INTERPROVINCIAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume 27, Issue 950, 27 June 1883, Page 6

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Pet Press Association.) , ' Auckland, June 19th. s ' W.G. Garrard, labour agitator; has served a writ on 'Mr L Cotter, solicitor, ' registry-officer of oity North, claiming j £600 damageafprfalseimprisonment, when [ [prosecuted by .that official for alleged fraudulent enrolment of votes on the roll for City Nojrth. In his declaration Garrard states that on October 13th, 1881, defendant imprisoned him for nine hours and got him placed ; under police superyis- - ion for three moiitns. wherefore he claims in respect of sai3 'imprisonment and police supervision £500rtifat being the extent of damage he suffered, by reason of consequent loss of employment, injury to his character,i and breach,, of agreement, to , proceed to England. , The case will not ' come before i the Court before the 18th July next. „ -,' !., , ( ; ;■ , [, „ , .... : ,,- June 24th. „ A fire <broke out at Hesketh and

Aitken'a produce ,store, .Durham-street, at „.11;o 'clock,l ast night, but was got under . (i by,.the, Fi«e ; Brigade. On the top storey / .ffiereastooed flitx* grass seed, eta. The ■ bttildingiwad itisweddtor £400 in the South. . British,, and' thectatock for £150 in the ; same office. A«lthei fire originated in the riflax w»tfoh,utii& supposed it had heated. • n, 1 nti-.iii/. ; '' 'i ■!. June>2sth,

The Bey. MrJEfobbs, the oldest Wesleyan missionary in Australia, and father ' U)t> tho'mdfabeir for' the of Islands, Uibd lttt nigVt 1 in his .85th year: He nrriVo&'in NeVZeftatid with the Rev. Samuel Martdett in 'ISSS? *. '. !i: The"#lue-!RitfW army had a field day to'-'day 1 at ( lt*e fc Tifeatre Royal. Papers adVo^tifi^pjpVrance'were read by various local clergymen 1111 11. 1 ', ' '•'. " t ' ' Nfcw Plymouth, June 22nd . !, Infelligefcce 'has reached town, 'from., "Waitaty that l the'cpofif of t"he Schooner, having lost hW passage, took' the. harbourmasters-boat from .her moorings , for the purpose of crossing; the bar and catching the vessel,, which, had left 15 t minutes, previously. ,On reaching the bar the boat capsized. The man-clung to the . boat and drifted seaward. The signalman seeing the accident, ran up the distress signal,, .but finding it was not answered immediatelygaye the alarm to the harbour- ', master, r who at> once proceeded .in a boat , ( tq.the' man?s re/sque. • The sea,, Jioveyer, was too' heavy, and the harbourmaster returned to. get up steam iii the steamer, MAturQa, during ; which time the man was drov^ed.' The out,, and , ttje-m^'s, body was reco'versd during the, afternoon,, ,^" j,/. ' ' ..vj,'; I '-.' •>'< , OppNAKB, June 20th. ; Nearly 3CK) Maoris.haVe 'passed through , tpwn on" their way to Parihaka. Fifty .occupied buggies, and the remainder were on^, horseback. 'All were, well dressed, arid none pullecL up_- at the hotels, but marched straight through Jike a cavalry" regitnfenk : Many 1 h'avfef Come from Wanganui, Waitotara, and other places down r the coast. Titokbwarau came along at 'ttie 'head of the procession. It is believed 1 they will only be permitted to remain at Parihaka 24 hours. ; : • 1 f : Wbllinoton, June 20th.

The 'three men who were 'arrested for creating a disturbance at the 6pe~ning of the Salvation- Army campaign were fined £5 and costs, or' 14 days' imprisonment ; one of. them, for assaulting the police, was sentenced to seven days without the option of a fine. In the latter case, notice of appeal was given. June 21st. A young man named Hewlings, said to be respectably connected in Christchurch, ' was to-day committed for trial on a charge of entering the PrinceßS Hotel and stealing therefrom a suit of clothes belonging to a lodger. , , , June 22nd. At the Magistrate's Court today a young man named Arthur Boyes, who ran away with another man's wife, was committed for trial on a charge of stealing certain -wearing apparel belonging to the aggrieved husband. June 23rd. James Lomas, a butcher residing at Wadestown, waß last night upbraided by his wife for the loss of money in land speculations. Immediately afterwards she left the house, and Lomas shot ' himself with a double-barrelled gun, death being instantaneous.. , ■ . , Patba, June 39th. A fire broke out this morning in Ludberg and: Co .; b furniture warehouse. . The upper storey was used.a* a workshop, and it is supposed some shavings had been ignited by a spark from a pipe; The stock, which! U valued at £2000, was considerably damaged,* but the building is not greatly injured, owing 'to t£e promptitude of the Brigade. The insurances were :— On the stock, £300 in the Colonial, ; and op the building £450, in the North British. Nelson, June 21st. . In the Lyell murder case, the jury retired at midnight, and, after an absence of forty-five minutes, returned a verdict of man-slaughter* The prisoner, in reply to the Judge; said that he had been convicted on the oath of a perjured prostitute and two perjured constables. The Judge sentenced him to penal "servitnde for life, sating, at the Bame time, that the juryhad taken a very merciful vidw of' the case,, as the evidence fully justified a ' verdict' of wilful murder., The case created a great deal, of excitement, the: Court- being crowded, during the jfrhole of the trial. .!.■,., .. , - ; .i , , June.2sth. - Heavy rain fell from Saturday, night* till early this morning. . A heavy flood occurred in. the Takaka District yesterday. It is ; the heaviest that, has been known there for-the list seven years. The tram■way was considerably damaged. and the approached were 1 partly 'carried f away. Traffic haVbeeH Stopped. t , ■ CH^usipHUßgH, ** une 20th. Two inenj. named /Burrell and King, . had a : figbt^Flaxto» yesterday. Burrell ' 'knocked King d'oV^/then kicked him on the head, andcheftt,- breaking several ribs . and inflicting .serious internal injuries. ' Burrell was arrested, and King is in the , Hospital. '- ■ " , • "' .The dead body of a middle aged woman i was found. <in the river. Ashley, near Rangicra, yesterday evening. , ,From the 1 appearance presented by the body, it had evidently been in the- water three orifour" wdeks. It has not yjet been identified^ The affair is 'mysterious, as no A one is' ' reported to be missing in the district. ''. '.<•■' ' ' June 21st. ''';"' ' .'lron columns are to be erected on the spoti where the. bodies of the little boys Lilly and Mason were found On the Port , Hills. ' ' ",. : ' , ' -A man named George Brown, while 1 drupk, s.tabbed a woman in the arm. The injurieiare not serious. ~ Kaikouba, June 25th.' c ,- "A"' shock of earthquake was*, felt 10' minutes before midnight.. It only lasied ; a few seconds. It 1 Was a heavy thud, fol-

lowed! by a slight trembling motion, the direction being about north and south. ; } < iHokitika, June 23rd. ■ The "West Coast Times" office was lighted with the electric light last evening. When the first lamp was lighted it was considered by those present an entire Buccess, but when the other lamps were turned on, the light became less steady, and the revolutions of the small gas-engine which acted as the motive power deoreased considerably. The light was not steady enough for printers to read "copy" comfortably, as after every explosion of the gas-engine a slight flicker in the light took place. It is intended to get a larger gas-engine, or probably substitute steam.