INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1553, 15 February 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The schooner Mimunal at. Auok'and reports having seen a cm ter ashore of Little Barrier Island. The vessel, probably the Tawiki packet, F. Pollen, master, appeared to be sunk. She has been missing since the,middleof January, and is owned by Judge Wilson, of Taiiranga. John Urquhart applied at the Crown Lands Board, asking permission to work the sea beach at Whangarei for gold and silver. to recommend the application to Cox ..niuot. James R. Lott has been committed for trial at Auckland on a charge of passing counterfeit coin. The friends of Penn have applied to have his body after execution. The Minister of Justice replied that the disposal of the body would be at the discretion of the Sheriff, and that if the Slier ff was satisfied that the funeral would be qniet, and without demonstration, the Government would- not object to the body being given’ to* his friends for burial. Penn, on being interviewed by his mother said, “I know, mother, what my doom is, but I am innocent of murder.” ,• At the distribution of prizes at Napier in connection with the Rifle Association reference wa? made toi the smallness of the aggregate scores as compared with last-year, and this was ascribed to the use bf 1 Auckland ammunition. The men generally appealed very dissatisfied, and a hope was expressed,that other ■ Assooia lions would join Jin urging the Government to supply better ammunition. It was stated that some bullets fell at half way to the.target. The trouble/ up the Wanganui river between the Natives and the river improvement party'is | said to be simjly that the Natives had an idea that the reibovrl of-stones from the river, near the island of Monjda will cause the banks to fall in. Major Kemp will probably be asked to write a letter, to the Natives, and this is expected to put an end to the obstruction; as previous letters have done with similar oaseii ■ , At the Wanganui Rifle meeting,held on Thursday, very bad shooting was made. There were great complaints against Kynoch’s ammunition. A proclamation Appears in the Qaz ;tto further proroguing Parliament until March 6tb, but before that the Cabinet will probably fix' the date for calling members together for the despatch of business. Of the white fish ova for the Otago Acclimatisation Society, which arriveu by the Alameda, about 30 per cent, was on examination found- to he bad. At the ponds at Clinlon a for proportion haVe been hatched out, however, and are quite livhly. The charge against Dr Connolly for alleged criminal Assault on Mrs Pope was resumed at Wanganui on Friday morning. Mrs Pope* recalled and cross-examined as to a conversation, acknowledged to have been had • with a neighbor, :■ admitted having said that hor husband objected to her Seeing the doctor by herself, but denied that,she,bad said that if he knew she had the doctor would be arrested, or words to that effect. The evidence of Drs Earle and Tripe went to show that the condition of the woman was likely to conduce to hysteria. Two female witnesses for the defence were then called, after, which counsel addressed the Court on behalf of the accused, and the Bench, after hnlf-an-hour’s retirement, returned iuto Court, and said they had decided to dismiss case. At the Hutt Park Races on Saturday the Hunt Park Handicap was won by Little Scrub, the Hurdles by Kingask, the Local Handicap by Tornado, the W.R.C. Handicap by Tigredia, and the Consplar, tion by Princess Roy/ii. During the day : about £3300: were put through the tot-ilisator, the largest dividend, £l4 Ba, being on the Local Handicap. At a meeting of the Auckland Industrial Association, it was snggesied to emp'oy a paid ledmer to travel through the country distdcts in the .interests of, protection, and to introduce the subject to'tbe attention of,trades unions. The Minister of Justice has received the Great Barrier papers from the Governor, but refuses -to make, the murderers confessions or statements public until after the execution at least. Sir Win. Fiizherbert left Wellington yesterday by the Mamoa to catch the P. and 0. steamer at Melbourne. The. licensed victuallers’ of Baldutha, evidently expecting licensing nominations would lapse, took no action, the result being that the nomination of the temperance candidates were handed in at the hour of closing, and they were declared elected. ~ IMr J. 0. Brown, member for Tuapeka, leaves by the next S«n Francisco steamer, with a view to floating the whole of the Blue Spur claims into a syndicate. He is likely to be away a year, but ho will not resign bis seat. Richard Bushe, a miner at Waitahnna, Otago, was,found dead in a hut on F/iday afternoon. There is no suspicion of suicide. Mr Leary (Mayor of Dunedin) has convened a conference of Otago local bodies to consider, the desirability of Amending the Charitable Aid Act. There is some talk at Wanganui of a new trial In the Pope-Connolly case, though the grounds of the application are not made clear as yet. The Harbor Board at Westport has expended during 1886 (exelusiva of interest and eiqkingfumt), £57,789, and the west breakwater is extended 870 teet. Captain Widerstrura, of the schooner 1 Mary Wadeley, just arrived at Westport from Napier, reports that on the 9th lost, offOourangi Point, bearing five miles east, he saw a large number of waterspouts, and had to steer clear of them. At first they appeared like dots, and gradually increased in size. Clouds were revolving at a tremendous rate from right to left. The water could be seen continually ascending in brilliant stripes form ng a most lovely network in a great pillar. At the surface of the sea the waier was boiling and smoking, sending up white spray in all directions. The waterspouts disappeared at sunset.