INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 151, 28 June 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

WKCLrsroTON, Wedresday. There are thirteen cases for trial at the forthcoming criminal sessions. The Working Men's Club, spoken o£ for some time, has at length been started. Mr Joseph Bartlett, a steady respectable settler at Porirua, for some unknown reason, cut his threat from ear to ear. He had money in the bank. While firing ona Fairlio engine on the Hutt line to-day, Robfc. M'Lachlau sustained concussion of the brain by falling off the engine on to the track. He is suoposed to be fatally injured. Christchurch, Wednesday. It is just reported that a warder named Frederick White has been fatally stabbed by an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum. Particulars ; are not yet known. . It is also reported that a man has been killed on the railway. , Thursday. The stabbing case at the Lunatic Asylum is confirmed, and has caused a great sensation; here. The particulars are as follows:— After having dinner yesterday, Frederick White, one of the principal warders, proceeded to the kitchen. Mark Price, an inmate, soon aftar came and asked White for his keys. White said he had given them to another. Price immediately picked up a carving knife lying on the table, ahd stabbed White just below the heart. The force of the blow, was so great that the knife blade .entered White's body its full length. White died in about twenty ('minutes. Price, who has been an inmate of the Asylum for four years, was considered perfectly harmless, and allowed complete liberty, both in and about the Asylum. White has been warder for several years, and was highly respected by all who knew him. It is not known what Price's object was in asking for White's keys. There had beejn a quarrel between the two men previously. Another warder was in the kitchen when the sad event occurred, but had no opportunity of preventing it. The reported accident on the railway arose as follows — Yesterday morning Mr and Mrs Berry, el.Jerly people, were driving near the railway crossing at Templeton when the train came up and frightened the horse which bolted and upset the trap, and the occupants were thrown violently out. Mr Berry fell on his head and broke his neck. Mrs Berry sustained a severe fracture of the right arm. A somewhat singular fact is that Mr Berry's daughter is married to a son of White, who was stabbed in the Lunatic Asylum yesterday, so that each lost a parent on the same day and very nearly about the same time. The Board of Education has resolved to recommend the various School Committees to establish the system of Penny Savings' Banks in the schools. A man named John Fraser was found dead on the floor of his bedroom yesterday morning. He is supposed to have died in a fit. Ltttelton, Wednesday. Captain Davis, of the barque Stag, was fined £5 for flying the exemption flag, when entering the port, not having a certificate of exemption from pilotage. Dunedin, Wednesday. A Joint Stock Company is being formed in Dunedin under the auspices of Messrs John Bathgate, Reynolds, J. P. Maitland, Captain Fraser, and 26 others. It is ostensibly a Building Society, bufc the articles of 1 association provide for lending money upon personal property and personal security guaranteed by approved co-obligants. A child 14 days old was found in the porch of St. Joseph's Church. The police are endeavoring to discover who left it there. Auckland, Wednesday. A deputation of licensed victuallers waited on the Hon. Dr. Pollen, requesting that the license fees in the Auckland district he equalised with those of other parts of the colony. Dr. Pollen said the alteration must be made by the Legislature. During the approaching session an amended bill would be introduced, but he was not able to say whether the fees would be raised to the Auckland standard or equalised on the scale existing in the South. The report presented to the Waste Lands Board states that out of a total of 35,000 acres, only 3000 were classed first quality. 30 000 second class, the remainder third class, lhe Board decided merely to sell rights to dig gnni. mu tt -n, ™. Timaru, Thursday. The Hon. E. W. Stafford has written to say he will mee: his constituents next week He has been invited to attend the festivities on the loth July, in connection with the openmg of the new Town Hall. There is to be a public ball and banquet. The new railway tariff creates dissatisfaction.