INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1614, 30 July 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Three candidates have announced themselves for the Thames seat, viz., Wm. Fraser, Jas. McGowan, and las. Suaten.

A grand fancy drees ball was held at Napier on Thursday night in aid of the shipwreck fund and proved a great success.

Sir Robert Stout left Auckland at noon yesterday, per Wairarapa, for Wellington. He addresses a meeting at Napier on Saturday.' The police; have received information that James Goodwin, a butcher living near Midhurst, Ta r anaki, has committed suicide. No particulars ara to hand. Mr J. Ivess, having been presented with a petition bearing 305 signatures, has decided to contest the Napier seat with Mr Ormond. He delivers his first address on Wednesday, or Thursday text. At the R.M. Court, Christchurch, yesterday morning, Mr Justice Johnston gave judgment for the plaintiff m the action Fryer y. Aynsley and others, thus declaring Fryer entitled to sit at the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Board of Directors. Mr Harper for defendant, obtained leave to appeal. The case arose out of proceedings at last annual masting, when the late J. L. Coster was elected director. He had not paid a previous call, and Mr Fryer, who was defeated, claimed to have been duly elected, and that votes given for Coster were thrown away. The mail conch running between Palmerston and Woodville met with a narrow escape on Thursday. Just as the coach was entering the gorge the hind wheel became detached and the coach all but toppled over into’the river. Had the accident occurred three hundred yards higher up nothing could have saved both coach and passengers from being precipitated into the Manawatu. After a delay of twenty minutes the coach was righted. At Dunedin yesterday, a bankrupt named Thorn, in the course of examination before the assignee, stated that on the Bth June he cashed a cheque for £67 at the Co'otiial Bank, receiving £SO in notes and the rest in gold and silver. He bought a cash book and placed the notes in it, afterwards putting his book in his pocket. On reaching home he found that he bad lost the money, and at once advertned, offering a reward, and communicated with the police, but be had heard nothing of it since. He said he might h ive been robbed of the money, but there was a hole in his pocket and h* thought that was the cause of his loss. The following telegram has been received at Wellington from inspector McGovern re the Maori fanatics: “They are now quieting down and beginning to realise thdir position, and are coming to the conc'naion that the prophetess is only a fraud. The fiiendly Natives want to bail out the old chief Hoihia and his wife. Mr Bishop has consented providing the bail is substantial. If bailed out his daughter Aina R iro is to come here and take charge of him. Two of the fanatics (men) are still at the camp at Waihou but have sent a message that if I go up they will go with me quietly- I don’t intend to both r further yfifclx them. The wounded are doing splendidly.’’