoining was saved. Tho insuraneo is £140 on tho house and £80 on the furniture m the New Zealand office. A Pakeha Maori named Clark, living with natives at Waipawa pah, has beeu nrrosted ond charged with placing a Bteel rail aorosß the railway near Wiiipawa. Ho denied the charge, and was remanded till Friday. WELLINGTON, Oct. 25, Tho City Council have deoided to strike a rate of ls m tbe £ tor interest and sinking fund on tbe sanitation loan* j Ths Trado and Labour Council presented j Mr Bigg with an illuminated addreso m j honour of hiß elevation to the Counoil. t Mr Seddon has received a telegram that , four parties are on good gold at Callighan's j raoe extension, near Kumara. Tbe prospects i give 4dwlo to sdwts to the load. ( S. Proudfoot, Official Liquidator of tbo ; Wellington Co-operative Hutohery Company, j came np on remaad bofore Mr Justice HichmoEtd, this morning, oo a writ of attachment, for neglecting an order of the Court to supply the oreditors witb a statement of accounts m j connection with the winding up of. the company. Bie Honour remanded the case ] for a fortnight, but allowed bail, remarking ■■ that accused would then have no excuse for j not filing aocouotß. Bail was found. ] It is stated that alterations will shortly be ] made m the stationing of the various Police ; Inspectors. ] BLENHEIM, Oct. 25. 1 A lad named Alfred Philpots, son of a storekeeper at Pieton, died ia the hospital this ; morning, whilst under chloroform, adminis- ] terod to remove a dead bone fr.ra bis leg. r Three medical men were present, ond every- _ t.hiDg wob done lo restore animation without , success. KELSON, Oct 25 1 At an early hour this morning information ' was given to the polico that an old man named George Matthews, aged 78, had beon found lying dead onthe ibor of the stokehole of a r mallhouse whero deceased wbb employed. : Serious wounds were found on thß bock of the head and tbe brain mutter was protruding. ' A dootor has givon it ub his opinion that th» .. wound, must have b.en produced by foul Later. ' The medical opinion is now to the effect ' that do ith might havo been cau.ed by : accident. < At tbo inquest touching tbe death of . Georgo Mathews, a verdict of death caused by an accidental fall was arrived at. OHfIiaiCHDRCH, Oct. 25 J This evening _. middle-aged man, named . William Johnslon, who cams to day from ] Napier m the Tolun*", and intendod going to 1 England m the Rimutaka. fell down m j Oxford street, Lyttelton, and died almost . immediately. The cause of death was the ] rupture of an artery. < DUNEDIN, Oct. 25. The local Liberals and representative mem- t bers of labour bodies presented an illuminated • address to Mr Bolt, congratulating him on his ; elevation. ]