INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1622, 18 August 1887, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A telegram from Auckland says a fishing boat was found on Sunday upset at the north side of Chamberlain Island, all hands missing. One of the men is named Waylin ; the other is unknown. Mr Edward Barber, a Wellington butcher has instructed his London agents to arrange for a retail shop in London for the disposal of New Zealand frozen meat and dairy produce. The Wellington Woollen Company are proceeding against a tradesman for £2O damages, for selling an inferior tweed and alleging it to be manufactured by the Woollen Company. R. Dickison sued the Mornington (Dunedin) Tram Company for £ls damages caused by smoke and steam from tho engine damaging his house, but the Magistrate decided that negligence had not been proved, the chimney stack being a proper one. Information has reached the Auckland police authorities that on Monday last a whare at Whatepu, Manukau Heads, occupied by two Natives, an old man and woman, took fire, and the inmates were so severely burnt that they died shortly after

being rescued. On Tuesday morning a fire took place in the fancy goods shop of Mr T. G, Jones, in Queen street, Auckland. The stock destroyed was insured for £SOO in the Colonial office. A seven-roomed house at Mount Roskill road, Auckland, owned and occupied by Mr Woorall, a farmer, was burned down on Monday night. It was insured for £3OO, and the furniture for £l3O, both in the New Zealand office. The recent heavy rains have caused a couple of slip? from the cliffs overhanging the business places in Willis street, Wellington, It is estimated that in two slips over 700 tons of rock and clay fell, but the damage is comparatively trifling. The weather has not yet cleared. Frederick George Siburn, barman at the. Royal Hotel, shot himself on Monday night. He was found on Tuesday morning lying in his room with a revolver in his hand and a bullet wound in his head. At the inquest, a verdict was returned of “suicide while temporarily insane.” He left letters addressed to the licenses and manager of the hotel stating that he intended to kill himself on account of a love affair with two women. It appears that two years ago he received'a severe * D j ur y to his head in Wel'icgton, through the balance-weight of a lift falling on him, and that bo attempted suicide some time ago. Mr James Speight, the well-known Dunedin brewer, died on Tuesday. Messrs Keast and McCarthy s Brewery has been ?old to Messrs Fergie and Mark Moss, of Melbourne.