INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1064, 15 September 1882, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

A telegram from Mr White, M.H. R., has been received at Christchurch, stating that Sir J. Hail, Mr Wright, and himself, interviewed the Minister of Public Works, who promised that the route of the West Coast line, which Canterbury without exception prefers to the proposed extension of the Northern trunk line, shall be surveyed during the coming summer A boy, ten years old, was charged at Christchurch, on Monday with stabbing his elder brother in the thigh with a pocketknife. The hoy is of a thoroughly criminal disposition, aided no doubt by the neglect |of his parents, one of whom (he father) was in court and conducted himself so impudently as to draw down the wrath of the Rench The hoy a few months ago tried to poison another land by 'giving him lollies dosed with a preparation of lead. He was sent to tne Burnham school. With reference to the statement made by the capiain of the Wild Wave at Lyttn ton re a v ssel being on shore between Gatlin’s River and the Nuggets on Monday last, Captain Paterson, of the Annie Row, now at Tiraaru, states he passed the spot in company with the Wild Wave, and that the vessel noticed was a ke ch anchore i close to the beach. A baker named John Duncan, who accidentally set fire to himself about a week ago while in a state of intoxication, died at Timaru on the September 11. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.