INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1621, 16 August 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

W. B. Cross has been committed for t r ial for the embezzlement of the funds of, the Gi<*borue Ho?d Board, of which he was Cleik. The, amount unaccounted for is nearly £IOO,

Rose Pawson, charged with having unlawfully interred a child in her back 1 yard at Wellington, was lined £4 with costs. The Magistrate remarked that in the. interest of public health and morality it was necessary to punish oases of this kind with severity. The Dunedin City Corporation have secured a windfall from the'sinking fund, the judge having decided that they arO entitled to a refund from the Commissioners of £10,224. This will make a substantial reduction in the overdraft. At Dunedin on Tuesday, a deputation from master printers waited, on Sir Julius Vogel to point out, to him the injustice done by allowing printed stationery, etc., to be admitted free, pointing out that if they imported envelopes they had to pay duty, but If Banks or other bodies imported them with t- line of print on them they were admitted, free. Sir Julius Vogel asked the deputation to supply him with a list of materials to which this applied. The Government steamer Stella has left Bussell, bound for the Kermadec Islands, which are to be formally annexed to New Zealand. The Stella has on board Mr S. Percy Smith, Assistant Surveyor-General,' and Mr P. Cheesemnn, who are to make a survey of the islands. Sir Julius Vogel denies the truth of the rumor that he has been offered the position of bead of the Government Insurance Department, or that the Controller-General has been asked to resign in his favor. He states that when Mr Allen came out in opposition to Sir R. Stout, he offered to place his resignation in the Premier’s hands but the latter declined it.

Major Te Wheoro is mentioned as a probable candidate for a .seat in the,House. The Otago football team selected for the northern tour played a match with Southland on Saturday, winning it by three tries and one potted goal to nothing.

The Waitaki branch of the Educational Institute on Saturday passed resolutions affirming that Bishop Neville’s statements re the morality of the public schools was unwarranted, and protesting against a further reduction in teachers’ salaries until all salaries under the Boards are reduced.

A man named Isaac Day was arrested at New Plymouth on Friday on suspicion of having murdered his son at Norfolk Road. He came into New. Plymouth by the 11 a.ra. train aud'.gav® himself up to the police, saying that he had thrown his boy Francie (who is abont five years of age) over the fence and broken his neck. He was brought before the RiM. and remanded till Monday on a charge of murder on bis own confession. When the evening train arrived il was found that the story was a myth, the prisoner’s children being all quite well. The doctors have examined him and pronounced him insane. It is stated his malady is owing to distressed circumstances.

At the inquest on the body of the boy Gray, drowned at Waiwera, Otago, the mother-stated that the boy slipped off her back into the stream. She sat down on the bank and made no effort to recover it. She then went along the line and told her husband. The body was found in 18in of wat'T, arid the jury added to their verdict a rider that the mother’s conduct was most reprehensible, almost amounting to criminality.

The Onehunga Woollen Mills are now in operation. A young rano named James Balfour has been commitied for trial at Auckland for’forging a cheque for £2. He had also signed a cheque for £2BO in his own name, alleging that he had that amount to In's credit in the Timarii branch of the National Bank, and he wished to draw the sum in Auck'und. The bank officers took the precaution to hold over the order, and communicated with the branch.

It is reported that the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company have definitely concluded arrangements with Mr W. L. Rees for his proceeding to England to tike advantage of the p-esent movement in the British Islands in the direction of an extensive Imperial scheme of colonisation, and'to direct, if possible, a stream of settlement to the land of the Company on the East Coast.

Kails of snow are reported from Wellington, Napier, Peilding, and Blenheim.