INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1635, 17 September 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A married woman named Harriett Deakio attempted suicide at Wellington by throwing heruelf into the water cff- the breastwork. She was rescued with difficulty. She said that sho was too bad to live. . Mr Thornton, bead teacher of the Greymouth State School and Mr Clements, assistant, will probably take action against certain members of the Greymouth School Committee, for alleged libellous statements. The furni are and nuotion-mirt ot Penitnan and Co , at Oamaru,' was burned down on Wednesday morning. The insurances amount to JE6OO. A man named James 0/a g has been fined £3 7* and costs, for adulterating milk, at Dunedin. Shortly after one o’clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out in! High St, Blenheim and completely destroying the wine and spirit store occupied by Ralph and Andrews, and the large now warehouse and stables of Holmes and Bell. It is impossible to say where the fire" originated, as it had, when first nolioed a good ho d of both premises. Very little of Holmes and Bell’s largo stock wos saved, Andrews lost everything. The insurances amounted to £BISO, A youth named Geo. Williams was charged with rspe at Wellington on Wednesday, but was acquitted. At the Supremo Court, Hokitika, on Wednesday, William Boas was sentenced to three years tor forgery. In the divorce case Bm’booc v. Briscoe and faearle, the jury found there was not sufficient evidence against the oouesponde it. The Judge will give his decision as to a dissolution of marriage on Siturday, The other divorce oases were held over till that date. At tho district meeting of the Manchester Unity at Dunedin, the repott showed a slight decrease in the number of members. The total ialn« of the district is sot down at £44,278 j the average amount per member paid for sickness was 7* 9id. At 'he Supreme Court, Auckland, on Wednesday, the Clunoa’, father and bod, were found guilty of receiving the jewellery oi Mrs Ar.d>rson (who was robbed) knowing j-. to be solen and sontenosd to three years’ impri-onment. Isaac Penny and .Geo. Oaldioutt, rtilway omploy<es, wrre charged at the Auckland P»lioi Court on Wednesday, with.causing a train to run over a flock of *heep at Onehnnga, mutilating severs l . It war stated that one sheep was ki Lid, the backs of two ware broken, and several others injured. Ton Bench said the case was a very gross one, at d fined each of the defendants £5 and C(*tr, or fourteen days’ imprisonment. Mi D ibson, ■ f N .pint, ha# received oabie advices from Mcssts Tysor and Co. that the Colonial Union Comp* y> steamers Balosrre thro ik Bulled for Sydney? and New Zealand on tb. B.h September, to befolluwed i» the steamer Ashleiijhbrook, on the 6th Ootiber. be s.a. B;lembria replaces the Ene r gi», and s>.ils at the end of Ocoober, and theO'imbidia completes the st atner The Balmoral Castle is due at Sydney during September, and brings 1900 tons oI cargo for New Zealand. A young man named Alex. Johnstone was committed to the Wellington Lun»iic Asylum on W«d> esday. At the Gt' go Education Board on Thursday, Dr Brown q .esti med the wigdbm of offti ng pr’iie on ihp one hand to . teachers who had »ucoeaH(jd iu obtaining largo per. oantages of passes, and censuring on theotner huni teachers who had not been sosuooeß’ful, without taking into consideration the other features of teaching. Some other members of the board expressed concurrence with Dr Brown’s remarks.