INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1333, 4 September 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, September 3 Davil Nathan, a piomiaent Jewish citizen, lately deceased, bequeathed £2OO to the AnckUnd Hospital, for lec ares to medical students, also £IOO to the Auckland Institute. £SOO to the Parnell Orphan Home, £SOO to the Roman Catholic Orphanage, £SOO t> the Auckland Synagogue, £2'o to the Jewish Benevolent Society, £7OO to the Jewish Charitable Society in London, besides large bequests to relations. John Thomas Clarke, watchmaker, bss been committed on a caarge of arson. Applications from selectors for lands under the Village Special Settlement system of perpetual lease and by deferred payment closed to-dny. One hundred and sixty applications were received for leases, six for deferred payment sections. The largest number of applications were for the Punak tore blcck there being in some instances ..s many as five persons after the same section. A resolution his bean carried by a majority of two in the City Council that, owing to the financial position of the city. It is not desirab e to feither maintain the Lock Hospital out of city funds. The overdraft on the general account is now £4O 000. Wanganui, September 3. The Native Minister, supported by the Mayor, presided at Mr Matthew Burnett’s tsmperance meeting to-night. The theatre was crowded to excess. Mr Ballance said It was the first time he had occupied such a position, but probably not the last. Ha appreciated to the full the great work done by Mr Burn tt, which had his heartiest sympathy. Invebcakgiu. September 3. The lumpers at the Bluff who have been receiving Is 61 per hour, declined to accept the lower rate of Is 3J which came into force this month. They refused to fill op the s.B. I'o‘omahaoa which arrived from North tc-iay, but the crew will be able to overt ike the work and get the steamer away at the usual time. A man named Benjamin Bowen, employed as a baser by Mr E. Foster, licensee of the Thornbury Junction Hotel, has been arrested on a charge of breaking into and stealing m-'-ney end valuables to the amount ot £l7, and also with attempting to bum the building down. An alarm was given by accused, and the fire was extinguiihel. When arrested, skeleton k«: s, giving admittance to the s ore were found on him. He admitted being in the .-tore, bat denied wilfully setting it on fire, averring that a piece of candle he had left there must have dene the mischief. Part of the missing money was also found in a bakehouse. & censed was brought up st Riverton, and reminded, bail being allowed himself in £SOO and two sureties of £250. The bond not being forthcoming accused wee lodged in gaol.