INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1632, 10 September 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

For the Northern Maori District, Tai. whangs polled 785 votes, Kapene 484, Foihipi, 411, Wharetau 148, Pomare 88, Arapatu 26. The returns from forty.six stations for the Western Maori election showTe Wheoro 852, Taipua942, Ormsby 129, Eketore 124, Mete Kingi 83, There are still a number of returns to come in from up the Wanganui river and the Thames, which are expected to ha ia favor of Taipua. The returns lor the Southern district are not yet all in. A married woman named Amy Mereon was charged at the Dunedin Police Court yesterday with the larceny as a bailee of £SO and a ease at Lyttelton, the property of Official Assignee in Bankruptcy jjne estate of Thomas Merton an jj wae ' remanded to Lyttelton. ~‘ ae acc ’ use d was on the point of 'caving for Melbourne when arrested. At the inquest on the body of Geo. Milne, who was found with his throat out m a clearing off Durham road, New Plymouth on Thursday, the evidence as to the wound on the body showed it was 5m long by 2m or 3in wide and Uin deep, extending from the Ufo ear down to the collarbone on the left aide of the neck. The wound had the appearance of having been inflated by a sharp instrument. There was no blood on the neck. The hands were clenched, and ap neared as if they had been exposed to the weather for a long time. An open verdict wai returned.

Government have do information regarding the Samoan embroglio. Geo. Smith, for breaking and entering, was sentenced at the Auckland Supreme Court on Wednesday to twelve months' hard labor. Purua, a Native, was sentenced to nine months’ hard labor for assault. Geo. Martyn, for larceny of a gun, was acquitted. The New Zealand Stud Company (Auckland) have decided to lower their capital from £250,000 to £50,000 in £1 shares.

At a meeting of railway servants, held at Auckland on Wednesday, Mr J. JR, King was nominated as a member of the Railway Board of Appeal. Efforts are being made to secure funds for the erection at the Thames of an experimental plant for treating refractory ores. Money, however, is coming in but slowly. It is said that the smelting process prosecuted by this plan would effect considerable saving in the treatment of quartz.

Mr A. Porter, who is an expert in mining matters, has just returned to Auckland from a visit to the Hikutaia find. He is greatly impressed with its value, and says some of the stone showing in the face is fully »ne third bullion. The Seamen’s Union have secured offices in Auckland and on the wharf. Captains Daniels, Scott, and Crawford, formerly of the Northern Steamship Company, are appointed masters. The Premier, writing to the Financial Reform Association slates ho can give no information as to the estimated cost of harbor defences for the remainder of the present financial year.

It is the intention of the Cornmthinner of Police to make the Police Gazette the medium through which any important decisions in the Criminal Courts may be convoyed to the whole of the force.