INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1644, 8 October 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A house at Auckland, occupied by Captain Lindsay at Ngaruawahia was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning. It was insured for £760 in the New Zealand Office.

The recent inspection of the dice in the South Island bj the Commissioner of Police, i.shows the present strength of sergeants and first-class constables -is rspoiud to be in excess of requirements. There ere no fewer than four SergeantMajors and sixty-six Sergeants in the Force, or one to every six constables. In the case of first-class constables the proportion is out of all reason as compared with second and third class number, being 140, 100, 147 respectively. It is recommended that the strength of non-com-missioned officers should be reduced to four Sergeant-Majors and fifty-two Sergeants, and that the strength of first, class constables shou'd in future be • 100, and second class 100, reductions in all cases to be effects 1 gradually, as men retire, on account of age or for other reasons.

A youth named Walker has been arrested at Auckland, on suspicion of being implicated in the placing of stones on the railway line at Morningaide about a fortnight ago. Charles Wilkinson, formerly convicted of larceny at Dunedin and lately released from Mount Eden gaol for wilful damage to property, was charged at the Auckland Police Court on Wednesday with vagrancy and breaking a fan-light at Mr; Roper’s residence on Saturday last. He was sentenced to five months’imprisonment in all, Mr Baddeley, R.M., remarking that the prisoner was a most dangerous man to bo at large.