INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1711, 14 November 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Auckland, November 11

The late Me J. Bishop's body, brought to Auokland by the Marlposa, will be tt>ken to Wfnfca and Hall'a establishment, Shortlnnd street, and is to be Interred at Wftikomlti cemetery on Monday. Tlilx mornlne; Mr J Rae,' executor ot Bishop's will with Mr W J Napier, hfs solicitor, »nd other witnesses, foimally identifier he body. 1% was unde^atood that the r malm had been embalmed, and a large sum was set down m the expenses for the cost of that proceeding Putrefaction, however, has already considerably ad* vanoed, and the work of the identification therefore was not pleasant.

A civil action was heard at the Polio Court today against Chief Office? Stewart of the o.s. Walnnl, who was cued by John Clifford for alleged violent assault on board that vessel, Stewart, having, it 1b said, struck plaintiff uuder the impression that he was a Btowaway. Evidence for the defence set out that plaintiff sustained his injures by falling on deck whilst intoxicated. The oase was dismissed. The Anglican Synod has passed a reao. lution recommending the establishment of parish Kindergarten schools to provide for the education of children under seven years of age. Government will make a c»pltatlon grant of 30a to such eoho^la sb shall suit the requirements of the Government Inspector. Mall news brings intelligence of the death of Mr Benjamin Tanner, who w»b well known m commercial circles, and who died In London, having gone there to undergo an operation for hip disease. A man named T. B. Hill, one of Buffalo Bill's famous Jodian scouts, passed through Auckland by the Maripoaa. He Is on a visit to Australia. Hew Plymouth, November 18. The Taranakl "Herald's" Nornwnby torrespondent wires that Qain formerly of Invercarglll, ohot hlnißelf this afternoon. It 1b said that losses on In vet car gill property la the cause. He is not dead, bat cannot live, Wellington, November 13. The Hon J. J. Joboaton is Berloualy HI, and his oondlMon causes the greatest anxiety to his friends. The Awahuri Block litigation case still oocupies the Buprtme Courf, and will not finish for some dnye. Sir R Stout opened >be oase for the defence yesterday. A man named Joh>> Bennett, aged j twenty-nine, an Afrioan Seaman on board j the barque Cingalese, has be^n arrested on ! a charge of stabbing a shipmate, 41fred Giles. The ail or occurred at twr> this moraine and was (he resu't of a dis>im c. The o« Be is no' likely to r> *ult f«»»ily

Ounedin N yptpber 13.

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