INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1671, 10 December 1887, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the Auckland Supreme Court on Wednesday, Morton was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude for larceny and Roberts, who pleaded “ Guilty ’’ to a similar charge, to eighteen months’ hard labor. R. 0. Polley pleaded “ Guilty ”to attempted suicide, and was bound over on surety for twelve months. J. Smith was charged with obtaining goods by false pretences, but the jury disagreed and were discharged. A boy named Fredk. KUnk, four years old, was struck by a cow-catcher on the engine of the Wellington train at Feilding on Wednesday. His skull is fractured and brain protruding, and his recovery is doubtful. The Education Department have received a letter from the Humane Society of Australasia, intimating that the Society have decided to offer a bronze medal to each school in the colony for proficiency in swimming exercises with reference to saving life, also to give certificates of proficiency in theoretical knowledge of the art of saving life from drowning, sunstroke, apoplexy, etc., each school in order to qualify to contribute t® the funds of the Society, thus cons'ituting the head master a member of the Society. The man Stanley, reported missing at Wellington has been found staying with a relative in the country. The Nelson Education Board at a meeting agreed with the raising of the school age to six, providing it did not interfere with country schools. They also thought that the expenses of the Education Department in Wellinton might be curtailed and that a small stamp tax should be charged on tickets to places of amusement bazaars, art unions, and totaliaatora, for education purposes. The death is announced of William Caldwell, a prominent member of the Masonic body at Dunedin. The number receiving outdoor relief from the Benevolent Institution at Dun. edin is 384, against 329 in February, re-' ceiving an average of 6s 3d per week. The average of inmates is now 175, against 166, at an average cost, exclusive of salaries etc, of 5s 6d, or with, 8a Bd. The body of Walter Begg, who has been missing since the 28(h November, was discovered in the harbor at Auckland on Thursday. He is supposed to have fallen in while drunk. A son of a tailor named Shlierich was drowned on Thursday by falling off the Foxton wharf into the Manawatu river. The father was nearly drowned in his attempt to rescue the child.

Two accidents recently occurred at the tab’e land, Mount Arthur diggings. Upper Tabaka Valley, Nelson. A young m m named Fauchelle was struck by a big stone whilst working in bis clam, ahd mu thigh was b-idly smashed. His mates carried him across (be range to Graham River, whence ho was conveyed to Motueka. The journey across occupied. 12 hours. Another man named Joseph May, abo was engaged packing to the diggings, wa< kicked by hU horse in tin* nmm-ch. He erawted down to Mr tleiUb’s, but he died on Thutuday morning.