INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1634, 15 September 1887, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The report of the Mercury Bay Timber Company showed a Ins* on the half-year’s transactions of £312513*. Mr Robert Garrett, one of the firm of Garrett Bros,, Auckland, the well-known boot merchants, died on Monday. A young man named R. S. Wilson was charged on Monday at the Auckland Police Court with forging a cheque for £7 on the Bank of New South Wales and remanded. Prisoner is reepectibly connected and is a B.A. of Cambridge. A son of Mr Asrauss at Alexandra, Auckland, had a narrow escape from death. He was riding after cattle, when the horse fell backwards into an old wall. The lad succeeded in getting out of the well uninjured, cutting footholea up the side as steps. The horse was killed. A private letter from Taupo slates that Tongariro mountain shows unwonted signs of activity. For ten days past there have been frequent shocks and unearthly rumblings, and the Natives have been frightened from the setfernent near by. A find of rich stone is reported from Moungatautiri, beyond Cambridge, Auckland. The etono was discovered by O’Neill and Hall, of Hamilton, and an assay which has been made at Auckland remitted in a yield of 3360 z of gold and 16900 zof silver per ton. Messrs Smith Sander have left HamiTon for the scene of the discovery, being determined to prove the value of stone taken by themselvrs from the reef. At the Wellington Compensation Court on Monday, Msckny Bros, claimed £1152, for b jury to a farm of 713 acres, near Paikakiriki, by the construction of the Wellington: Manawatu railway. An award of £327 10s was made by the Court. Sir J. Vogel addresses a public meeting at Wellington on Monday next. Sir G. Grey also intends to address tire Wellington public, but owing to ill health wdl bo unable to do so for some days. The well-known thoroughbred stallion Ugly Buck was killad at Martinhorough on Saturday. It appears he attacked a prize boar belonging to the same owner ?a himself, and the boar turned on the horse, and catching him on the throat tore open his windpipe, and severed his jugular vein, Tire glove fight between Murphy and Fox, a' Wellington was won easi y by the former in the third round. It was a very poor exhibition. The Sttpr-me Court sessions opened at Hokitika on Monday, b ;fore the Chief Jii-tic'. W. R ss was convicted of f'U'g’rr, sentence b«ing deferred; John Wt lihm >-■, lircny, w s eenterced to two yenr-- ; Mil ii M dur, tnTCenv, TV S 1C quitted. This conc’uded the criminal hitsines-.