INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1627, 30 August 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Friday, a woman named May Miller was committed for trial on a charge of larceny of £lO from a laboring man. The sum of £337 has be s n collected by ladies at Dunedin for the Jubilee Convalescent Fund. The twenty-four hours’ walking match between Capt. Cotton, of Christchurch, and Joe Scott, which was to have started at Dunedin on Friday night, collapsed. A large number of persons were present at the hour of starting, when Scott’s trainer made an announcement that Capt. Cotton’s trainer had informed him that if Capt. Cotton was not allowed to win, he would be ill when the time of starting arrived. A doctor’s certificate was read to those present ; it staled that Capt. Cotton was suffering from severe indisposition, and it would be injudicious for him to attempt to walk any distance. Scott walked for an hour, and those present left grumbling. The doctor’s certificate is genuine enough, but the offer of the trainer seems to be inexplicable. Ou Saturday Cotton wired to a Christchurch friend, “Statement utterly unfounded. Have been very seedy for forty>eight hours. Had every intention of walking, but the doctor prohibited at the last minute, giving certificate.” Cotton expresses himself willing to walk Scott this week. The schooner Marmion has been wrecked near Whangarei with a cargo of timber. She was owned by the Auckland Timber Company, and was insured for £260 in the South British, The regnlationa for the Parcels Post system were issued on Saturday, but it is not settled when the system shall come into operaiion. The ship Blair Drummond, which arrived at Wellington from London on Friday, brings a million and «-half Snider cartridges for the Defence Department, and a quantity of ordnance ammunition, The South Star Hotel, Blenheim, was burned on Saturday morning, at 1.30, and a lodger named David Henderson lost his life. The landlord, who slept downstairs, discovered the fire, but was unable to get upstairs to alarm the lodgers, and there were some very narrow escapes, as there were no fire-escapes provided, and the bsdclothea had to be utilised. Mr Winter, -the editor of (he Marlborough Times, jumped from an upstairs window, and sustained a compound fracture of the leg* and was much singed »nd bruised. The insurances on the building, furniture, and stock, amounted to £BOO. According to a return furnished by Sir Robert Stout to the Political Finance Reform Association, Auckland, the total coat of the harbor defences of the colony, including amounts paid for land, etc., erection of all buildings and forts, with the expense of preparing site# and making roads, etc., is £155,243. The sums paid for guns, ammunition, electric lights, and torpedo boats is £153,589, up to the 31st Match, 1887, inclusive. The expenditure incurred since that date is £13,665, and £71,124 respectively. The ketch Eecmni* is supposed to have been wrecked nearKaipara on Wednesday last. The Recaraia was a ketch of 69 tons, owned by Mr Wni. Lees, of Lyttelton, David Ironsides, the fireman who was killed Bear Hawera last week, had last concluded arrangements for insuring his life in the Government Association for £2OO, and though no premium payment had been made the policy will be paid. The divorce case Luces v. Lucas and Radd, co respondent, was heard at Blenheim on Saturday, The petitioner is a storekeeper at Blenheim, and the co-respondent, who is a married man with seven children, is a butcher in Blenheim. After discovering their intimaby the wife separated frem her husband and went to live in Nelson with her mother. No opposition was made to the petition by the respondent or co-respondent. The case was adjourned till Monday for production of another witness. At the half yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Southern Cross' Petroleum Company at Cbsistchurch on Saturday, it was shown that ithe total expenditure to date had been £28,839 13i 7d, and that the assets were worth £7598 3s. The Chairman reported a good show of oil in the pipes, and a sample of the oil shown to the meeting was considered very encouraging. A young man named George Howard Shepherd, described as an insurance agent, was arrested ,at Wellington on Friday afternoon oh a charge of alleged larceny of jewellery, etc., valued at £ll 2a, the property of George Wyatt.