INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1597, 21 June 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Mr J6h’ri 'Sherman, commission agent, Wellington’, died! suddenly on ' Thursday higbt, it is supposed of heart disease. lie was retiring to bed when be fell dead. On Tuesday, at Wellington, Joseph Martin pleaded guilty to stealing furniture from his employer, Alexander Farmer, and the Resident Magistrate ordered him to be placed under probation for six months. A Wellington butcher in commemoration of the Queen’s Jubilee, on Saturday gave joint* of meat to deserving poor people.,, . At the Wellington Resident Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, H. J. Rodgers, on'a charge of being concerned in a racing consultation,, was.’fined , £SO or,'“three mdnthsVi&prto&meiifc * 'Magistrate said the defendant had connected himself with a rascally fraud. At a mebtlqg.of the committee of the Macandrew memoriarfund,‘it was decided that £l5O of the £650 in hand should be devoted to erecting a tablet to Mr Macandrew's memory, and the balance be devoted to scholarships in the Otago University, in which political economy would be the best subject. Intelligence has been received at Dunedin that Mr W. S. Marsh, who for the past few years has been acting Governor at Hong Kong lias been knighted. Sir W. H. Marsh is at present 5 in Dunedin, where he intends residing for the future, A young man named McCunn was charged at Lawrence on Friday with assault with intent on a child 6 years of age, and was remanded. At a preliminary meeting at Auckland, it was decided to form a political organisation to be: called “The Bible in Schools Association,” the object of which shall be to secure the daily reading, without comment, of a portion of Scripture in public schools. ■ The Premier arrives at Dunedin on Wednesday, and addresses a public meet* ing on Saturday. Owing to the action of two Timaru was decided on Saturday to wind up the Christchurch Meat and Produce Freezing Company. The Company has been four years in existence and has not started, operations. The Chairman of Directors stated that 10s per share was paid up, and about 7a per share would bd returned.