INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1717, 29 March 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Owing to the withdrawal of the Government grant, a d that of the Bmonwti Council, the free reading-room and library ■ft the Napier Athenaeum will have to be closed. A light in which Slavin undertook to knock out Scbwass in four rounds took place in the Theatre at Masterton on Saturday night. Schwass failed to come to (ime towards the end of the first round.

Strong oflv.rts are being made to urge the 'Govr.'iUUitiiit to repair the Duller road. The Government consider that the cost would be so heavy that they could not sanction the expenditure without Parliamentary assent. The deputation assert that it would only cost £SOOO. In the Wellington Divorce Court on Monday a decree mst was granted in the case of Henley v, Henley, a wife’s petition for divorce. It was proved that the respondent had married a woman in Sydney. A daring robbery was committed at the Dunedin Coffee Palace last week, the safe having been opened and a sum of £4O abstracted. Suspicion falls on a person who lodged in the place, and who is believed to have pa'd his board on the morning following the robbery with the money which he had taken. Detective R. Neill has arrested a man named Robert Cooper at Christchurch on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery of £4O from the Dunedin Coffee Palace.

Mr Vincent Pyke has returned from Melbourne. He is not well in health, and speaks forcibly of the sanitation of Melbourne.

Mr J Hodge, farmer, of Bottle Lake, North Canterbury, had three stacks of oaten sheaf hay destroyed by fire on Thursday last.

A Fair Rent Bill is now in course of preparation, and will be introduced at an early period of the coming session. At a meeting of the Bush Fires Relief Com mi* tee at Napier on Mondav the Mayor announced the receipt of £IOO from Wanganui. One gentleman deprecated appeals for outside assistance, as Hawke’s Bay was quite wealthy enough to subscribe all the money necessary, as was done on a similar occasion two years ago, when £IOOO was locally raised. A sub-committee was appointed to person Tly investigate a!! claims for relief, and to report on the amount needed to reinstate all settlers in the position they were in before the fire. It is thought the funds will be quite •sufficient to do this. The Auckinnd Hospital and Cuarit ib’e Aid Board negatived a motion to oin ! d a refuge at Ellers ie for old or infirm people at a cost of £4OOO.

A committee of physicians has been invited to confer with a committee of the city council respecting the typhoid epidemic at present existing in Auckl md.

In a letter to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, Mr J. A. Connell suggests that the Chamber of Commence should appoint « special committee, consisting of persons who experience in mining matters, and with power to emp'oy experts, for the purpose of investigating all matters in connection with any mi cm* iliot may be placed upon the market, mof® especially mines proposed to ba floated in Australia or London. The experts are to examine the nines in (jma ion and repoit to the commit ee as to tbeir bona tides, in pespec’ o which a certificate CHfi then be given, Inspector Shearman has issued a district ord-r to the Ancknnd po ice force on the eve of ids retirement, expressing hi, regret at his departure and his gratification that Inspector Brohum is to succeed him. He states that the change has come so suddenly upon him (hat lie is unable to say what he shall do or where be aboil go. Mr Courtney, immigration agent, speak ing at i meeting at N w Plymouth, sod he bad introduced 300 people i'*o the colony, all of whom had paid for the r passages and were salLßed with their prospects.

A lad, about 17 years old, named Brophy, has bemi lust in die hush m Okalc, near New Plymouth, since Sunday. Search parties have been oat every day but fai'ed to find any trace of him. Instructions have been issued to sheep inspectors throughout the colony to collect the rate due, which amounts in all to £ISOO.

Mr Arthur Bail, son of Sir Praccis Dillon Ball, has baeu asked by the Government to represent New Zealand in the conference of colonial delegate’on the rrhbit pest. He will probably consent.

The annual report of the WellingtonManawmu Railway Comp-my shows that the gross proceeds of 28.807 acr-*s of laud sold amounts to £57 294 7a Id, and ihere still remain* in the hands of the company an area of 210,691 acres for future aid-. In addition the c imp ny has still to receive from Qovrnm-nt, io fu 'foment of their contract, land to the va ue of £29,805. The gross proceeds of the tr ffio during the year amounted to £46,590 6s 10'. The returns for 13 wee ks from Ist December, 1887, t 29tb February, 1888, in comparison with the corresponding period of the preceding year, show an increase of £219 a week. The working account for the year shows a profit of about £17„000 towards the payment of interest on debentures.

M. Dumas, who has been running tho “ Kestaorant Francais,” at Wellington L believed to have left that town. He left a note that his books should be handed to bis creditors, and stated that he could no longer carry on business. He is believed to have gone to Auckland. Thomas McCloskyand William Bradley, jockeys, have been sentenced at Greymouth to two months’ imprisonment in Hokitika gaol for using obscene language in a public place. On Tuesday Alexander Dunbar was committed for trial at Christchurch on a ■charge of unlawfully offering £SO to Mr T. Brydone, manager at Dunedin for th. New Zealand and Auatra'ian Land Company, io abstain from bidding for a section on February 29tb. The charge was ba e J oo certain letters written to Mr Brydone by Dunbar who pleaded ignorappe pf the, law on the subject. Ed meads," the landlord of the Tuapeke Mouth Hotel, has been fined £5 and 47' coats for selling liquor on bund y, and th conviction orolt red to be endorsed on h - license. The evidence showed that Ijqui.r had been sold only to Mcßory (who is charged with the murder of Ceunell) aim to Walsh, both of whom were travellers, but they had shouted for others...