INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1603, 5 July 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Bickerton'a Theatre Hotel, and McGrath’s billiard room, Woodville, wore totally destroyed by fire on Sunday morn* ing. Insurance about £3OOO.

The Tainui, Captain Barlow, from Plymouth via Capetown and Hobart, arrived off the Port Chalmers Head early on Monday morning. Invincible (Otago) crushing, 176 ounces retorted gold ; Phoenix 240 ounces.

A four months old child was smothered on Sunday at North Dunedin tbrongh overlaying.

A fire broke out on Sunday night in the shop of William Davie, fancy goods warehouseman, George Street, Dunedin, The shop was completely gutted, Paterson’s co-operative store, and Sing Sing’s tea shop, which were adjacent, were considerably damaged. Davie was insured in the Manchester office for £6OO, Peterson’s stock for £SOO in the Equitable, and Sing Sing’s in the Standard for £BOO, reinsured. The premises belonging to Hallenstein were insured for £SOO.

Mr William Thomson, of Green Island, contests Taieri, William Lindsay, formerly of Strath Taieri. attempted suicide by shooting himself in the neck on Friday. While being conveyed to the Dunedin hospital in a trap he Leith stream, and though search parties bare been out since bis whereabouts have not been discovered.

In the Wellington Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday mony*#' His Honor Mr Justice Richmond said that the manner in which the penal and penalty clauses of the present Bankruptcy Act bad been drafted showed not only carelessness, but want of brain power on the part of those concerned.

In the Waters bankruptcy case at the Wellington Supremo Court, on Friday, His Honor the judge said that be did not see his way to exercise his summary power to commit the bankrupt. He should undoubtedly have exercised it had Subsection 2 of Section 171 of the Act applied to the case ; but according to the English authgntiea quoted the section did not applj. . He, therefore, declared the bankruptcy closed and the examination finished.

Oa Friday last the debris of the fire at Blenheim was turned over, but no trace was found of the body of Dr Horne, who is supposed to hare been burned. At Resident Magistrate's Court on triday, before Mr R. Beotham, R.M., tie Head Master of the Lakeside School, was charged with committing an indecent assault on a girl ten years of age, one of his pupils, named Martha Winchester, on June the 15th last. Chief Detective Neil conducted the prosecution. A deal of evidence w as taken from the girl, and also from her sister, three years older, in support of the charge. The evidence, on cross-examination by Mr Russell, proved conflicting, and showed an animus against the master, owing to his being strict, The Bench declining to convict, the accused was discharged. At a meeting of the creditors of 6, Joachim at Dunedin on Friday, bankrupt explained that he filed on account of bfs liability as a shareholder in the British and New Zealand Mortgage Company. He bad paid £2400 in shares, and was liable for nearly £IO,OOO. His losses had been made on property, and included £3OOO in Lees street, £4OOO on Te Anau and £2IOO on the Mimiret runs, £IOOC on other property, and £I3OO on Westport Coal Company shares. Bankrupt was allowed his furniture. 4-t a meeting of the creditors of Thomas Bracken, a resolution was passed sympathisiag with him on the loss of his position on the Herald, and making n« claim on bis personal offsets,

At a meeting M Invercargill on Friday night h K form A;sociation whs estabbshe- with theft' 11 fing platform red"Mom- : .s-.lary and allowance, to be £6OOO. Reductions of payment of members i : Legislative Council. Minist rs salaries and allowances not to exceed £BOOO in all. Reduction of Civil Service by 25 per cent on gross cost, and that all Civil Servants be disfranchised. Reduction of Education Expenditure by 25 per cent. Entire stoppage of borrowing and railway construction. Reduction of taxation, abolition of exemption under Property Tax Act. Reform of laud laws, and railway management. A serious outbreak of measles has occurred at Parihaka. Several natives have died. Dr McCarrell, the hospital surgeon, has sent ont a supply of medicine. It is feared that the disease will spread amongst the Natives all over the district as the Parihaka meeting has just broken up and the Natives have returned to their own settlements probably carrying contagion with them. The Mayor of Auckland received a telegram on Saturday from Mr G. S. Cooper, stating that a passenger by the Port Victor, quarantined in Sydney, smallpox having broken out on board, had arrived in Auckland. The telegram stated that the passenger's name is Mackenzie, but Dr Lewis, the Health Officer, has been able to find only one man of that name who had recently arrived in Auckland from Sydney. This man states that he knows nothing of the Port Victor, having arrived in Sydney by i he ship Patriarch. At the Auckland Police Court on Saturday, H. H. Barnett was charged with stealing a manuscript receipt book of the value of £IOO, the property of Theodore A. B. Piesse, of the London firm of Please and Lubin, perfumery manufacturers. There has been a good deal of gossip during the last few days regarding this book, which, it is stated, has legally come into the possession of Bnroett. The case was adjourned until Friday. The Auckland Board of Education has offered no objection to the Bible in Schools Association taking a poll of parents on the question of the introduction of the Bible into the public schools, but rules that permission must be obtained from the School Committees of the district. The Gisborne libel esse, Brassey v. Poverty Bay Herald, was finished on Saturday night. The Judgment was for defendents with costs on the highest scale. The action was for £SOOO for accusing Mr Willoughby Brassey, solicitor, of improper conduct.