INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1625, 25 August 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A man named W. Henderson dropped deed at Miller’s Ford, Hedgehope, South laai, yesterday. Yesterday T, H. Brcott, reiidont of the mining township of Orepuki, Southland, fell over the face of a olaiui»_ breaking two ribs and sustaining fatal icjuriee. On Tuesday night a man named Doro fell off the train from Invercargill to Lnmsden, Southland, When picked up he was foui.d to be badly out about the head and otherwise serioudy injured. A barn, stables, etc., on Jas. Walter’s farm at Papakawia (Auckland) were burned down on Saturday night. The fire was caused by hot ashes or spontaneous combustion. . . A large and well-defined reef has been discovered at Tawhere, in the Waikato district. The stone is highly charged with minerals, and experts say it will be found to contain silver and possibly gold. A box of the atone has been sent to the Bank of New Zealand for analysis. John McLeod, one of the crew of the steamer Rotoraahana, fell down the hold of the vessel in Port Lyttelton on Tuesday afternoon, and sustained serious injuries to his bead and the upper part of his body. Medical assistance was quickly rendered, but the unfortunate man succumbed shortly afterwards. The attempt to raise a loan for the construction of a second dock by the Port Chalmers Dock Trust not - having been successful, the chairman, at Tuesday’s meeting, stated that nothing remained now but to close with the offer of £9O for the debentures received from London. A man named Raines Martin died at Dunedin on Tuesday from the kick by a boras, which he was attempting to catch at Green Island. A mao named Thomas Barrett, at Arrowtown, Otago, died from the effects of drink. He appears to have lain down while intoxicated, and then apparently attempted te take another drink, which choked him. The Maori Hill Borough Council, nea» Dunedin, were mulcted in £ls and £'■ 13s costs, for damages to a horse, through a culvert giving way. The Magistrate said a Borough Council were only liable if they knew, or bad means of knowing and ought to know. In this case be thought the Borough Council had means of knowing.

The Marlborough branch of the Educational Institute met on Saturday, and condemned the imputations passed by Bishop Nerille upon the morality of girls attending the State schools.