INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1633, 13 September 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The girl Minnie Seario, who was arrested recently for larceny from her employer at Wellington, was on Wednesday placed on probation for six months, it ’ being understood she would proceed to Napier, where her married sister would taka care of her. A deputation of three Knmara miners waited on the Greyniouth County Counci l and invoked their co-operation and assistance in enabling them to fight their ease against Passmore’s application for an injunction to restrain them sending the tailings into the Teremakau. They strongly condemned the Land Board for selling the land on the river bank, and the Government for allowing it to be sold, when it was known twenty years ago that miners had no other plac* for their tailings. One delegate said Passmore’sacion was only the beginning of (he (rouble, and if they bought him off, ihen most of (he others would present similar claims, and if Passmore was successful it meant stopping all mining in the Kumara district. The Council wM take a legal opinion as to whether they can grant any pecuniary assistance, but in the meantime will send a Commitiee to attend the conference of local bodies on the matter. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, on Wednesday, Alice O’Neill appeared on remand charged with committing « breach of the peace on Monday. The police now stated that both Mrs O’Neill and her daughter, whose age was considerably over fourteen years, had been in the habit of visiting Wagschall for improper purposes, and that Wagschall had from time to lime given the daughter money. In the witness box Wagschall admitted the truthfulness of (his, and confessed that he had for some time been improperly intimate with the accused and her daughter. Mrs O’Neill was very excited, and declared herself unable to question the witness. Mr Beetham said that the case assumed a very different aspect to what had appeared at the first blush. He took Mrs O’Neill’s silence as proof of truthfulness of what had been staled. The whole story was beastly in the extreme. The accused was ordered to find one surety of £2O to keep the peace for three months. A Soldiers’ and Volunteers’ Land Claim Association has been formed at Hamilton, Auckland. Its object is to obtain recognition by Government of outstanding claims to Inud by soldiers and volunteers. If is intended to bring the matter before Parliament next session.

A dwelling house and bakery, occupied by Mr Thomas Harrison, at Otalci, Wellington, was totally destroyed by fire at 5 o’clock on Thursday morning. The inmatosnarrowlyeßcnped with their lives,and saving nothing. The building was owned by Mr Alexander Small, and was insured. Mr Harrison’s effects were uninsured. In connection with the action against miners by holders of riparian rights on the West Coast, it has transpired that the old County of Westland, 18 years ago, made all the principal rivers main roads. It is thought that this settles ibe question of riparian rights. John Stewart, a lampman on the railway, was affixing a lamp to an engine at Christchurch railway station on Thursday night, when the engine was set in motion and his right foot was caught in the cowcatcher and severely crushed. The injured man’s sister was at the theatre, and a sensation was caused there by two policemen and a railway employee calling her «nt from,the dress circle. At the Dunedin Police Court on Thursday, Michael C*rey, who distinguished himself by smashing several valuable windows, was committed for trial, and fined in several amounts for assaulting the, police ; with the alternative of mprisonment. The Mayor of Wellington has reported to the Council that by using water power now running to waste, the City can be lighted at a saving of £IOOO per annum. At present less money ie spent in lighting in-Wellington than in any of the Drge towns, and the lighting is very imperfect. The subject has been referred to a. special cornmit'ee. The White Hart Hotel at Richmond, Nelson, was completely destroyed by fi r e on Friday night. The house was insured in the National for an amount not known, and the furniture and stock for £6OO in the Standard. The Kaitangata Coal and Railway company (Otago) l ave declared a dividend of 5 per cent, with a bonus of 15a per share. The boiling-down establishment and slaughter yards at Waiwakaiho, near New Plymouth, owned by Mr S. Baihy, were burned oa Saturday night. Tin fire originated near the vat, and is supposed to have commenced from the boiler. The damage is estimated at £SOO. It is stated that the premises were insured, but neither the office nor the amount has transpired. The bu ling-down machinery is only slightly damaged. Friday night was the wildest experienced sine* the settlement of the pains at Manaia. During the whole night hail and rain fell, the noise being deafening.

In view of the recent fires at thantres all the theatres in Wellington have been examined by the city surveyor, who reports that the exit" are sufficient, but the gangways will become blocked, and there is apparently no means #f stopping it. The Cty Cornell intend to enquire into the matter. Charles Robinson an.t Voir Mollier have baec presented with bronze raeda's for saving lives of children who had fallen off the railway wharf at Wellington. Luke and S >ns, foundrymen, Wellington, have served the corporation with a writ for £27,000 as compensation for loss of foreshore rights. At the inquest on Walker, the eelfstarver, at Wellington, the evidence showed that d alh resulted from cancer in the stomach. Pain caused him to refuse food. The medical evidence showed that death must have rcaulted in a short time in any case. An action of considerabV importance to Volunteers lias be<n tiken »t Giahorne under the Defence Act. A Volunteer was fined £8 for absence at parades, and was arrested on the order of the officer in charge, the tenn of imprisonment being eight days for £2 penalties. The Volunteer was arrested, but subsequently paid the fines. Two young men engaged at Kitchen and ‘Son’* soap works at Newton, Wellington, were b»dly scalded about the legs on Thurs day night through accidentally stepping into a small vat containing boiling water. A mix tpre of lime and oil was applied, and it is expected that the sufferers will be about in month's time,

At Auckland Mrs Bishop, widow of Mr Bishop, who was assassinated at ’Frisco, has filed a statement of defence contesting the right of Mr Rae, «settlor, to get probate of Bishop’s will. The grounds of defence are denial of the death of Bishop and an allegation that the will was made through undue influence. As the death of Bishop has been denied, the body will be brought over from San Francisco by the next mail steamer, so as to remove any doubt on this point. The police authorities in Auckland are evidently satisfied many of the fires of recent occurrence h«vo been, the result of incendiarism, and it is said that with the object if possible of discovering the firo raisers, detectives have been on duty in the city during the night. In the R.M. Court, Dunedin, on Friday, the Magistrate gave judgment for £lB against the owner of a private siding, being the value of ope of the train horses, which had to be killed through injuries sustained by collision with a truck whl-h was crossing the tram line. The Magistrate decided that the owner of the siding was liable because be knew of the danger of allowing work to be performed by two horses without a brakesman. Mr U. Gc'diw, one of the candidates for Auckland West, received on Friday morning a large brown p*per parcel with the following inscription scrawled upon itDavid Goldie, Orange pup beware,” On opening it he found that it contained a human skull of ghastly whiteness, and attached to it a pair of thigh bones. The relics have pnrticles of sandy soil on them, and it seemed that they had been disinterred for the purpose. The parcel was left on the verandah of Mr Goldie’s house, and it is not known by whom. The paltry device is regarded by many as a joke and by others as a veiled throat. What might have been a fatal accident happened on Thursday afternoon ac the building in course of erection for the Australian Mutual Provident Society, in Princess street, Dunedin. Some of the scaffo'dmg gave way at the top of the building on which some of the men were working. One of those, George Watkins, fall in such a manner that half of his body was left projecting out of a top window. He was rescued from hie perilous position, and on Dr. Teevan being called in, his removal to the hospital was ordered. The doctor gave bis opinion that some ribs were broken, but could not make an examination. Another man named Robt. Kay, was badly cut about the face. Both men are married and have large f»mili*H. It is seated that, owing to the commercial depression whicu prevails, at Auckland, a combined movement is on foot among the city shopkeepers to obtain s substantial reduction of rents and altered terms of agreements.