INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1664, 24 November 1887, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Charles Leech, who was injured at West Hamilton station, Auckland, on Saturday, died before an operation could be performed.

Frank Kneebone, miner, was killed in Kapnnga mine at Coromandel, Auckland, on Saturday night, A truck fell down a shaft 300 feet deep, where Kneebone was working at the bottom, and smashed in his skull.

Ellon Frances Brown pleaded guilty at the Auckland Police Court on Monday to endeavoring to obtain money by false pretences. Mr Baddeley, R.M., said the accused was evidently un old hand at this sort of thing. She was a most dangerous woman to be at large, as no man was safe while she was about. Prisoner had nothing lo say except that she did not know it was a crime to register an adopted child as her own. She was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labor.

It.ia reported that a resident of T»mranga has fallen heir to property worth two millions sterling. The newly formed Wellington ■ Bowling Club was opened on Saturday by His Excellency the Governor. The bowling ground measures 110 feet square. The last southern escort brought down to Dunedin £21,000 worth of gold. The operations of the Walton Park Coal and Pottery Company (Otago) for the year shows a balance of £lB4 to credit. The land account has been greatly reduced on the company's books. The entries for the Otago A. and P. Society’s Show show an increase of 164 over last year, principally in sheep and ini plan ents. Horses and Ayrshires show a decrease. The total number of entries is 1227.

After a hearing extending over several days, the bench of Justices at Wyndham, Southland, sent John Meikle, farmer, of Tuturau, and his son Arthur, for trial at the Supreme Court on a charge of stealing 27 sheep from the Isley Station, the property of the New Zealand Loan and Investment Company. It was stated in evidence that a thousand sheep were missing. The elder Meikle alleged that the case was trumped up to prevent him going to Wellington to prosecute a complaint he has laid with the Government against the magistrate, police, counsel and others in connection with some previous charges.

A little boy named James A. Hamilton, aged 8, was crushed between the buffers

of two railway trucks at Oamaru on Sunday evenu.g. lie was playing with several other children amongst some trucks standing on a siding, when two of them were pushed together, the buffers catching the little fellow across the chest, forcing the ribs to the lungs. Ho lived for about three hours afterwards. An inquest was held, at which a verdict of occidental death was returned.

Mr Henry Anderson, journalist, Wellington, has laid two informations in (he Resident Magistrate’s Court against Mr W. O. Nation, proprietor of the Wairarapa Standard, charging him with criminal libel. The articles complained of were published in issues of the Standard of the 12th and 26th September last, under the headings of “Red Herrings,” “ I he Three Bs,” and “ Incomplete Farce.” • The cases will probably beset down for hearing in the Wellington Court on Wednesday next.

At Auckland on Monday night an unfinished 9-roomed’ house belonging to Mr Casey, and an adjoining one belonging to Mr Ettey were destroyed by fire. The insurances amounted to £450.

A fire took place in the Onehunga Woollen Works on Tuesday, and damage to the amount of £2OO was done. Heating of the wool is supposed to have been the cause.

Ellen Frances Brown, charged at Auckland with perjury in the affiliation case against George Pooley, was committed for trial.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Comt, Wellington, on Tuesday, Professor Shannon, a chiropodist, was sentenced to two months’ hard labor for an unprovoked assault on a Wellington resident in a railway train, returning from Wairarapa, on the 9th inst.

It is understood that General Schnw, in his report on harbor defences, will state that torpedo launches are not needed for defence either at Pott Chalmers or at Lyttelton, and will recommend that the two launches now at those ports shall be added to the defences of Wellington and Auckland, respectively. There will then bo two torpedo launches at each of the latter places. The following protest of the Wellington Radical Reform Assaciation has been forwarded to the Minister of Education against tlie Government proposal to alter the education system of the colony :—(a) Because it will, especially in large towns, throw a great number of children out of school; (b) that depriving children between five and six of the right of attending school will be injurious to their future training and life ; (c) that the reductions proposed are so excessive that the salaries of teachers will have to be reduced 25 per cent., and that small schools in outlying districts will have to be closed ; fd) that the stoppage of the extra 5s capitation is a greater proportionate redaction than Government propose in other brunches of the public service ; (e) that the electors of the colony generally at the recent elections determined that the system should not be altered, and the proposal of the Minister of Education is in vi< latiou of Ids own and of the pledges of three-quarter-of the members of the House ; (f) that this Association also protests against the proposed mode of altering lire eduedion system, inmiely, by Oruers in Council, which are not discussed nor sanctioned by Parliament in Bdls.