INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1681, 3 January 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Another pleasure boat ia : reported missing at Auckland. A man named Edward Powell, with a young man named Kitehins, left on Monday morning in an open boat on a fishing tour, taking no provisions, as they intended to return the same evening. They have not since been heard.of, and a search has proved in vain. The hearing of cases against eight “ spielers,”arrested at Ellerslie racecourse on Monday, was concluded : at the Auckland' Police 11 Court on Saturday. Mr Baddcley, theßesident. Magistrate, imposed the following sentences John, Crop pel, John Hart, Frederick Holmes, Charles. Shearman, and Allen Cdckburn were each fined £SO or tp undergo two months’ imprisonment.. Similar charges for nnlawf ul gaming against McCauley and Smith were dismissed.

An old man named William Esk-y, better known as “Old Ned,” hanged himself at Kanieri, near Hokitika, on Friday night, when rather the worse for liquor. He was quite dead when found. An elopement is reported from Waitsrapa. The wife of a well-to-do fanner, and mother of fifteen children, went off with a shearer, taking one chili, a blind girl eight years old. The husband instructed the police to obtain the return of his daughter. This was effected on Friday, just as the couple were on the’psint of leaving Wellington by -the Wakatipu) for the South,

Shortly after one o’clock on Sunday morning a fire broke out en board the Prince Alfred, anchored at Dunedin.’ The hulk was owned by the Brunner Coal Company, and was used by them. There was not a largo quantity of coal on board, Si|B has been rendered almost useless,' as the fire burned all the morning. The water was quite shallow where she was, and she could not sink. It is not known if she was insured.