INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1006, 29 July 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

AUCKLAND, July 22. A young Frenchwoman named Emily Duisire, who was lately arrested and discharged for stealing kauri gum, has died in the hospital. Her husband came to the hospital, and died also as her corpse was being removed for burial. An Auckland Fibre Manufacting Co. has been formed for making rope, twine, matting, and twine for string binders. The capital is L 25,000. The schooner Sovereign reports that the French have annexed Raitea, but the natives of Boadara and Huatawa declined the French proposals. A school teacher has died in the hospital from a cancer in the jaw, acquired by smoking. A two and a-half years old daughter of Air Keating, of Cox Creek, was drowned in a pool of water while playing. The schooner Mazeppa. from Rarotonga, reports that a French warship is expected daily at Rarotonga and the adjacent islands, to enter into a negotiation with native authorities as to annexing the Harvey or Cook’s Group. July 23. Dudley Gardiner has boon kicked by a horse while playing with it. His brain is protruding, and he is not expected to live. John Farrell,in a tit of delirium tremens, has attempted suicide by drowning. THAMES, July 22. The ca«e of the Collector of Customs against Ehrenfried, a charge permitting to be used false and fraudulent stamps, was dismissed, the Magistrate ruling that using stamps twice was not using them falsely and fraudulently under the Beer Duty Act. A Hog;, brewer, was fined L2O and costs for neglecting to cancel the stamp on a cask of beer. WELLINGTON, July 22. The amount of the fine inflicted on Whitelaw is being subscribed here. July 23. An illicit still has been discovered at Tarahiti, in the Wairarana district. The offender is a man named Fifz Vanschnlter, who has been convicted for a similar offence at Palmerston North. CHRISTCHURCH. July 22. Air Kinsey, of Messrs E (wards, Bennett, and Co., fell down the hatchway of the Merope and dislocated his ankle and one shoulder. He broke several ribs and cut his bead badly. Great complaints have been made about the non-running of trains on the Waipara extension, which has be. n finished tor one year. It is broadly hinted that trains are run when big landholders want them. TIMARU, July 22. At the Police Court this monvng Patrick Clancy was charged, on remand, with unlawfully wounding Tim M'Auliffe, the wellknown amateur pedestrian, with a penknife The evidence went to show that the prosecutor struck the first blow, and that Clancy drew his knife and used it in self-defence. Mr Bcetham said that he considered that M'Auliffe had brought the assault on himself, and sympathised to some extent with Clancy. Tosayhowfar Clancy was justified, however, in using his knife in self-defence must be for a jury to decide. Accused vva* committed for trial at the next sittings of the District Court, his own recognisance of LSO being accepted.

NASEBY, July 26. Considerable interest is felt on the goldfields in Mr Pyke’s Bill to reduce a miner's right to 10s. It is sincerely hoped that it will ho carried.