INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1676, 22 December 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At a long siltipg ,of the Bankruptcy Court at Dunedin on Monday, Joseph Low,den bad his certificate suspended for, two years. The evidence showed ho had invested £135 as sleeping partner in the tea firm of,Gilbert arid Op. The business was to be a cash one, but Gilbert, on the plea of saving money got him to sign bills. Gilbert gathered as much money together as possible and left for America, leaving Lowden to bear the brunt, :' '

On Saturday Sir James Hector arrived at Greytown, and it is rumored that he pronounced some samples of quartz, sufr milted to him for test from the- Waiobine Gorge, as being remarkably rich in gold. It was stated that he said it would produce, if all according to, sample, as much as 15ozs to the ton. Parties interested in testing the stone have resolved to send out a party at once to Waiohine Gorge to further prospect that, district and bring down some more of the stone. - One of the applications made to Mr Justice Gillies in Chambers at Auckland oq Tuesday morning was, from Mr J. M. Speed, solicitor, who applied that the Registrar of the Supreme Court should shew cause why, in consequence of certain allegations, the judge should not tux a particular bill of costs made out by Mr Speed, His Honor denounced the proceedings as scandalous, and ordered the affidavit Ptt.the file, Ho hoped, the Law Society would move in the matter. Mr Speed says his only course is to request the Minister of Justice to grunt him an enquiry on the subject. A mail bag from Mala toTuuranga containing a considerable sum of money was stolen, A portion of the contents of the bag has been found in Maketu. The official report on the copper deposits found near Woedyille, shows that portions of ore have been found to contain 31.78 per cent of copper. The Wairampa Daily, reports that? (he rumoured mineral discoveries atEketahuna are stones about ; the size, of a pin’s head, which have been pronounced by. the assistant Government geologist to be rubies. . He also reports that the formation of the land in the locality is favorable to mineral discoveries; The body of Mark McCall urn,' who is alleged to have embezzled £3OO from his employers, Messrs Scott and McLean, and for whose arrest a warrant was issued, has been found in Manganui Lake, Hawkes’ Bay.* It is supposed to be a case of suicide. In bankruptcy ft Dunedin on Tuesday, Mr Justice Williams sentenced J. H. Kilgqur to 14 days’ 'mprisonraent, for two ( fiances under'the Act, .Ho said that gross negligence had been shown by the debtor in not having his bdoke balanced.