INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1608, 16 July 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A bulchery at Palmerston belonging to Mr David Graham was burned down on Thursday, and Mrs Graham, 'the proprietor's wife, was badly burned. The premises were insured for £IOO is the Standard office.

Mr H. Bunny, Masterton, has received the fol'owiog report respecting the cattle disease from Inspector Orball: — "Re Russell's cattle in Lower Valley, the complaint is not the foot and mouth disease. Twenty-one pure-bred cattle having been put into a paddock at elarge quantities of ergot. That produced gangrene in tho lower limbs. There is no cause for alarm. Report to follow." In the banco Court, Wellington, Mr C. P. Skipper, solicitor, of Masterton, was fined £SO and costs for practising his profession without a certificate. It is reported that the Golden United, Murray Creek, West Goist, hatbeen sold for £IO,OOO. It is said that an extraordinarily rich patch lias been struck in tho Swiss R n public Mine at C-da Uretk.

•-A large swordfish was captured in the surf atf Hokitika: on Wednesday Bight. It measures thirteen feet and weigliß about fivehundred pounds. . At a meeting of the -Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, it was intimated that a poor rate, would probably hare to be struck.

"' The manager of the Globs, at Beefton, has reported having washed stone out of a winze with a lot of specimens in it. It is splendid stone. The winzo is feet.- • ' .<■•.<-.

At the Supreme .Court, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the triil of Beauchamp Thorne, for fire to a; house in South Duoedin, for''the', purpose, of defrauding the Union Insurance Uompsny by obtaining insurance money on the furniture, was. when the prisoner was found guilty, and on Thursday he was sentenced to seven yearn'penal servitude. .).'■'■ >.■' " .' ! ' ;* ."[[} y •. : .:■'■