INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1616, 9 August 1887, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the Auckland Police Court on Friday John Bell was committed for trial on a charge of setting fire to a house at Kellyer’a Creek, the property of Mrs Young. It appeared that Bell had borne illwill to Mrs Young, whe some time before had him bound over to keep tbe peace. The Wellington Meat Preserving Company and their manager have been served with a writ issued on behalf of Robert Yarrow, a late servant of the company, claiming £2OO for defamation of character. The case is to be heard in the Supreme Court on the 15th inst.

Mr Didsbury, the Government printer, denies the statement made by Dr Newman In his speech the other night, that the Colonial Secretary had sent down an order to “sack” thirty men from the printing office. Mr Didsbury says that he alone is responsible for the discharges, which have been made in the supernumerary stuff pending tba meeting of the next Parliament.

Charles Smith, alias Frank Master, was on Friday, at Wellington, sentenced to 13 months’ imprisonment for indecent exposure. The offence took place in January last. Six charges of forging and uttering cheques tor small amounts were brought before the Christchurch Police Court on Friday against a man named William Storey, who was oommltted for trial on each. He made a statement implicating Thomas Shield, but no proof was forthcoming and Shield was discharged. At Christchurch on Friday evening a middle-aged woman named Elizabeth Thornton threw herself into the Avon, near Cashel street. A young man nanled William McCormick pluckily sprang in and brought her oat. She was quite sober.

The body of a girl was seen in the Waimabiriri, near Sheffield, on Friday afternoon. The poor girl was seen at the south end of the bridge, then near the centre a few minutes before she was observed in the water. She is supposed to be the eldest daughter of a family named Larsen, resident about three miles from View Hill.

The charges of larcsnv against Annie Nolan, servant at Captain Rose’s, Weiiagton, we -e heard on Friday morning. It was ii ed that she bad admitted to the detective that the whole story of a burglar was an invention of her own. The ring missed she had tskeu, as she said, for the purpose of showing to her friends, with no intention of keeping it. Both charges of larceny were dismissed, but the Magistrate ordered a charge of malicious injury to property to bo laid and fined her £j or 28 days, to mark his sense of the gravity of the breach of trust the girl had displayed in interfering with her employer’s property. Some shocking revelations ware made at the Wellington R.M, Court on Saturday morning, when a family of three generations was charged with various offences, of either occupying disorderly houses or leading s life of vagrancy. It appeared that the grandfather, an old man of 79, owned a collection of wretched huts near Ghuznee street, known as the “ Rabbit Warren," and bis son, with four children, two of whom were described as among the lowest women in the town, lived in them. The hula are built of old kerosene tins and packing cases, and are about 4ft high and 6ft square, not being large enough for a man to stand up in. The father, who was once a respectable mao, was proved to have brought men to the place, and the Bench said it was a terrible thing to find a man so degraded as to live on the degradation of bis children. Imprisonment for terms of two and thr e months were inflicted in the case of Estall, hit daughters, and two other women. The grandfather was not dealt with, as he was seized with a tit, and the two younger children were remanded.;