INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1593, 11 June 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

I TTid Wellington Volunteers bold a sham fight on Jubilee day. \ The Wellington Woollen Company intend to try New South Wales as a market for their tweeds, and are having light tweeds manufactured to suit the climate.

; The charges ugainat Joseph Martin and J. Mortens for stealing furniture at Wellington were withdrawn, the prosecutor offering no evidence. Charges of intimidation and assamt have been laid against eight young men engaged in the bool trade at Wellington. The affair arosfe out of the' recent strike. The-prosecutor, : an improver, has returned to work at the factory; where nonunion men are engaged, and on Wednesday mdrnirig ho was set 1 upon "by the accused, who assaulted him ; and. 'booted him, along the street.' A couple of days before .prosecutor was.aimiiariy treated,; Captain- Whyborn, an ex-shippiaater, recently come to the colony, and bis; wife, have been appointed master and ,matron of the,Old'Men’s Home' at Invercargill. Therei wdre; forty-two applicants. The salaries are £125 and £75, respectively, with free quarters, &cl Considerable dissatisfaction is expressed by the public and by the Contributory bodies with the amounts offered, as being too large.

In sinking a -jyell for the Invercargill water supply a large quantity of timber, was encountered! at a depth p£ 102 feet from the surface and 70 feet below- high wafer mark. ’ The' contractor has : behn greatly delayed'by a stratum of quicksand, an immense quantity of which' was taken out without making any progress in sinking the cylinder^. , Frederick Alexander Whitaker,. formerly Member, for Waipa, Auckland, committed suicide on Wednesday: evening about half- past five o’clock in the Auckland Club,; rile shot himself through, the head with a revolver,; in the Board. romp. He had been in a despondent state for several days. For abouta,, month. past; -he had resided ai good deal at the Auckland Club, and for nights previous to. his untimely end he slept at the,Club, Deceased ' leaves ’ behind him a widow (daughter'of Mr A-. Cox, laite of Waikato) and several children. The news of the suicide caused .a profound sensation. Jas. Campbell; a butcher, was charged at the Dunedin Police Court on Wednesday with having false -weights in his possession. He raised in ! extenuation of his bffence four points, of which ‘three cdftainly.haddhe charm of novelty. The first of the; four-was that he.-had 'bought the weights iu inpbcence of - their being’ light; tilip: aecond:.that he and his wife were so ; cut up at being suinmoned' that they hkd shut iip ahop and were going - to leave the country:; the third thatalthough he sold meat with the light weights several of his customers did not pay himj ■ while the last, and possibly the most original of the lot,- was that lie had a brother' who had bomb a good 'character > for Iwentyfive year. t AU'i were of hoavai', for the Magistrate decided-to inflict a .frhepVhich'' the defendant paid'with the remark that it was the last money he would ever 'pay to the court. .