INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1568, 22 March 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the Domain sports at Auckland on Thursday, when the competition of throwing the cannon ball wan on, the crowd closed in and a boy named Michael Flynn* was struck on the head and rendered unconscious, fie was taken to the Hospital. A young man named Wm. Avers took " Rough on ratß" in a brothel at Auckland. He died on Saturday. It is said that those who were with him tit the time he took the poison did not procure medical assistance +ill three hours had elapsed.

The members of the Permanent Artillery, who have been receiving instructions in big gun drill at Wellington, are to be distributed among southern batteries shortly.

A shipment of rock oysters from Auckland were seized at Wellington on Friday as the clobo season is not ended, and the consignees will be proceeded against. Lieutenant-colonel Tosswill, of the first Canterbury battalion, has resigned. The cause is said to be disagreement with the Officer Commanding the district. John Morris Willcock was committed for trial at ChrUtcburch on Friday for forging & cheque on the Bank of New Zea'and for £146. He is an educated man, said to be well-connected, but brought down by drink. The Wellington sheep district is declared dean, and the Onehunga district and the County of Wairarapa North to be infected.

The Mont D'Or Goldmining Company, West Coast, washed up 256nz of gold, ▼aluod at £IOOO, and a dividend-of la was declared. The mine continues looking well.

A young man nanied Samuel Johnston left his home at Kokntahi, West Coast, on Wednesday mowing for a day's shooting, and has not been se»n or heard of since. It is feared that he has met with a fatal accident.

Bishop Neville (Dunedin) is about to try the experiment of utilising a stream wliich runs thiough bis property, to supply motive power for electrically lighting his residence, and to drive chnff-cutting and other machinery. The Ofcago Protection League recently decided to ask Mr Mills, the candidate for Poit Chalmers, how far he was prepared to go to protect local industries. A reply was received on Friday night from Mr Mills stating that he was a freetrader. He recognised thht the in<lus'ties of u new country required encouragement at their initiation, but this could be best afforded by bonuses. He considered the preset tanff already afforded a very fair amount of prote<..-tioo. The Natives who have assembled at Parihnka have been feasting during the past few days. No speechifying has taken place. Te Whili is keeping himself in seclusion. Some native land has been fenced in with wire fencing and some portions set apart for families. The body of Robert Kettle, a well-to-do master baker, was found in the water at Sawyer's Creek, Greymouth, on Saturday afternoon. He had been missed since last Tuesday night, when he went info the bakehouse. It appears, for some little time before the fatal act, he experienced a feeling of mental irritation or nervous depression. He was not worried by pecuniary or domestic causes. He must h»ve walked from his house to the creek, his footprints on the bank and soft grouud being still visible. He was a staunch teetotaller, and had been for 15 years. Captain McDonald, of the Ponsonby (Auckland) Kifles, intends, if he finds legal grounds for action, to proceed for illegal arrest. A member of the legal , profession has given an opinion that the arrest of an officer of the Ponsonby Rifles was illegal on the ground that Lieut.Colonel Mahon's command never constituted a lepal battalion, there being only five companies,

At the parade of the Devonport Naval Artillery (Auckland), Col. Lyon gave his decision in the case of Petty Officer Spiuley, against whom charges of insuburd'natiou had been preferred by Capt. Fentoti. Cdl. Lyon said that owing to the surrounding circurmttinces he would take no further action. A disorderly lEwt'ng of the company took pbice afterwards on financial matters, One officer denounced the Secretary as a " thing," and threatened (o wring his neoL A iphd named Geo. Claik Gibscm, was found dead in a yard in Napier Street, Auckland, his face being imbedded in stable manure. He died in a fit.