INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1619, 11 August 1887, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Baring » cab accident in Queen Street, Auckland, on the night of April 28th last, Mrs Anion, a passenger from Sydney by the Botomahaua, lost £250 worth of jewellery The matter was reported to the police next day, and the result is that George Ohine was arrested on Monday on a charge of stealing the jewellery. A domestic servant named Caroline Windsor, aged 18, in the employ of Mr Northoroft, E.A. at Hamilton, Auckland, dropped dead on Monday. Up to the time of the occurrence ehe had been in apparent good health. According! to the doctors she. died, from hemorrhage caused by apoplexy. At Wellington. a r fisherman named Ambrose, who received ih juries through a horse bolting a few days ago, died on Thursday night. At the Christchurch Police Court on Monday, before Messrs R. Westerns, J, V. Boss, and J. 8. Ruddenklau, J.P.’s, Charles Thomas Harris ahd ? Thomas E. Potter were charged with the larceny of goods of the value of £45 Is 6d, the property of the Drapery Imparting Company, on or about June, 1887. John Wilson and David Marks were charged with receiving the same, with the exception of some silesia, knowing the goods to have been stolen. Harris and Potter had been! storeman and. assistant storeman at, the Drapery Importing Company’s stores. They were arrested on suspicion last week, and Harris made a confession implicating the others. Potter afterwards corroborated the statement. The case lasted all day, and the accused were'Committed for trial.

At the inquest at the Lyttelton Hotel oh the body of the girl Violet Kelso, who. died shortly after being found on the floor of her room with a newly-born dead child beiide her, the doctor deposed that death had resulted from puerperal convulsions. The child had been still-born. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned, The girl was engaged as cook in the hotel) and had been there seven weeks.

At the inquest of the body of the boy GKeeson, who was drowned on Sunday at Mount Eden, Auckland, it was elicited that the child was dumb, and was subjected to severe strokes of St. Vitus' dance. A verdict of “ accidentally drowned ” was returned. By the Manapouri, which left Auckland for Sydney on Tuesday night, there were amongst the passengers three persons who have got to give evidence in the ease of Boorson for alleged murder, which is expected to open on Monday next at the Sydney Police Court.

A little girl named Agnes Lseston, who has been adopted by a Mrs Vincent, at Hamilton, Auckland, was found roaming about the country there a few days ago with a dogchain fastened by a padlock round her waist. She called at the houses of several settlers pleading for food, She states that she was fastened up to a tree, but managed .to escape. The police have the matter in hand. The Native Minister has given instructions to increase the constabulary post atOpunake to fifty men. 'William Henry Gilbank was committed' for.trial at Christchurch on Tuesday afternoon, on another charge of receiving goods, stolen from the D. 1.0. by Thomas Harris and j Thomas E. Potter. Harris received three months’ hard labor for stealing this lot. The i charge against Potter was withdrawn, and he gave evidence against the others,' The .Mayor and Mr A. H. Boss, at members of the Dock Trust, waited on Sir Julius Vogel on Tuesday with a view of making him acquainted with the facts in connection with the floating of the loan for another dock. He said that the Trust had acted in a most extraordinary manner, ,as three sets of debentures for one loan' had been signed, one set at 4 per cent, another at 5 per cent, and another at? 6 per cent, The proceedings were frightfully irregular; and be promised to consult the Crown Solicitor on the natter.