INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1624, 23 August 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Mrs Elliott, wife of the Rev. J. U. Elliot, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Wellington, died on Thursday. She had been lingering a considerable time. The Midland Railway Company are pushing on the work in the vicinity of Brunnerton as fast as possible. Fifty men are h(Hasting the line between die Tyneside Mine and the Junction. The stationmaster's house at Richardson is nearly completed. The engine-house, station, and goods sheds have been started, and are expected to be out of hand in a few weeks. Owing to the scare caused by the late Greymouth flood, people are steadily removing to the higher part of the town. Within a short distance, in Tainui street, no fewer than twenty-two private residences are now in course of erection, and there are many more being erected all over that portion of the town known as the Terrrce. Sir Julius Vogel has received the following telegram from Captain Fairchild, dated Kennadecs', August 36th : I send you tliis from Sunday Island, by the steamer Richmond. We found the Richmond here cutting firewood, as she was out of coal. We gave her what coal we could spare. We were not able to land at Curtis Island, We are now at work at Sunday Island, and hope to land on the small islands when the weather moderates, Curtis Island is just like White Island—it is an active volcano. We lay at anchor under it ail night. Think wo may bo expected back about 27th or 281 b,” A sad fatality occurred at Mongonui Bluff, Hokianga. Two Maori children, brothers, aged five and six years, were left alone in a whard while the parents were in the bush. The clothes of the younger caught fire accidentally, and those of the elder also ignited while trying to save the younger brother. The elder brother jumped into a creek and extinguished his burning clothing, and then ran back to assist his younger brother, but only arrived in time to see him burnt to death. The survivor was badly burned through his heroic efforts to save his brother.’ At the R.M. Court, Wellington, on Friday, no evidence was offered in the case against W. R. Waters, and accused was discharged, Mr Edwards, the counsel for the prosecutor, «■ ho withdrew the charge, made some caustic remarks while doiii" so. He said in such charges as obscene language and stealing litt’e pieces of timber and other tr fling cases it would be noticed that the police did their duty. Ho did not say these , fhcers had failed in their duty in this ease, or suggest that Mr Justice Richmond had not done Ids in not direc'ing a prosecution to ba undertaken, or dial the CflMd Assignee had similarly far ed, but, it was a public misfortune that gm:Vl (ff-nces should be punished with fdl the rigor of iho law, whde great offences should remain unpunished. The Government should publish a ‘‘Guide for Crim ; > air,,” to show that it w-.s quite safe to rob great sums by breaches of trust, while, on the other hand, it would be better to keep their hands off little pieces of limbi r and to nfn in from using obscene langm-ge in the s’reef. After brief remarks on the case, the magistrate said—- “ I have now to di-charge accused on this V formation, but it is right and proper that I should sav that this is only a discharge so far as the information '>f Cattail is concerned. Tim fact that the police have not up to the present taken any i.clion has been refeired to by Mr Edwards. This discharge will not debar them from taking action if they think the interests of justice require it.” A deputation from the Auckland Trades and Labour Council waited upon Mr ToF with reference to the recent reduction of the Matamata railway stationmaster to the rank of porter and bridgokeeper at Ngaruawhia. It was pointed out that the case was another instance of several where railway servants considered that limy had been unfairly treated, and the time bad arrived when a Board of Appeal for railway servants, similar to the boards in Canterbury and Otago, should be appointed. Mr Tole promised to consider I he matt it. Messrs Graves and Flenrng, clothiers, Wellington, publish an apology to jhe W ellington Woollen Company for hiving sold tweed representing it to be of local manufacture, and explain that the sals took place place under a misapprehension. The first volume of the work entitled “Ancient Hi«torv of the Maori,” written by Mr John White, has just been issued trom the Government; Pinning Office, it pnrporls to be authorised by a iormet Government, and to give the traditions and legends of the Maori race, which it does in such a manner that one of the Wellington papers in reviewing the work ir led to remark “T'--. presence of what polite society calls • broad language’ may to some extent be excusable in such a history in order to convey to the reader the ideas of the people treated of, but the presence of whole pages containing indecent allusions is assuredly without excuse, and certainly renders the volume before us unsuitable for general perusal.” It is stated that Government on learning the objectionable nature of the letter press, suppressed the pub'ication ; at any rate till it shall have been expurgated. The China Navigation Company’s steamship Whampoa let'Foochow on the I6th ins', for A uckland direct, with the following cargo : Auckland, 225 tons; Wellington,' 9JO tons; Dunedin, 750 tons ; Lyttelton, 550 tons. Morgan Daly, a member of the permanent force at Fort Cautley, was drowned in the Auckland harbor on Wednesday morning, He was a young mao, and on. I»te leave, which expired at midnight. It is believed that h« fell as eep on Green street wharf, and rolled into the water. Writs have been issued against the past and present members of the Lake (Otago) County Council for the recovery of £I2OO illegally paid from the county funds, as shown by a special «u»tit by Mr Bitkin. Two of the members who w re in office at the time have since died. At a meeting of the Otago Education Board, it was resolved to represent to the Government that the Board s funds for school buildings were exhausted, and, ‘as more was mgently needed, they be requested to grant authority to incur a 1 moderate expenditure on buildings. r