INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1668, 3 December 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashcroft and Company insist on the electric lighting contract being eurried out by the Auckland City Council, and decline to rescind it unless paid £SO alleged expenses incurred by them in making preparations. Mr Wl Pere’s election petition against the return of Mr J. Carroll is appointed to be heard at Gisborne in January. At Dunedin yesterday, another three card trick man, John Hyatns, was fined £95. with the option of imprisonment for six weeks. Charles Watson has been arrested at Wellington on a charge of criminally assaulting a girl under twelve years of age. Ho was remanded till Saturday# The Wellington Education Board have resolved on giving the teaching staff of the Training College three months’ notice* George Craddock, a boatman, plying on the Duller River for twenty years past, drifted across the bar on Wednesday afternoon. He has not been picked up. Mrs Kilner has been found drowned at Westport in a tub of water. As she was subject to fits, it is supposed she fell into the water while in a fit and was drowned. A man named Hayes has been killed at Owen’s Look-out, near Westport. The Champion Copper Mining Company'a property (Nelson) was put up on Wednesday and bought in for £2900. A man named J. N. Harvey has been arrested at Collingwood, Nelson, on n charge of arson. An unoccupied house belonging to accused was burned down a short lime ago. A young man named John Fergusson, twenty-one years of ago, was drowned at Green Island Beach on Wednesday. Ho formed one of a picric party, and was washed off the bench by a large wave. An eight-roomed house at Toitoi Valley, owned and occupied by Mrs Cecilia Clark, Nelson, was burned down on Thursday morning. It was insured in the Royal Office for £2OO.

An old resident at Invercargill, named John Tint, engaged as a hawker, cornoiitted suicide by taking rough on rata. It is understood that Major-General Whitmore has determined upon taking up his permanent residence in England and that ho will leave the colony some time next year. Sir George has just completed the manuscript of a book winch it is believed he intends publishing, and will bo of great interest to this colony—the complete history of the native disturbances on the East and West Coasts which he, as commander of the colonial forces, succeeded in suppressing. Mr William Pollard, manager of several stations belonging to the Loan and Mercantile Company in Marlborough, was charged on Thursday with having failed to inform the Sheep Inspector as to the existence of scab at Tophouse and Manakau Island stations. He pleaded guilty, and in evidence admitted that he was aware of the existence of scab, but was in hope that he could stamp it out by dipping. When the Inspector asked if there jvas any scab on the run he fenced with the question. Mr Allen, R.M., fined defendant in the minimum penalty, £SO, and said that it would not effect his decision under any future information. Other informations will bo laid, and if the full penalties are granted, the defendant will lose £2OOO.

At the Wesleyan District Meeting at Auckland on Wednesday, the Rot. R. Bavin moved—“ That, in the opinion of this meeting, it is undesirable that they should at present be constituted a separate and independent conference.” This was seconded by the Rev. Mr Rishworth. As an amendment, the Rev. S. Lawry moved —“That, in view of frequent requests from our various church courts, it is desirable that New Zeeland be constituted a self-governing conference.” Mr Edson seconded the amendment. After a lengthened debate a vote was taken with; the following result For separation, 8 against, 36; majority for the Rav. Mr Bavin’s motion, 28. The Rev. Mr Taylor was elected representative to the conference. Lewis Frederick Drew and Denis Fox, master and mate, respectively, of the schooner Awurua, belonging to Mr i. Hutch, were charged at the Invercargill Police Court on Tuesday with having on the 15tb August at the Auckland Islands

killed 10 seals during the close season, and with having in their possession at the Auckland islands the skins of 176 seals. The offence was alleged to have been committed on the occasion of the rescue of the survivors of the barque Derry Castle by the schooner, which was formerly engaged for some months by the Government of New Zealand in protecting the sealeries of the Auckland islands, The case was conmcted by the Crown Prosecutor, who applied for and was granted an adjournment till Thursday, in the ab--1 gonce at Stewart Island of a materia i witness.

The thirteenth annual ram fair at Napier is fixed for February 8. At Dunedin on Monday u woman named Emily Dunbar was sent to gaol for six months, under rather peculiar circumstances, for steeling a jacket and umbrella. She had been charged with a similar offence last Tuesday, and to appear in Court she had 'aken the artic’es from a woman she was staying with. It was stated that she was respectably connected in Christchurch, but th a ,re were some doubts as to her sanity, and she had been in the Christchurch Asylum. The Bench dec ; ded that as her friends did not seem inclined to do anything for her the kindest thing to do was to send her to gaol. “ Bough oh Coens.”— Ask for " Wells’ " Rough on Corns,” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions, At Chemists and Druggists. Kempthorne, Froner and Co., Agents, Christchurch. 3