INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2263, 8 December 1896, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

;'. ;. -.; ( — ♦ —, ■ ... . ■_,-. ..... (By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND, .December 7. At the inquest on the body of James Liddle, butcher of the steamer Te Anau, who fell over the wharf into the sea at 2 o'clock on Saturday morning while attempting to get on board the steamer and who was rescued and taken to the hospital where he died, the verdict was death from pneumonia, the effect of submersion, but that there was no evidence to show how he got into the water. Dr Hooper gave evidence that Liddlo's condition indicated a state of intoxication. Deceased had friends in Wellington. NAPIER, Dpcember 7. Louis Cantle, aged about3o, committed suicide yesterday, by cutting his throat with a table knife. Deceased was a prohibited person. He had been in the habit of taking chlorodyne and painkiller. At the Magistrates Court to-day John Adeane, secretary of Mr R. D. McLean's election committee, was charged with having signed his name to a form for j enrolment purporting to-be signed by Eustace Fannin, an absentee. Defendant pleaded not guilty. The evidence showed that Pannin who was a resident of OJisborne at the time, sent a form written in pencil to his wife to be forwarded to the registrar. Adeane said that he witnessed the- signature of a man who gave the name of Eustace Fannin. The maiu point rested on the difference of spelling of the two names. The benclj dismissed the case. William Douglas, sheep-farmer, was fined £5 and costs, to-day, for running sheep from a run declared to be infested by liver fluke. He stated that he had known fluke to exist in the colony for forty years, and in that particular district for thirty-three years. It had only just been discovered by the Stock Department. \ WELLINGTON, December 7. Thu Tax Department notifies that alter

December 10th, ten per cent, additional will by the Act be charged on all land tax assessments then remaining unpaid. Tenders for the New Zealand debenture loan of £500,000 closed at noon today and willbe opened during the afternoon by; a committee consisting of the Colonial Treasurer, the Controller and Auditor-General, and Mr H. Kember. OHRISTCHURCH, December 7. At the inquest on the body of a man named Edmund Beckett, aged 68, who died suddenly at Linwood on Saturday, a verdict that death was caused by the rupture of an aneurism of the aorta, was returned. , ■ DUNEDIN, December 7. William Hall, a miner, was found dead in his house at Clyde. Frnnciß R. Dawson, six years old, was drowned at Lawrence to-day. A syndicate has been formed in London, called the Otago syndicate, which is prepared to treat for mining and other properties. Sir .W. B. Perceval is managing director in London, and Mr R. Hay, O.E M is colonial manager and consulting engineer!