INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1572, 23 April 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

An inquest was held at Dunedin on Wednesday on the body of Emily Palmer, a prisoner under sentence for vagrancy. It appears she was suffering from delirium tremens, and died from syncope. A civil case in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, on Wednesday disclosed a bad case of overdriving a horse. Purchell, the defendant, hired a mare from the plaintiff, Delamain, a livery stable keeper, to go to Dunsandel, 26 miles from Christchurch. He brought tier back in such a state that she dropped dead batf-an-hour afterwards. Delamain sued him for £25, and got judgment. A sheep-dip trial on a large scale; under the auspices of the' Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association took place at Spreydon on Tuesday and Wednesday. The brands competing were Merton and White's, Zealandia, Hatch's, McDougal’s, Little’s, Thomas’, Brooke’s, and Cooper’s, eight in all. 26tsbeep, nearly free from vermin, were' dipped in in each mixture. A further trial with dirty sheep will be held as soon as they can be obtained. The sheep dipped are to be paddocked together with 60 undipped sheep, and examined by a Committee at intervals until shearing, and the effect of the dipping noted. After shearing, the wool will be scoured and dyed. The Committee will then report.

Thetis are fresh troubles at the Auckland Asylum. Some attempts have .been made at changes against the Doctor of alleged neglect of a patient. Two attendants have been dismissed. The Visiting Justices consider the charges not established. The Kaiapoi Woollen Company have declared an interim dividend of 8 per cent. At Palmerston North, on Thursday, James Ryan was fined £lO or two months’ in gaol for being drunk while in posses* sion of firearms. The man bad a loaded revolver and carried *large knife in bis belt. The Wellington Evening Post has received 458 expressions' of opinion as to the best method of commemorating by some local memorial the Jubilee of the Queen. 259 were in favor of a home for the aged and needy, 166 for a free public library and art gallery. Twelve other methods received less than nine votes each. On Wednesday evening the wife of Mr William Brown, manager of Marks station, Dunsandel, while driving, was thrown out of the trap, and received internal injuries of which she died on Thursday night. , At the R.M. Court, Christchurch, on Thursday, H. Keane, licensee of the Scotch Stores, *aa fined £2O for supplying a drunken man with liquor. The Otago Charitable Aid Board has decided that it cannot see its way to provide an additional building for a lying-in ward, as the expenditure of the Benevolent Trustees was £3OO over the estimate for the mouth; The matter was referred to a committee to ascertain the cause,

The Otago Rugby Football Union has decided to take steps at once towards sending a team round the colony this season'. . At a meeting of the Invercargill Borough Council on Thursday night Councillor Bastiaa struck Councillor McDonald in the face in consequence of a remark made by the latter. It is expected that the affair will end in the Police Court. . Colonel Brett will move the Address-in Reply in the Legislative Council, aind Mr F. H. Fraser, member for Te Aro, in the House of Representatives; , Robert Corse committed suicide at Dobson Town, Greymouth, on Wednesday by drowning himself in the river. He was of unsettled mind owing to inability to get. work or provide for his wife and four children. Seeing so little food in the house he committed the act. There are an unusually large number ot stack fires in the district around Blenheim at the present season, besides cottages in the conn try being burnt down. Several offices decided to decline stock risks in Marlborough for the future. Eight thousand sheep on the Hon. J. C. Buckland’a run, 218, at Strath-Taieri, were deatrainedjon for arrears of rent, and sold at la lOd per head. The sale was protested against on the ground of alleged illegality. . Mrs A, G, Price, wife of the clerk of the South Dunedin Council, was on W ednesday publicly presented by the Mayor with a gold, Maltese cross, the gift of a number of ladies in Wellington as a token of their admiration of her conduct in saving the life of a lady in the . St. Clair baths.

Mr E. S. Haj, a well-known Dunedin solicitor, committed suicide on Wednesday afternoon by cutting his throat. The suicide appears to have been of the most determined character. Mr Hay was living with his sister, who left him in the house. On returning she found that he had taken a basin, and then hacked away at his throat with a blunt knife, the basin being full of blood. He appears then to have gone to a bathroom, where the bath was found with blood and water mixed. His sister at once procured medical aid, and though when the doctor arrived Hay was pulseless, ho tore away at the wound with his nails. He died shortly afterwards. He was a single man, and had been indulging rather freely. It is supposed he committed the act while suffering under some strong delusion.