INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1060, 11 August 1882, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

The New Zealand Electric Light Company have decided that the capital of £100,0 : >0 shall consist of 20,000 shares of £.") each, instead of £IO.OOO at £lO each. A man named, McKinnon, a miner at the German Gully, Westport, was accidentally killed on August 4 through a piece of timber falling upon him. In a charge of card playing against W. 11. Corbett of the Royal Geo ge Hotel, Newmarket, the magistrate, Mr. Barstow, decided that euchre, was not an unlawful game, and the case was dism seed.

At a meeting of the creditors of Chatwin, the levanter, a dividend of o-. in the C was declared, owing to the creditors finishing ins building contracts. The Ashburton Racing Club has decided to hold the Spring Meeting on November 22nd and 24th, the agricultural show falling between the two days racing. The added money will amount to £ISOO.

The Sheriff of Auckland has telegraphed to the Minister of Justice denying that there was any bungling in connection with Winiata’s execution. He states that unconsciousness immediately followed the drop, which was night feet, and the apparent stifled breathing of Winiata was merely the escape of ail from his chest. The rope, he says, was properly adjussed round the convicts neck, but worked under the chi-' through it becoming stiff through the rain which fell during the morning. The statement is denied that it wai ten minutes be foie death ensued, or that ‘iifforiiigs "ne prolonged. In eonclns'o", he denies that the hangman tugged at the n im.-ing man’s legs, and says that ho was simple adjusting the condemned man’s garments, which had become disarranged.

j Winiati’s captor, P.arlow, was paid £6OO on the 7th August ; namely, .iTiOl) from the colonial authorities, and f 100 reward i Pored by the late Provincial Government,