INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1652, 27 October 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The £5-noto recently sent as a bribe to a police constable stationed north of Auckland, and which was at once handed by him to the authorities?, has been forwarded by .Inspector McGoverin to the Auckland Benevolent Society.

1 The body : of the man Lynch, drowned in a recent boat accident at Hobßonville, Auckland,-'-was recovered on Monday near Lucas Creek, Petitions to the House of Representatives, in favor of Bible reading in schools, were placod for signature on Sunday in the lobbies ©f several Wellington churches. -—Marton .-Douglas Campbell, aged eight, was killed on Saturday afternoon at Wellington, by the capsizing of a dray. His neck was broken. Lord and Lady Carnarvon, who were passengers per Coptic from Capetown, were Inndei at Hobart. They intend coming on to New Zealand after visiting Victoria and New South Wales.

Two Chinese gardeners were on Monday at Wellington, fined: in a nominal sum for working in their gardens on Sunday. Their excuse was that the weeds were growing so fast that they -tract To-wonrrocTeur ineg'rotinci. -;

A young man named George Horan was drowned in the Otematata River, Otago, on Thursday last. He was trying to take his dog out of the water, when lie was swept off his feet and carried away, i The ketch Blackball, bound from Lyttelton to OkniVs Bay, was wrecked at Port Levy on Sunday. Only one man was on board and bo got ashore safely. After realising on all their assets the shareholders in the Waimea Plains Railway Company sustain a loss ol £1 18s per share. The Registrar of the Wellington Supreme Court on Tuesday received the petition of Mr Wi Pere, challenging the election of Mr James Carroll, who was returned as member for the Eastern Maori electorate. The alleged ground is bribery. The necessary deposit of £2OO has been made with the Supreme Court.

At the Wellington -Supreme Court on Tuesday, judgment was delivered in a case with referency to estreatrnent of recognisances entered into for the appearame at the last criminal sittings of one Robin, committed for trial on a charge of embezzlement. Mr Justice Richmond held that the recognisances were void, on the ground that they were not taken by the committing magistrate but before another justice; A complimentary banquet was given at We'lington on Tuesday to the Hon. G. Fisher by his supporters. From the Ist January this year up to Monday, the output from the Wesiport Coal Company's Coalbrookdale mine was 100,000 tons. An-additional 23,000 tons is expected to be put out before the end of the year. The Company's output in 1886 was 73,809 ions. The Lyell (WceS Coast} punt, upon which was the mail cosch with two passengers, broke eway on Tuesday, but Stranded on a flat five miles down the Buller river, All landed safely. It is found that if the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act is not altered it will be necessary at Hokitika to have rateß for charitable aid amounting to Is 3d in the £, A house at East Oxford, Christchurch, belonging to Mr Arthur Stubbs, was destroyed by fire. It is injured for £4OO in the New Zealand office. The cause of the fare is unknown.

Ihe lawn tennis champion meeting has been fixed for December 22nd, 23rd, and 24b, at Lascnster Park. The Curistcburch Champion Cup, value ten guineas added, is offered for men's singles. The Rev. J. 8. Hill, of Auckland, on Tuesday night concluded a very successful mission at Christehurch, in connection with the Y.M.O.A, He addressed largo audiences in the Oddfellows' Hall during iast week. A laborer nitmed Hugh Anderson was found in his bed at Outram, Otsgo, on Taesday morning, with his throat cut, having apparently attempted suicide. The wound is not cxpectul to prove fatal,

. The Anglican Synod was opened at Dunedin on Tuesday afternoon. Bishop Nevill, in his address, dealt with the necessity of the Synod's formulating a policy for the guidance of the whole body, so that Ihe views of the Church might be known in a concrete form, when politicians could not ignore their views. As to ndigirus education, the profound conviction of the Church was that the present was bised upon tho fatal mistake that secular knowledge was sufficient. On the question of contributions he said that giving 'owardn the maintenance of the chuich should not be looked upon like the comp'acent offering of a {shilling to a b-ggar. The annual meeting of the Presbyterian Synod of dago and Southland commenced .at Dunedin on Tuesday evening, when the Moderator, the Rev. Jjmes Davidson, delivered an address on tha Christian Ministry.