INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1616, 4 August 1887, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A respeotably-dreßßed youth, aged nineteen, named Wm. Dunbar Birrel, whoie name appear in the Police Gazette as being " wanted," went to the Napier polfoo station on Sunday and confessed to having embezzled the sum of £640 from tho Commercial Banking Company of Molong, N.B.W. Whan he was arrested he had not a cent on him, he having got through the whole amount in twelve months.

Charles A.'tkin, formerly ledgor-keepet ol the Bank of New Zealand, Auckland, was on Monday committed for trial on a ctiargo oE uttering i forged cheque for £65. The dead body found in the Auokland harbor on Safcarday has been identified as that of Jae. Tindall, clerk and aooountant. The Auokland Booing Club held their annual meeting on Monday. The balancesheet Bhowed! profite of £2350, again&t£42Co last year. Mr W. S. Pulford, a well known resident of Auckland, was found dead in a paddock off the Ponuonby road on Monday night by two boys. The cause of death is unknown, but is supposed to be apoplexy. Deceased was conneotad with tho Press in. New Zealand and Victoria for many years. Sir William Fitzherbert is expected to return to England in time for the opening of Parliament. The Aore Creek rueb, West Coast, is still looking well. One or two shafts bottomed on duffer ground, but the tunnels being driven have met with payable gold. Good prcspeets were met with in outting on the track made by the County and Borough Councils on the Hokitika boundary to oonnect the Shallow rush with the town. A tunnel is being driven following the lead into the terraoe. At Opunake on Monday Te Whetu and Tamahaka were fined £lO and costs or two months hard labor, and Te Aro, To Bona, and Heko, charged with assaulting the polios at Parihaka on the same day, were fined £2O and oosts or three months' hard labor. The Maoris will be brought into New Plymouth to serve their sentences. The Grammar School Governors (Auckland), have decided to appoint a teaoher of Science for the free nigb.t-Bob.ool recently established by the Board of Education. Two jockeys named Jaa. Cleary and Frank Green were arrested at Bllerslie (Auckland) on Tuesday night, charged with putting a truok on the railway line at Ellerslie on the 20th inst. to obstruct an engine, and with wilfully breaking a door, tbe property of jas. Campbell, of the llleralie Hotel. A serious accident was narrowly averted, as the engine driver was just in time to pull up the train, having observed the obstruction on the line. A meeting was held at Auokland on Tuesday night by Mr J. Aitken Connoll, for the purpose of forming a Young Colonial Demo, oratic Association. Addresses were delivered by Sir Georgo Grey and Mr Connell. Tha attendance was small.