INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1441, 27 December 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, December 24.

Hood has been committed for trial for the Ohaewai post office safe robbery Halliday, who turned approver, was admitted to bad. The cave of altered Impersonation at the Waitemata election against fleiry Brady, has been remanded till the 29th A criminal summons has been issued for Thomas Kelly, of Wade, In connection with the affair. Bushmen, withTarge cheques, continue to pour into the city for ihe holidays, and it Is expected “ lambing down ” will go on briskly Blenheim, December 24.

The funeral >*f the late Mchdeaoon Bu t yesterday was the largest known in Marlborough, The shops were dosed, and buriueei was suspended. Bishop Sutor performed the service. Many Maoris attended, and showed ranch grief on account of th-t death of the venerable gentleman. Gisborne, December 26.

A yonng man, named Janus Waylie, was found on Christmas morning hanging to a tree in one of the suburbs of the town. He bad been missing from his home a few days, and was known to have been in a despondent state of mind. It was a case of deliberate suicide. He evidently cimbed up the tree, tied a hempen and wire rope r >und his neck, and jumped off The drop was 20ft, and death must have been instantaneous, The gear used must have taken some time to erect. At the inqnest a verdict of “ suicide while of unsound mind ” was returned Gretmooth, December 25. While H. Dobson’s party were surveying for the Midland Rai.way, dose to Lake Brunner, they came across so enormous red pine (rlmu) 66ft in ciroam erence, between 180 ft and 200 ft without a branch. Other trees of the cluster are large, but nothing \o this monarch of the forest. Steps are to be taken for the protection of the giant tree. Dunedin, December 2L A poundkeeper was to-day fined 5* and costs for charging for feed for horses which he had net given them. It appeared from tho evidence that he had fed the horses before 6 a.m., whereas the Act provides that they shall be tea between six sad nine.