INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1610, 15 July 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Wuuxgtok, July 14 It is probable the Hoa Sir Julius Yogel will leave for Lyttelton to-morrow.

An endeavor is to be made to carry on the hospital by meani of voluntary contributions.

Mr WH'cox's residence, Hill street, was broktn into early last evening. The thief was surprised and made off, but not before aeouring a gold watch and chain. Almost every d«y there are one or two suoh burglaries reported, and the police h&ve not the slightest clue to the thieves.

A boxing match has been arranged between Matthews and Richardson for £100 aside and the championship of New Zealand.

GRmrMOTTTH, July 14, Jfc-is reported th*t the Golden Fleeca United, Murray Greek, has been sold for £10,000.

Two children were brought into the Hospital on Wednesday evening from the Midland Railway Works, near Arnold. Some men were dynamiting logs for retiioval from the line when three children of one [family, named JSgan, stai ding at the corner of their reeideaoe clone by, were ail struck m the legs by piece s of the shattered wood from the explosion. One was slightly injured, but Mary Egan, nine years old, received a compound fracture of the left leg, just above the ankle, while the younger one, only eighteen months old, had one leg fractured ■I*o,

Dunedin, July 14

]S£m Rosetta Elmer, oue of the oldeat residents of Port Obalmerß. was found dead m h«r house yesterday, hiving been apparently seized with an apoplectic fit. 4 complete skeleton of a moa was discovered at Cromwell. There were brownish leathers on the back of the head.

Hokitika, Jnly 14. A large ewordfish was captured m the surf- last night. It measures thirteen feet and weighs about five hundred poands. Mr F. E. Clarke, naturalist, who makes a special study of fishes, say* the most interacting thing is that this specimen is Identical with the sword6ah of the .North Atlantic Ocean, hitherto unknown m these seas, the Bpeclmecs met on the coasts of these and neighboring colonies being an allied variety peculiar, with few exception!, to. the Southern hemisphere.