INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1645, 11 October 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The adjeurned inquest on the body of the dead child found on the 26th nit., near the Thistle Hotel, Auckland, was held on Friday, when a verdict was returned that (he child died from hemorrhage or from suffocation at the time of birth, but whether such neglect was caused through ignorance or the incapacity of the mother, or malice "with wilful felonious intent, there is no evidence to show. William Walker. 14 years of age, was convicted of placing stone* on the railway line at Morniugsido, Auckland, but on .account of his youth was let off with a fine of £1 10s and costs. Mrs Leech, of Inglewood, near New Plymouth, was found drowned in a pond at the back of her house at 1 o'clock on Friday. Mrs Leech had been ill for some weeks apd her mind was wandering. At 5 Friday morning she had got out of bed when her son, who had been sitting up ad night with her, dozed off, but waking, missed her, and on going out found her near a pool of water. Between 12 and 1 o’clock she was again missed from her bed, and on searching, her body, clad in her night dress, was found in a pool of water at the back of, the house, about a hundred yards away. The body exhibited no maiks of violence. She was 48 years of age. Tepuoi, a Maori chief of some influence in the Hutt district, died on Thursday night. He was said to be about 94 years old.

At the Wellington Supreme Court on Friday, the question of estreating bail in the case of Robin, charged with embezzlement, but who did not appear, was mentionsd. At tbs commencement counsellor sureties took objection that the recognizances were void ex facie as they veto signed ,by » justice of the peace and not by the cemraittiug Magistrate, After argument the ci«e, was adjourned for a week. An explanation has been, made in, conjnection- with the charges of bribery made in connection with the Wnihemo electorate, from ‘ which it appears that the whole matter arose out of a misconception. A man did receive a telegram in which an offer was mads, but it turns out on irquiry being made that the telegram was not genuine, but was apparently a practical joke. Some one having obtained a telegraph foim wrote the offer on it and posted it, and the person who received it thought the telegram was’a genuine one until he thade inquiry. The police at Christchurch explain that the reason of the apparent discrepancies offered in the Radoliffe case at Adelaide in regard t® the date of the warrant issued for his arrest was that the warrant really was issued on Sept. 3rd, as telegraphed to Adelaide before Constab’e Stunner left here. It was ascertained that this warrant was not sufficiently explicit, and another was substituted for it, dated Sept, 6th. Hen:e the statement made that the warrant had been issued on Sept. 3rd was quite correct. Justice Boucant, in giving judgment, commented very severely on the discrepancy, but it appears there was really no reason for blaming the police here.

Sir Robert Stout hns denied the statement that he is going to Melbourne. At Wellington on Saturday Mrs Campbell, barmaid at the Foresters’ Hotel, sued the chief officer (Mr Lindsay) of the b.p. lonic for £SO for breaking her arm, medical expenses, etc. It appeared there had been a gathering at the hotel, with some dancing, and the accident occurred when the party were leaving. Plaintiff averred that Lindsay twiated her arm while shaking hands with her, causing her to fall and break her arm, but defendant alleged that she swung round of her own accord and suddenly let go and fell in consequence. The Magistrate gave judgment for £5 and costs. With.reference to the proposed alterations in the Midland Railway contract, it is stated that the company wish them, in order to inspire confidence? on the stock exchange. Their own representatives are quite satisfied with the valuable nature of the concession, Mr Brodie-Hoare, having staled that tVe forest block around Lake Brunner would in itself pay the whole cost of Ihe line. Half of this block the company get in alternate sections, and the lirahrr royalty a'one is estimated to be worth ten pounds an acre. For the other land, the company have already been offered one pound per acre. A little girl named Hubble, two and a-half year* old, daughter of a telephone lineman at Wellington, while swinging on Saturday, got her neck entangled in the rope, and was strangled to deaf. At the Christchurch Police Court cn Saturday Greeve De Bruu, a .stationer, was charged with arson and remanded, He came from Norway in June last and bought out Mrs Hitt, giving her a promissory note fur £2CO, due on November 20. He insured the etock for £3OO. The boating season was opened at Nelson on Saturday with a large procession of boats. At Dunedin on Saturday Mr H. Chapman, Hou. Secretary to.the Rugby Union, was presented with a gold natch in recog. nition of his valuable services to football. A man named Fisher was killed on Saturday afternoon in St, John's Anglican 0 urch, Invercargill. The first section of the new budding is being c unpleted, and Fisher was acting air laborer to a plasterer, when he fe I from the sc ffold ]slt to tiro floor. His skull was fractured, and he died before reaching the hospital. At Auckland on Saturday the case of J. Howard v. G. Hulme, c'aitn £IOO damages, w a heard. In July l"*t trio plaintiff, J. Howard, "as knocked down in Quem street by Hulme, who was under the impressien that Howard was about to cqmrait a theftjrqm the jpremiseß of the ldefendant. Howard is now in the Luna ic A«y,' , jm puff-.ri g from insanity.; . His Honor ru’ed that the subsequent 'lunacy was not the result of the blow given by Hulmr, »nd he, . therefore, , awarded damages to the plaint ff tor £5 .only. , Ao accident occurred at M .rdon’a fl irworks,. Raugi.oru,,on Friday m rhii.g. A portion of the scutcher, which runs at a high rate of speed, give wny, and pmashed the surrounding,wood-work and the wall of ihe building. Henry Warden, FifZ'H, and E. O’Neil', young men who sere working ihe machine, were s'ruck by splitters, ihe l*o former receiving :overe cuts on their ipreheadu, and the latter a flesh wound on the ihigh.