INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1606, 12 July 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the annual meeting of the Auck'ancl Institute, Mr R. H. Gulliver was elector] President. The Auckland branch now numbers 101 members. The Bishop of Auckland has appointed the Rev. Father Mahoney to be YicarGeneral of the See of Auckland.

The h'llf-yearly cession of the Grand Lodire of New Zealand of the Orange Institution was Leld on Saturday in the Protestant Hall, Newton, Auckland. The Rev. C. K Ward was elected Grand Maater vice t!.e Rev. T. G. Brooks, who has left for the south. The report ahowed the Order to be flourishing. A Political Committee was appoined to wntch educational matters during the general election. On Sunday the Orangemen marched in procession to the Choral Hall, headed by a Brass Bind, and were addressed by the Revs, Wurd and Daniels, At a meeting at Manaia on Saturday evening it wai decided to take a legal opinion as to the liability of the land in that locality to New Plymouth harbor rate, and if the opinion is favorable, it ww determined thai the rate be resisted. In the Supreme Court, Dunedin, the following prisoners convicted Inst w>eek ! have been sentenced : Robert McCair.n, j nged seventeen, indecent assault, 6 months ; Thomas Edwards, unlawfully ' wounding, 6 months; Dan el Barry and i John Hunter, robbery with violence 3 I years; John Atkinson, robbery witb . violence, 4 years.

A fatal -iccideot occurred on Friday nt Kawerna, Hokianga. A boat containing five persons capsized, and one, Alfred Jarvif, >vas drowned. A litt'e girl four years old, the daughter of William Hill, was drowned in the Kapanui stream, Manaia, ou Thursday night. At an inquest into Ihe circumstances of iho lecent fire at Lahmanu's Excelsior Wine Vaults, Wolliugtoo, the jury returned n \erdict that the premises were deliberately and maliciously set on fire, but there was no evidence to show by whom.

The amount subscribed in Wellington to the Imperial Institute will be sont Home by the Governor next mail. The sum is £350.

Reports received by the Native Department from the Weat Coast state that Te Whiti, in an indirect manner, is tryiiig to tnaks himself an annoyance to the Government.

The Wellington and Mantwatu Railway Compmy are now running a dining car attached to their trains. It was built in Wellington.

The Otago police have not yet been iib-'u to find Lindsay, the escaped lunatic. It is generally believed he is dead. One of the neitnen of the Tainui, who was caught by a Customs officer emugg'iug tabauco asboro, w<is finer! £4 19s and lis coals on Friday at Dunedin. Margaret Fishwick, wife of Joseph Fishwick, orpenter, was drowned in a drain at Mokitika on Thursday evening. The drain runs alongside of an uuformed streH on the terrace and is very deep. Deceased was observed to fill by a boy, who went for assistance, but befora the body was recovered life was extinct. Tiie body had drifted a chain down the drain.

On Saturday morning at Auckland a Chinaman named Ah Che was fined £5 for selling Chinese brandy without a license. At Wellington on . Saturday the remains of a Chinaman who died two years ago, were ffouud on the premises of a well-known undertaker, it appears that the deceased’s friends reside at Canton and wished the remains to be exhumed for exportation there. The work was undetraken by the firm in question. The grave was opened about a week ago, and the remains were placed in a zinc case, which was soldered so that no offensive odors could escape. The body was removed without the consent of the Colonial Secretary, but the undertakers state that the aexton was aware they had taken it. The case has been removed to the morgue, and proceedings will bo taken against the undei takers under the Cemeteries Act.

A man named William Harvey, a brewer, fell dead in .a brewery at Wellington on Saturday afternoon.