INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1667, 1 December 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Gold ii said to have been discovered at Coromandel, but the parties interested decline to give any particulars until their rights to the ground have been secured. Arthur John Denton, aged about 19, <vas brought before the E.M. Court, Oamaru, on Monday morning and charged with committing rape on a little girl aged nine years. Accused was remanded till luesday on the application of the police. His solicitor has asked that accused be examined as to hia sanity.

David Smyth, merchant, died suddenly at Invercargill on Sunday, falling from his chair while reading a book. Ho was formerly Chairman of the Bluff Harbor Board, and contested the Avrarua seat at elections in 1881. The Catholic Church of St. Patrick was opened at Orepnki, Southland, on Sunday by Bishop Moran, who denounced as shabby and unjust the action of those who opposed the Catholic application for an educationslgrant. The concession was opposed because it would increase the expenditure, and yet Catholics were entitled to £40,000 a year, that being the sum saved to Government by these schools; Their opponents wished to save their pockets through the zeal and adherence of the Catholics.

Shortly after 6 o’clock on Sunday night a fatal boating accident occurred at Tauranga. Four white men named Caines, Moss, Fitagerald, McCandish, and a native were out in the harbor trying a new boat just built for one of the stilling races in the forthcoming regatta. The boat carried an immense sail and when jibeing she was struck by a strong gust of wind and overturned and sank. All the men were saved but Caines, who was 40 years of age and leaves a wife. The Committee of the Auckland Industrial Association have passed a resolution expressing the opinion that the question of protection to local industries is of equal importance with that of retrenchment and have decided to ask all the Auckland members who favor Protection to support the revision of the tariff this session.

A rich deposit of manganese has been discovered at Purus, near Wangareie, Auckland, and will be worked by a local company, A trial shipment of 200 tons will be sent away as soon as a wharf can be erected.

A woman named Mrs Bussell, walking from Okarito to Boss, a distance of about 60 miles, has been lost on (he road. The mailman, who left since, has arrived, and says that he saw no trace of her. It in feared that she lost her way in the bush, or else was carried down one of the rivers nod drowned. There is very little hops of finding her alive. Search parties are now out.

Mr Ballance has given instructions to his solicitor to take action against Mr Gilbert Carson, proprietor of the Wanganui Chronicle, for certain references made to Mrs Ballance. The Wellington correspondent of the Press, writing on Tuesday, says :—“ Mr Ballance’s libel action against the Wanganui Chronicle for remarks on Mrs Ballance has caused some talk, and it is explained that the paragraph on which Mr Ballance bases bis claim was taken from the Hawke’s Bay Herald, and refers to a story about changing cooking stoves for gas stoves, and also naming Mrs Ballance as having ordered a £4O pair of curtains at the expense of the country and then not using them. Mr Ballance says he has no objection to any remarks made about himself, but does not care to see hie wife’s name used in this way, especially when the charge is not true. It is said to be probable that the Hawke’s Bay Herald will also receive a 'awyer's letter. As a matter of fact, Mr and Mrs Ballance did not occupy a Ministerial residence at all.