INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1585, 21 May 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Mr Forwond, solicitor, charged with embezzling £B4O, the property of a Maori chiefs baa been arrested in Melbourne on a warrant, and remanded till the 23rd inst. About 1000 replies have been received to a circular issued to the Wellington ratepayers with a view of ascertaining their opinions as to whether funds for maintaining the charitable-;dd •xpenditure of the city should be nised by special rate or by voluntary contributions. So far a bare majority of the voters are favorable to the 'atter course, and a considerable number of these have signified their willingness to contribute to the fund sums in excess of the amount for which thf»y would be liable under a rate. Iti Hie Court of Appeal, Wellington, the case Sperrey v. Church of England property trustees is proceeding. The c»se involves the question of (he liability of churches to psy the property tax on their properties. A man numed Thos. Way put out from Oamaru in a fishing boat on Tuesday, and failing to make the harbor at night has not been seen siuce. It is supposed that the bout has been capsized and the man drowned. One of the oars has been picked upon the beach near town. The night was squally.

An Order-in-Council notifies that during the sessiou members of both Houses of Parliament may send delayed telegrams on public matters at the following rates: --First 25 words or fracton of a word, 6d ; every additional four or fraction, one penny. On Tuesday morning the body of John McDonald, a patient in the Ohristchurcb Hospital, was found in the river. Ho is supposed to have committed suicide. He i was seen liulf-au-hour before by th« attendant, and then seemed all right. A ferret attocked a child at Outram, Ot.Hgo, but was killed before serious injury was done. The explanation of the shocking occurrence on the Bluff line, when the engine drivor hacked off the leg of a steer entangled in the cowcatcher while the animal was alive is, that the rule of the service forbids railway servants to kill animals which have been maimed by collission with railway train.}. Another of the beasts lay till the following day in a (mutilated condition before it was dispatched. A Duuedin publican has been fined £lO for supplying a man with liquor on Snn- | day. The mm, who was well-known to ! the person who supplied the liquor to be a near resident, said he was a " traveller." He was fined ss. .An agitation has beeu commenced at New Plymouth to get the Government to take over the harbor works there. The balance-sheet of the Canterbury Jockey Club show the receipts during the year to have been £13,237 5s B'l, nod the expenditure £14,281 2< 2d. £1043 Is 4d was spent on permanent improvement. The ironfounders of the colcy are ugitating for more protection. The Dunediu fruit importers are protesting against the proposed duty on fruit. The Protection League at Dunedin approve generally of the duties ou the articles grown or manufactured in the colony, bntsupgeat that several articles require classification and differential valu'i.«. The League regard it as impolitic to impose duties oo articles which cannot be made or produced in the coloii}',