INTEKPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1561, 29 March 1887, Page 3

INTEKPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A telegram from Hokitika yesterday stated there had been incessant rain since Saturday afternoon end night. All the river* are flooded, and in Hoki ika they are exceptionally high, the lover portion of the town being under water. Small boat* are able to got round iho P lit 'Office. No damage of any oonaequ nco is yet reported. Sir J. Yogel leave* Wellington for Christchurch about Wednesday next to deliver hia pre-seisional address to hie constituent*. At the Police Oouit, Wellington, yesterday Oharlo* Vining, on a charge of wife desertion at Waimate, was remanded to that place. Mrs Elizabeth Keith, living off Woodvillo street, Dunedin, died very suddenly on returning from a walk on Saturday, The Dunedin Iron and Woodware Company have forwarded the Mayor a donation of £IOO for distribution among the Fire Brigades which worked at the fire on their premises. An eight-year-old child of John Mace, of Oardrona, Otago, was burned to death while attempting to lift a kettle off the fire.

An Auckland telegram says the two yea ■ old colt Niagara hai been purohaaed by Mr Cooper, owner of Trenton, and will be shipped for Sydney to-day (Tuesday), The body of a man wai found in the surf at the mouth of the Buller river (West Coast) on Sunday. Id had evidently o«me down the atream. The body ii decompoied. There are woundi in the nook and oheek, bub whether caused before death or by snags in the river since death cannot at present be settled.