INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1684, 10 January 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

In the Supreme Court, Wellington, or Friday, Clement Q. Harding, for fa!at pretences, received three years, bavins just come out of gaol after serving a sen tenco on five similar charges. Joht Johnston, alias Ticklepenny, and Charles Jas. Sharpe, for larceny, received eacf one year’a hard labor. On Saturday Henry Herbert Hunt, on three charges of forging and uttering, got four years* penal servitude on each indictment, the term* to be concurrent. Uriah J. Williams, for indecent assault, got two years’ hard labour, Charles Watson, for Indecent assault (three previous conviction*) and indecent exposure, got four years* penal •ervitnde. S. D. Egden was arraigned on a charge of larceny, and found guilty. He was sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour. . , , , The boat Dream capsized in the harbor af Lyttelton on Sunday about noon, and a man named Peter Anderson was drowned. The floods have done a considerable amount of damage throughout the Southland district, Frank Cassidy, a settler at Wrey’s Bush, was drowned on Thursday night in a creek near the Aparim*. Cassidy had been attending the funeral of a friend in Winton, and was returning home. Just a few minutes before his own death he was the means of saving a man from drowning in the Aparina*. Ho leaves a widow and tour children. A man named Matheson baa been drowned intheWaikaia district. The suspension bridge erected over the Aparima by the County Council about a year ago, and ■which was of great public convenience, has been swept away, together with thirty feet of embankment. The Nightcaps line, which cost n large sum to repair after the floods two years ago, is again badly damaged. Settlers of many years’ residence say that the flood in the Aparima was the most extensive they have known. At Dipton the township was submerged, gardens were destroyed, and residents removed their furniture. Largo quantities of grass for seed were carried away. The criminal sessions 'concluded'at Dunedin on Friday. Wm. Kirk, charged with wounding, was convicted of common assault, and sentenced to one: month. OLas. Wilkins, convicted of two indictments for larceny, was sentenced to two months.

The tax of £5 on wool waggons, imposed by the Taieri County Council, ihns proved prohibitive as was intended. It does not affect ratepayers in the county, but only those beyond it who had contracted with waggoners at cheaper rates than the railway, and they would have cut up the tounty roads without ratepayers getting any equivalent. ' ' . Tha total takings of the Otago Caledonian Society for three days’ sports at Dunedin was £630, exclusive of sale of privileges. W. Williams, Wellington, £4O, was the largest winner. Robertson, the half-caste wrest'er, won £22. The skeleton of a human body has been . found about nine miles from Eketahunga, Wellington. There was no sign of clothing about. The remains are supposed to be those of Webber, formerly chief surveyor at Hawke's Bay, who mysteriously disappeared about eighteen months ago. Charles Hamilton, a station hand at Maslerlon, has been committed for trial on a charge of forging the name of his - employer. r It has been decided to hold an Intercolonial Regatta at Port Chalmers at the end of M«rch or early in April, and a first prine of £IOO will be offered. The Education Board of Otago has decided to continue carrying on the Training College. Tb* lad named Frank Grant, who was run over by a loaded truck at Milton on Friday, and had his leg amputated, died on Sunday morning. The Rev. David Walker, Church of England clergyman, who recently arrived from the Home Country for the benefit of his health, died in the hospital at Dunedin on Sunday from typhoid fever. Operations for the restoration of the General Post Office will be set on fo6t upon tha return of the Minister of Works to Wellington. A cash box was broken open at the Empire Hotel, Wellington, on Wednesday night and £2O stolen. The barquentino Jasper, from Lyttelton/ will load a cargo of Pit Heath (Greyooouth) coal for Mauritius. This will be the first of this coal shipped direct to a foreign port.

Mr Goldie, the Sanitary Inspector at Auckland, and his wife were seriously indisposed a few days ago. His said that their illness was caused by anting strawberries with strychnine on . them. It appears that a certain grower had been in the habit of spreading poisoned berries with the intention of killing birds. In some way it got on the s! raw berries that Mr Goldie and his wife ate. Both became seriously ill but are now better.