INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1560, 26 March 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

An extraordinary is to'case come before Judge Broad at Queenstown, Otago. One Smith, a solicitorjvsues Fischer, Secretary to the Hospital Trustees, for damages for neglecting to put his application for the Secretaryship before the Board.

Captain Grey, of the Stella, wires that he found the stores and house at the Biounty Islands washed away and everything smashed up except one case. The mischief had apparently been done some time. He took what ho was able to recover higher up to a safer position. Everything was all right at the Antipodes Islands.

The djes pow in use for striking off the postage stamps are nearly worn .out, and Sir Julius Vogel intends to get new ones made in the colony if possible. At the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Wednesday, u Maori named Wm. Conray, on a charge of perjury, was discharged ; the indictment being quashed. The following diforce case was called and dealt with t George, Broadfoofc, petitioner, v. Elizabeth Broadfoat, respondent, and Wm. Atwell, co-respondent. Mr Mahoney made an application that the rule ni»i be made absolute. The motion was granted, with costs.

At the Rosa United Company's annual meeting at Hokitika on Thursday, the chairman moved a resolution, which was carried, that £15,000 to £20,000 be raised by preferential shares in order to clean out the casing of the old shaft and work from that point.

(_f|Matthews, the retired dumpm h x r, has issued a chnllenge in the Auckland Observer to fight privately in Auckland with bare knuckles, or four or six-ounce gloves in any part of New Zealand, under the Marquis cf Queenabury rules, or ho will fight publicly with gloves, for any stake. The German Club at Auckland celebrated the ninetieth birthday of the Kaiser William by a dinner. The German Consul, Mr Herman Brown, presided, A congratulatory cable message was sent to the Emperor. The Kastern Extension, Australasian and China Telegraph Company has given to the Imperial Conference delegates the privilege of sending and receiving social telegrams during their stay in England. The alleged charge of obtaining money by false pretences against James O'Shea was called on at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Wednesday, and, after brief evidence being ta’ten, was further postponed till Saturday, The Government decline to relax the regulations . under the Diseased Cattle Act, 1881, so as to enable the proprietors of Fryer’s Circus to exhibit their performing dogs without quarantining them for six months. Some stir has been caused in insurance circles in Wellington by the actions of one company in refusing to recognise the settlement of certain claims as agreed to by the other Companies, and declining to pay over to them the proportion re-insured in its office.

The young man Johnston, lost when shooting at Kokatahi, West Coast, has not been found, but as his footprints have been traced to a dangerous ford in the river, it is supposed that the man has been drowned.

The body of Thomas Rogers, aged II years, sun of a laborer at Dallingtoc, near Christchurch, was found drowned in Dudley Creek, Bingsland, on Wednesday morning. He was missed the previous night.

Thomas Lewis, a gunsmith, a very old resident at St. Albans, whs found drowned in the river Avon, Christchurch, ot Wednesday morning. He wag missed on Tuesday night, and is supposed to, have wa ! ked into the river while drunk. News from Tahiti slates that a Chilian man-of-war is expected there shortly, which will proceed to Auckland and Australia.

Herman Groth and Charles Morgan were committed for trial at Christchurch, on Thursday, on a charge cf breaking into Ballin’s wine and spirit store and stealing liquor and cigars therefrom. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association at Christchurch on Thursday night Mr John Deans was elected President, and Mr John Fergusson Vice-President. Resolutions were carried recommending the Government to remove the restrictions on the importation of sheep and cattle.