INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1621, 16 August 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The 8.8. Clansman while »n rouU to Tanranga on Friday night met with an accident to her boilers, and had to be towed in by the b.b. Douglas, On Saturday night two houses in Stafford Road, Auckland,, occupied by Messrs Holt and Neil, wore destroyed by fire.

Total loss £BOO. The properties were only partially insured in the Northern Company. Gold has been struck at Acre Creek, West Coast, half a mile south of the Prospectors’ claim, with payable prospects. It is worked by a tunnel. The wash dirt is two feet thick, and is improving. The yield is two grains to a dish. Thomas Jackson, a settler at Paeora, died suddenly yesterday morning. He leaves a wife and six children. The Mayor of Greymouth on Saturday said the Grey Harbor Board was one of the most corrupt bodies in the Colony. The body of O’Toole, missing from Mohikinui, West Coast, was found on the sea boach. He had been drowned in the river. On Sunday forenoon Thomas Herbert Biggs, a shoemaker at Parnell, Auckland, blow out his brains with a bulldog revolver, The deceased, who was aged 59 f ' years, had been depressed through brood- ; ’ iiig [ofer money matters, but was really we li to do. He had been a teetotaller for 16 years, and formerly served in the 68th regiment. A youth named Thomas Hargreaves was arrested at New. Plymouth for embezzlement from his employer, Chew Chong, also for larceny of various articles - of jewellery, etc., which were found in the possession of bis sweetheart, who alleges that the prisoner gave them to her as a present. Day, who was reported to have murdered his children at New Ply* mouth, proves to have only imagined he had done the deed. The Herald correspondent rode over to the man a residence, and found his wife and children all right and only frightened at his conduct, Ha is well to do in a small

way, hard working, but troubled with religious mania; in money matters, his wife says they ware never better off io their lives. He ban never before been harsh or unkind to his children. He has a new bouse end every comfort of a small farmer about him.