INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1550, 8 February 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

.. Owing to the rain the new reservoir at .JPopsonby (Auckland) hu again come to grief. The new wall, vhioh is being v built to curtail the size of the reservoir, started to move on Saturday morning, and the embankment is fisinred several feet deep. James Trenwitb, a carter in the empby of the Auckland limber Company, was shock, ingly injured on Saturday at 2 a.m. by being run over by a nightsoil cart in Dock street. . .He died at the Hospital on Sunday from the injuries received. Deceased said he had been the ! worse for drink and was sleeping on the roadway. Mr firyoe is making arrangements to speak at Waverley this week. ‘ - Captain Somerville, Chairman of the N.Z.B. Executive, leaves Wanganui on Thursday to superintend the arrangements ' for the meeting, which commences on the 28th, So far the accounts from Christchurch do not indicate any great interest being taken. Arthur Avery, aged eighteen, was drowned while bathing in the river at Spring Grove, Nelson, on Sunday. . . At an inquest at Christchurch yesterday morning on Hannah Lee, who died suddenly on Saturday night, a verdict of “death from excessive drinking ” was returned. The Coroner commented on the frequency of death iromi this cause, expressing a hope that the verdict would act as a warning to hard drinkers. . A' child named Arnot, living at the Pen* insula, Otago, was scalded to death by falling u Seven email boys the eldest being 13, were convicted in the Christchurch B.M. Court yesterday morning of stealing lead and sell* ingit to Chinamen. There were five previous conviction* against two of them, and two against another, and one each against two others. They were all committed to the Industrial School. • \