INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1637, 22 September 1887, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At an inquest on the bodies of two children burned to death at Swanson, Auckland. * rerdict of accidental death was returned, the jury censuring two of the witnesses, Arthur ami Jameson, in whose whare the fire started, and who, it was alleged, showed culpable negligence in miking no effort to rescue the children. A valuablo horse belonging to the proprietor of the stage coach at Waiapa (Auckland), hnd its stomach ripped open on Thursday last by some person unknown The. animal, when found, was in terrible suffering, and had to be shot. A telegram from Hamilton states that an old man named Stevens, working with Cussen's survey party in the Te Kupo district, haa shot himself dead, the trigger of the gun with which he committed the deed being pulled by his foot. In the Wellington Bankruptcy Court on Monday morning, the Judge suspended the discharge of two bankrupts for twelve months and six months on the ground of previous bankruptcies and other irregularities. The Lee-Remington rifUs, intended for use at the next meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association meeting, !ave arrived by the 'Frisco Mail steam r. The executive! council of the Association meet !o decide the programme of the Oatnaru meeting on Thursday. In tha Hokitika Supreme Court in the malicious prosecution case the jury could not agrp.e to all the questions and were discharged. The Conrt was engagpd ou Monday with civil coses of little importance to the public. In on* the Chief Justice decided that the s'arnp on a bill of exchange could be endorsed at an} time by the holders, even in Court after proceedings have been taken. Tho Roman Catholics of Oamaru on Sunday subscribed £IOO towards the fund for presentation to Riahop Moran. More has yet to come in. The Bishop is much esteemed th»re for the maoror in which he lihs uplield tho princip'es of his church, and for bis straightforwardness. The liberal contribution is held to be expressive of the feelings of hip people. An old fisherman named Moore dropped dsad in the street at Dunedin on Monday while carrying a bag. Medical evidencewent to show that death resulted from failure of the heart. The Premier returned to Dunedin on Monday, and addressed his constituents in the evening, receiving a vote of confidence. A settler named Louis Laurenson, of Ashley, Clinton, wa>< found de id *n the Ruataniwha plains. When last seen he appeared to ba under the influence of liq-'or. Sonm clothing was found on Tuesday morning on the h.rbor breastwork near Fraemau'ii Biy, Auckland. The clothes were identified at the police station as belo'ging to a Woman nsmed Barrett, who it would itirm, has b?en droned. The womao had on a previous occaeion divested heraelf of her clothing under cover of darkness and swam to a small coasting craft in the stream, i