INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1456, 14 January 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, January 13. A bailiff, named Waloh, arrested a jockey or horse trainer, named Laing, at Notth Shore, for debt, when the Utter suddenly jumped overboard from the ferry steamer to eeoape, Tho bailiff got down to the Btringetß of the wharf and recaptured him.

Hokitika, January 13. The Mngistrate'B Court was occupied yesterday and to-d*y by three. Justices, hearing the perjary itiforrnnUon arising out of the recent Kokatahi Affiliation oaie The result so far 1b that one is dismissed, one w'thdrawn, and one oommittud. The Bench sat till after twolve last night, and is now sitting, hearing tho information againbt the late teaoher and his wife.

Dcnedin, January 13 The amount disbursed by the Benevolent Institution for out-door relief for the year was £6168 an Inoronee of over £1200 on the p'evioui yrar. The total number of parrons relieved was 2938

. P. B. Boult, clerk to the Like County Oou 1 oil, haß been arrested, charged with the laroony of a missing rate book. ft is reported that the defalcations exceed £2COO. There are aix sopnrate charges. A boy, two and a half yearn old, at Kaikorai, while swinging oa a r^pe attached to a fence, got the ropo twisted round his neck. He wps re.loieed io an almost unconscious state, and Is now suffering from congestion of t^e brain At tho meeting of tho Presbylorian Synod to-day, the report of tha Mission Committee, which rfoommtmded that an addrens bo presented from the Synod to Her Mfljisty's Givernmont, praying that the independence cf the New Hebrides group be scoured, was adopted.