INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1664, 24 November 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Olement Harding, for obtaining money by false pretences, was com* mitted for trial at Wellington yeuter* day. Edward Roberts, arrested at Wellington some days ago for unlawfully and maliciously wounding William Clements with a knife, was acquitted yesterday, At the R.M. Court, Wellington, yesterday, William Henshaw, on two charges of selling goods, etc,, by auction without being duly licensed, was fined £IOO on each charge. A man named Parker tell from the loft of a stable at Greymonth on Tuesday night and fractured bis skull. He now lies unconscious at the hospital.

In the Appeal Coart, Wellington, on Tuesday, the argument was conclnded in the case of the Official Essignee v, Moa Dairy Factory, New Plymonth, and judgment was reserved, The case of the Shaw Savill and Albion Company v. Timaru Harbor Board, an application for a new trial and nonsuit was commenced, and it likely to extend over several days. There was fine weather for the Otago Agricultural Show yesterday. The attendance was more than expected, being over the average. The sheep were particularly strong, over 100 more being shown than last year, merinos especially being of a high quality. Cattle that were quite up to excellence in previous years’ jndging were jost commended. The implements constituted a great feature of the Show, a great deal of interest bring manifested in various types of binders, some of which ware in motion.

A Mr E, Light band was thrown from n bicyc e in Armagh Street, Christchurch, on Monday night, aod sprained both wrists badly,—-A lad named Edwin James Fuller was badly hurt at Christchurch on Tuesday evening. A cart in which he was riding collided with another and oiipsir’d, the boy falling under it. One of his feet was very badly crushed, the flesh being lorn off from the ankle to the toes, and the ankle was dislocated. The Roman Catholics of the Invercargill district have subscribed £3OO ns a testimonial to Bishop Moran.

A two-roomed house at Hampstead, Ashburton, occupied by a man named Peter Stewart was, with its contents, destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. Stewart had a narrow escape of losing hij life. He had no time to dress or save anything, and got out of the burning building through a window, being badly cut while doing «o. At the annual meeting of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company, the report, recommending a dividend of 8 'per cent., was adopted. The Chairman said it had not been easy to make good sales, and it bad been found necessary to shorten production. Since the formation of the Company the bad debts had only amounted to £4082, or a sixteenth per cent, on the turn-over.

Two cottages in Clyde Street, Invercargill, owned and occupied by Mr D. A. Taylor and Mr A. Menzies, reapectively, were burned on Tuesday afternoon. The insurances were £2OO on each building in the New Zealand office, and £IOO in the Norwich Union on Mr Taylor's furniture. Mr Menzies’ furniture was all saved.