INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1712, 17 March 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At Napier the head of a gang of larrikins', who had been watched by the police for some limp, was sentenced by the Resident Magistrate to five months' imprisonment for using obscene language and destroying properly. Several other members of the gang weru dealt with more leniently. The Otago and Tuapeka police districts have been amalgamated, and Inspector Moore, who has been stationed at Jjawr rence, has been transferred to Invercargill, Inspector Buckley, who has been iu charge of the Southland district, retiring from the service.

At the Supreme Court, Oamaru, oa Wednesday, Jotin Cooney and James Scott were each sentenced to three years for burglary. John Cowley and James Finn were sentenced to three years each for an attempt to commit an abominable offence. Dr. J. Ronnie, who is connected with the Canadian lady doctor, was committed for trial at Uunedin on Wednesday for alleged indecent assault on a girl seventeen vears of age who was consulting him, It was contended for the defence that the charge was a trumped up-one. B*H was allowed aud found. Curtis and Mclsaacg sold their interests ;n the Mau'toto Mine claim, Thames, for £lO COO, to English, Australian, and Christenuroh syndicates, competing for mining property.

Major-General Schaw de'ivered an interesting lecture to volunteers at Wellington on Thursday, n'ghtoa the Wellington defences, and announced his intention to erect a new battery at Melrose in order to protect Haughton and LyeU'sßiyiu the event of a hostile attack on the city.

A meeting of those interested in the Irish national movement was held at Wellington on Thursday night. The Hon. P, A. Buckley occupied the chair, and a speech was delivered by Archbishop Redwood. A resolution »as passed in favor of Home Rule being granted, and of resuscitating the Wellington brunch of the National League. A boy named McGuiggan getting while drift wood from Hokitibt river slipped in ano 1 was carried down by the current and drowned.

The dispute between a sergeant and the captain of the Invercargill Rifles as to the possession of the flobson Cup for one year which took the form of an action in the Resident Magistrate's Court by the sergeant for the recovery of the trophy, has been settled by a commission of officers Appointed by tho Resident Magistrate. They have found that Sergeant Nichol was the winner of the cup by seven points when the drill attendance marks were adjusted. Mr James Billing who sustained a compound fracture of the leg at Wellington on Monday night by tripping over a etone died in the hospital on Wednesday, erysipelas having set in. Billing came t» the colony as one of the managers of Messrs Brogden and Sons, railway contractors.

George Neuble, working at Chinnory's fl (jcmill, Rangiora, had his right arm drawnintothe scutcher on Thursday morn, ing and it was bo mangled as to rende amputation close to the shoulder necessary r A quantity of quartz Bhowing no cold' has been forwarded to Sir James Hector for assay. The atone was discovered by a man prospecting in the vicinity of Terawhiti, the exact locality being a, sacret. TLe three samples have yielded Boz., 60?, and 48 oz of gold respectively.