INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1552, 12 February 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the Auckland Police Oonrt yesterday the P.fiv.-Gideon Smates was fined £5 and costs for allowing a horse .belonging to him to bo worked while suffering from sores. The prosecution, was ;Vteade at the, instance of' the •Sofclety - ' the 'Prevention of Cruelty ;lo Animals. The.-revi 1 . defendant Jimde an appeal for mercy, arid had, when fhe : information was first laid, written a piteous letter to the Superintendent of police. . •. :r j..• . During the thunderstorm on Wednesij day night a house at .Suffolk street, off the. Newton road, Auckland, was struck, !by lightning. A fhole was made in the I roof, the. mantelpieos; was smashed, 1 the grate;thrbwn out on„ ithe;.floor. . For* innately no one was in the room atthe time. ■■■’. i "Thete is a painful feeling in Blenheim in consbijiieDce of the refusal of the churches.. (except. th,e O'itbblids, who' readily ,consented), to make collections bn Hospital Sunday. They allege that bb. members of their corporations are ftlready, rated - for charitable purposes, they ought, not to be asked ta . farther contribute. It is thought (hat the refusal will lead to a diminution of the reveoub the-ch'urches would acquire from outside sources through bazaars and subscription lifts.jH ;-i . Harvesting is practically over in the Marlborough district. ’ There were splendid crops of wheat and barley, throughout the district, there, being frequent instances of 60 to 55 bushels per acre. The late sown barley is not so good owing to the absence of rain. There are good crops of oats, of which a large quantity iS'being converted into chaff for export, to. Wellington and West Coast. The -chaff io’duatry is - ’ assuming large dhnen’sibhs iri Wairau!' ; 1 Fowls and ducks 'ut Bleuhoim have j suffered ' cousidehibiy lately from the depredations of ferrets, supposed to have come dqwp from a sheep station on, the adjoining.hills,' .where they were, turned out to.exterminate, the rabbits. A ferret was capfnretji yesjerday at the back of a shop in tiie centre of tfae tpwu. During j;ho passage of fhe William Philips, barque; from Dunedin to Auckland, a seam&u iiaiped ‘Fred. Barley was drowned, He w«b bn the jibboom, stowing the jib, and fell overboard, The steam laundry burned down at Auckland on Wednesday night was insured in the South British for £3OO. The siege of the Shamrock Hotel ,(Auckland), has been raised, Crquhart, llie lipepe j?eing adjudicated a bankrupt. He surrendered tp top, Official Assignee . on Wednesday morning, haying held, the hotel against twelve attempts, to capture It, since the previous Thursday night. Patrick Connolly, M.D., was arrested at ’Vysmgfimii on Wednesday, on a charge of attempted rape qn JJrs Pope, the wife of tfae mate of the' Stormbijrd. The Court was oecupied all Thprsday hearing the charge, and it was not concluded, At a meeting of the Central Board of Hbalth at Wellington on Wednesday, it was decided to remove the quarantine Which' Ind been enforced in !consequence of, tb.o puthr® l '!? of .sinallpox in Austral in. It will flat now jje necessary for the Union Company's steamers touch, ing ut Aur-traliao ports to curry surgeon’s or . for any passenger to undergo medical examination, ,•

NegotiaU >■ ’abb have been going ou for f|omn tabu Von'tho purohns o of Coit-fi.i defttl' ah rto baa been c;bi u’p .^u : by 1 thn Wpatpoii.CoarUompnny purchasing that. tiroperty. Bishop Harper, Anglican Primote of ffpw Zealand, on lm utficial visit to the West Coast portion; of his diocese, has confirmed 127 candidates at Kbkitnka. He proceeds to Groymbulb, in the diocese of'Nelson, in response to a worm jbyitattoo.' A public welcome, will be given to him. He afterwards goes ■to Nelson to cohs'ecrate the pro-Cathedral. Speaking at Ross to a public assemblage, the Bishop is reported by the local paper to have said, concerning thd education system “At the present they were enjoying all the blessings of a great State education, and although religious instructions was shut out from the'3ysl*m',aod however much that might be regretted, still, perhaps, the proper place for that was in the churches, ‘ the ; Sunday schools, and the homes.”

The Hiuemoa, with the_ Governor, suite, and party, loft Dunedin on Wednesday evening for the West Coast Sounds. V, ' ' .' , _ i The Otago Benevolent Committee, with a vibw to economising, have reduced the allowance of tobacco to the inmates of their institutions by one-lulf. The unemployed 1 agitation has again been started at Auckland. It is stated that a large number of men who are out of work are willing to go on to the land if proper facilities are offered. A mab named Isaac Duane was fined 20s and 'costs for causing the body of a child to be buried in the Presbyterian cemeteiy in Symonds stfeet, Auckland, afier the cemetery had been closed by the authorities.

The harbor dredge which has recently r beon built at New Plymouth was launched Fon’Thursday morning:, ' Mr Buckley left Wellington for the south on Thursday, and Sir Robert Stout yesterday. He wi’l be present at the laying of the foundation stone of the Sunnyside Asylum on the 19th inst., and l returns to Wellington the ’following day.' The Government have decided to call for tenders for a fireproof building for the Parliamentary Library. The Government have accepted a ten* der for the Waiiiti contract on, the 1 North Island trunk railway) which covers all the heavy work to Waitin' and the big tunnel. A contract has also been let for a further section of the Otago, Central line. The Mont D’Or (Hokitika), washed up in 14 days 220 ounces. A 50s per. share, dividend was declared. ' " ' '

: Michael O’Donoghue was brought up at Dunedin bn Thursday on a charge of perjury in a recent case in 'Which he sought to recover £35 from a hotelkeeper,; O’Donoghne alleged that the money was, stolen from him while be was in the hotel, and it is now, said to have been found on .the Caledonian Society’s ground .

A number of ladies have warmly taken op the: proposal to hold a ladies’ swimming tournament at Dunedin. ‘ 1