INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1599, 25 June 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The'budy-bf the man drowned in Auckland hHrbOiVbas been iderjtifjedjjiißjfcuat of Fergus MoLeary, laborer, of'Te AVsmutu. i Some Unie back £sl was collected by Mr Lee, of the Otaki (Wellington) school, and Mr Wilson, member for Foxton, for to provide penny dinners for poor cliiTdrieu attend'ng ibe schools in London;f^Ther^Mayor received by the lest mail V'corohiiimciition from the Lord Mayor of-London,-appreciating the kindly action of the school children in New Zealand. '•' '■'<• ' ■ :

The bngantine Oceola is still ashore afWrstport.' It 'has been, decided to discharge her cargo of coal, add ~i;bs p t wjflers J wi'l abandon the vessel. A constable at Port Chalmers named iPorter waß found drowned in the bay on Thursday, he having evident'y fallen off the wtaf whjle going his rounds, fle disappeared, on Tuesday morning. On Jubilee robbery was perpetrr led on the. premises of Mr Levin-1 ! sohn,: tobacconist, Auckland, £3B were stolen. ~:.::'

At New Plymouth on Wednesday a youth named was sentenced at th 3 District Court to' nix prisonment and fifteen lashes for a criminal assault on a litt e git l ). A man named Jno. Williams went ioto the bedrooxi of a settler named T. Hurley at the Union Boarding-house, Masterton, Tay'nrdriijht, and was stabbed by the latter in the groin. ;Bw'ey was brought before the E.M. and remanded for a week. It is said (hat Hurley thought Williams wns going to rob bim.

A man named Thomas Thomson appeared in the Wellington;; ;06.\irt on Thursday morning on five" charges of biirglary and house-breaking at the Hutt. Considerate sums of money and jewel'ery have been lost by lesidents there. Thompson wns remanded for a week. He has been wanted for the hat four years for various offences alleged to have been committed at Halcombe and Auckland.

The Under-Secretary of the Colony has again writfen to the Land Boards asking them, with a view to economy, to hold'meetinjga/lless frequently. ; i; A" young lad named Charles 'Ernest Towsey was killed 'at Dunedin on Wednesday by the dischargo,of a erot»ll. rifle, with which he had intended to go out rabbit shooting. He appears to have put away the rifle loaded, and taking down bis clothes it is supposed it fell and exploded, the bullet entering his right eye. He.was a High School pupil, and, his father re'sides in Melbourne.