INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1687, 17 January 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A man who fell down a well and sprained his ankle recently at Hawera died through amputation being delayed too long. Mr Courtney, who recently brought out thirty-one young men from Home by the Tongariro, has succeeded in providing comfortable situations for them in Tara* naki. The body of a child, about seven days old, has been washed ashore at Evans’a Beach, Wellington, in a sugar bag. The child had evidently been strangled and then thrown into the sea.

Messrs Chaafe and J. Kean, the wellknown horse trainers, Auckland, have offered a stake of £IOO if Laing will again meet Matthews to contest the boxing championship. Whilst a squad from the Nelson was practising at the butts at Wellington on Friday a splinter from a bullet struck seaman Sampson (who was engaged marking) in the left eye, destroying his sight. Payable gold has been discovered at Upper Waihon, Hokianga, on the land of flokia Patnare, and assays made sesalted in & return of 3ozs to the ton.

The temperance meeting at Auckland resolved to reject the proposals fiom the Victuallers’ Association for a compromise over the licensing elections, and appointed a committee to fight the elections bn the old programme of ten-o’clock closing, no upstairs bars, and no increase of licensee* Thomas McKay was drowned in the Waiuku river, near Gisborne, on the 7 th, McKay was married to a Maori woman only three weeks ago in Gisborne, and bis married life was very unhappy, and deceased was leaving his wife when he was drowned. Hejeft the Waimotini Hotel on horseback, and the horse returned without his rider two hours afterwards. On search being made the body was found in the river. Deceased was about forty years old, and a native of Scotland. A complication has arisen in connection with the Honorarium Act. When the Bill was originally introduced it proposed that the Wellington members of the Legislative Council should not receive any honorarium, and that Wellington members of the House of Representatives should be debated from receiving the extra allowance of £SO granted for general expenses to members residing more than three miles from the place of. meeting of Parliament. The hill was amended so that Wellington members who had to fight elections should receive £25 but the amendment inserted had the words “General Assembly," which of course means both branches of the legislature. It is stated that four of the Wei* lington Legislative Councillors Hons, E A. Hart, P. A. Buckley, R. Pharazyn, and Jno. Martin—sent in vouchers for the amount when the session ended, and the Speaker of the Council, after consideration, accepted the wording of the Act as it stood, and signed the vouchers, which were paid by the Treasury without being first submitted to the comptroller and auditor, • When they did reach that officer be contended that although the words “ General Assembly " were in the Act, it was evident from the context that they were not intended to apply to members of the Legislative Council, and that the claims should not have been certified or paid. He accordingly refused to pass the expenditure, and has it is understood culled upon the Speaker to refund the mousy on hie certificate.

The Wellington yacht Dido was captured at Lyttelton at about JO o’clock on Thursday night. Two men, brothers, named White, one accompanied by his wife Etta White, were on the yacht. They cast off the tow-line several times, but did not offer other resistance. All were charged at the R.M. Court, Lyttelton, on Friday, nd remanded.

The Napier R,M» Court was occupied on Friday in hearing a charge against two women and two men of a serious assault on Constable Oarmody on No w Year’a eve. The policeman was in plain clothes, watching a gang of larrikins. He followed one across a vacant section, when he was set upon by the youth, his father, and two females. The constable remained in bed for ten days afterwards, and is not yet fully recovered. The elder man, named Roulston, was fined £lO and costs ; the younger man was dismissed, as it appeared that he knew Oarmody was a policeman, and tried to stop any further assault by hie father. The women also got off, as it was not shown that they were aware it was a policeman who was being assaulted.