INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1630, 6 September 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Shares in the claims adjoining the Prospectors' Mine, Auckland, the scene of the recent find at Hikutnia, were offering at £lO in Auckland on Friday. The Auckland Art Gallery will shortly he opened with about fifty pictures. Probably Sir Geo. Groy will bo asked [or-

nially to open the gallery, At the Auckland City Council meeting on Thursday night there were numerous applications for remissions of rates, principally made by widows. Mr Goldie urged the necessity for inquiry into the cases, and quoted one case reported to the Charitable Aid Board, in which a widow receiving rations for four months had bought a house tor £l7O, and had paid half the money. She earned good wages at washing, and her sons were all working, A telegram from Hokitika on Friday says " Nor'-westerly gales, accompanied with heavy rains, have prevailed during the past two days. The river is swollen and traffic is delayed. There is much snow on the hills, and it is expected there will be heavy floods." A domestic servant named Minnie Searle, eighteen years of age, was arrested at Wellington on Friday afternoon, charged with stealing a lady's silver watch and hair gunrd, the property of her employer, Mr F. W, Spunthorpe. On Friday morning accused reported that the catch of a window had been knocked back, and the bottom sash raised. There were also spots of candle grease on the window-sill. On seareh being mado it was discovered that the watch and guard were missing, The police were communicated witb r and Detective Chrystall on arrival accused the girl of being the !biof, after making a search of the room, where the guard was found under her pillow. She admitted the offence. An eight-roomed house at Highcliffe, Otago, was burned down on Friday. It was insured in tho Norwich Union for £3OO. At Auckland the insurance companies have come to a general understanding to rebuild in cases of losses on buildings .destroyed by fire wherever it can be conveniently done, and this course has been already pursued in some cases. A Lee magazine rifle, said to be Ibe first of the kind received in the colony, has come to the order of Mr Whitney, of the Auckland cartridge factory. It will be sent to Wellington for trial. An eight-roomed house, belonging to

Mrs Dowden, at Ponsonby, was burned ' down on Sunday morning. The family had only just removed into a new house adjoining, The house was insured for £4OO in the Colonial office, and the furniture for £l7O in the Koyal. At Tauranga gome natives took possession of a farm leased by a settler named Collett, and also of the stock and implements. The grounds for the action taken are that the contract is incomplete. Captain Tall, for many years Harbourmaster at Riverton, and who recently came out as a candidate for the Wallace electorate,died on Saturday morning from the effect of a cold caught while prosecating his canvass up country.

On Friday night the wife of George Kinley, cattle dealer, Bangiora, committed suicide. She was missed between six and seven in the evening, and was searched for, but without result. At seven on Saturday morning she was found suspended by the neck with her apron to au apple tree in a garden, three quarters of a mile from the house. Life was extinct, and as her feet were on the ground, death must have resulted from strangulation. At the inquest a verdict was returned that deceased took her own life while in a state of temporary insanity. Both her feet touched the ground, and she might easily have saved herself. She had been upset by a letter about some trifling family affair a few days previously, but this had passed, and there was nothing in her behaviour to indicate any aberration of mind.