INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1669, 6 December 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The Taieri County Council have decided to put a stop to those contractors who have made contracts for the carriage of wool in opposition to the Railways. They have resolved to erect a toll-bar ou the main road which goes through the county, and charge £5 per waggon on every four wheeler. Clegg, charged with manslaughter, was brought before the Auckland Police Court on Friday and committed for trial. Prisoner made a statement asserting Ids innocence, stating that he did not strike deceased. He was admitted (0 bail.

The body of Cains, drowned by the boat accident atTaurangaon the26th Nov. was found in the harbor on Friday.

Dewar’s store, Milton, was burned down on Thursday. The slock was insured for £BSO in the Equitable, of which £250 was reinsured in the Phoenix, The building was insured for £4OO.

A man named Jacob Isaacson, living at Coper Mauriceville, near Masterton, was found in the bush, injured, on Ftiday afternoon and died on Saturday. He was bushfelling, and it is supposed he was hurt by a tree falling on him four days before. He bad been lying there ever since. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court Wellington, on Saturday, Charles Watson was committed for trial on a charge of criminal assault. The Christchurch wool sales concluded on Saturdiy. 1500 bales were offered, and prices were .appreciably firmer that' on Friday. A man named Rouse, who left Rangotia on November 4th, and lived on the hill' since, was recaptured on Saturday. He said he was too unwell to work, and so went to the hills, where tie lived on woodhens. He was remanded to ascertain his mental condition.

Soon after midnight on Friduy a fiveroomed cottage in Surrey Crescent, Auckland, belonging to Mr John E. Watson, whs destroyed by fire. It was insured in the South British for £l2O. Two hours later a four-roomed house in First Avenue, Kingsland, owned by Mr Baker, was burned down. Both houses were unoccupied. The Waitotara Election case, in which Mr Bryce petitions for the unseating of Mr Hutchison, is still proceeding at Wanganui.