INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1590, 4 June 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

It is probable that Hearn, the-Welling-ton sculler, frid take .part in .the great rowing carnival te be held in Sydney.

. The Wallsead explosion inquiry still continues, the/evidence,being much the same as previously given. The evidence showed that the, examination of the safety lamps in the Wall send mine has been very lax. The inquiry is expected to last, several;days. An empty six : roomed bouse, the property of M.; McHugh, of Msndeville, near Chrbtelmrchu was burned down on Tuesday night. , The fire is supposed to have been accidentally, caused by swaggers. The building was insured do the Standard for £l5O. Mrs Rachael Murret died *<»t the Dunedin Hospital bn Thursday morning from burns received a fortnight ago. Mr Hack worth, on retiring from the Collectdrship of Customs at Dunedin, was presented with a gold chronometer from the mercantile community. At Gisbourne a - man named James Campbell walked‘ into‘Dr Pollen’s on Thursday morning complaining of n pain In his chest. While the doctor was writing a prescription the man fell down dead; Campbell was a steady ’and wellrespected man. By a letter from London, received by this English mail, it is gathered that the owners of the Blackball (West Coast) coal property, which was acquired some time ago by people in England,’ are making arrangements for commencing operations by first of’ all establishing communication! between Nelsoh Creek ’arid the Blackball coal outcrop by means of a railway bridge,’ The outcrop is 21 feet with an enormous face of coal uncovered. ■The recent vitriol-throwing case came before the Auckland Police Court bn Thursday, when Fatorsori was committed for trial.