INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1721, 7 April 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A cottage in Powderham street, .New Plymouth, near Government Buildings, was burnt on Thursday. It was n>t iusured.

Major Jervoia, who has been reoalled to his regiment, left with his wife and family by the R.M.S. Rimutaka on Thursday. The wife of Mr Downes, manager of the Bank of New South Wales, New Plymouth, died suddenly of apoplexy on Thursday evening. Arthur Scoullur, who was lost in the bush at Wellington on Good Friday was found on Wednesday morning three miles north of the Shannon railwoy alatioo. When found he was light-headed, but is recovering.

There are twenty-three charges set down on the criminal cilondar at tbe Wellington Supreme Court, which opens on Monday. This includes charges of cbild murder against a Chinaman and his wife, arson, indecent assault, and perjury. The Burnham Industrial School children with their band and teachers held their annual picnic yesterday. They arrived in Lyttelioo by the 10.50 a.m. train and embarked ou biurd the tug Lyttelton, which was kindly placed at their disposal by the Harbor Beard, and prooeeded to Pigeon Bay. At a public meeting held at Hamilton, Auckland, on Wednesday, it was decided "That in tl>e interest* of agriculture it is expedient that local Boards of Agriculture should be established throughout tbe colony, and that tho counties of Waipa, Waikito, Raglan, and Piuko and boroughs of Hamilton and Oambridgo unite in petitioning Parliament to pass an Act incorporating the naid counties and the two boroughs in a Board of Agriculture for their oistric."

The elopement of a Dutchman, rejoicing in the name of Hans Peter Christian Hansen, with a carried woman named Ooniptou, which caused some comments some time back, was the subject of an action for divorce at the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Thursday afternoon. Edward Compton appeared as petitioner, Jesuit) Brown Hardy Oompton uppeared is respondent, and Hans Peter Hansen as corespondent. Evidence was given, and a decree nisi grunted, to he made absolute at the exp'iy of three months. A bmd of ponpatio Maoris, 70 strong, belonging to Te Kooti's tribe, arrived at Masterton on Thursday. They are vicitiog the different Maori settlements oi a religious and political cru-adp. Their politics are Freetrade in Kaori lands and a right to do as you please, and their religion is a bastard tort of Mormonism. The MnstTto i natives are amused at their antics, but shako tboir beads, annl the total result of tboir proselytising efforts will be a largo consumption uf eels and potatoes. For some time past there has been steady enquiry privately from Melbourne for tho offer of good promising mining ventures for tbe Melbourne market, and on Thursday a citizen of Auckland received cable messages from a wealthy firm in Mnlbonrne instructing him to organise and send out an experienced party, and to peg out a good area of country should any rtefs of promising appearance be discovered. The person from whom the cable emanated has evidently received information about the upper Thames district, which he deems of importance. It is probable that the prospecting party will at once be sent out. A middle-aged man named George Child, painter, living in Stafford Avenue, Dunedin, was arrested on Thursday on a charge of attempting to murder his wife. It was alleged he went home the worse for driak, and his wife left him about midnight and went to bed. flue was awoke by finding her husband fumbling about the bed, and when she noticed him she found he had a knife in his hand. He seized her by the head and attempted to draw the knife across her throat. She succeeded in seizing the knife, but not before ho had inflicted a slight wound under her chin. In the struggle, the blade came out of the handle. The woupd is of the slightest character. On being brought up at the R.M. Court, Child was discharged, his wife declining to swear that he had a knife in his hand when he assaulted her.

At the Supreme Court, Dunedin oa W«doesday, the charge agaiast James Mcßory of murder was thrown out, but > true bill waß found for manslaughter. Ah Chow was sentenced to two yean.' hard labor for larceny of lead. Wang Kew Hing, on two charges of burglary, was sentenced to six years' peoal servitude. Oa TLursday, Joseph Kennedy and Michael Power, young men, pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking into and stealing from a shop; and John Oliirnpman and William Norman were found guilty of the same offence. Sentence was deforced. J. L. Reunie, the Canadian doctor, was acquitted ou a charge of indecent assault. Yesterday, J no. Chapman, breaking into n simp, was sentenced to 12 months ; Joseph Kennedy, ooe month; Norman and T. Power, same offence, were placed on probation for 12 months, and oach ordered to pay £5 towards expenses of, prosecution ; Peter Jamioson, convicted ' of arson at Bendigo, near Cromwell, ) sentence deferred, I

k considerable arer at Coromnodel bai lioen disposed of to an Australian syndicate, through the instrumentality of Mr J. H. Witherford, who recently visited Sydney. A boy aix years old, bod of Mr Giflen, platelayer at Doyleston, was accidentally Licked on t>*e head by it horse wandering ;tt largo on Tuesday. The little fellow's !ir\ad was cut open, and doubts are enterUined regarding his recovery, At a meeting of contributors to the llliodea Memorial Convalescent Home at tJhristcburch, it wna deoided to open i* aa a private institution. The provisional committee ha#e £570 in hand, which if citimated sufficient to carry on for one .year. The c'aims of tbe homo to be made » public institution are to be vigorously I.Tease^.

At Roxburgh on Wednesday, Isaac Uhnrlesworth, an sarated water manuf icturer, offered to give a miter named Barney O'Neill a ride in bis trap. While waiting for him Charleaworth made some r mark about O'NeiU'ei daughter, and the 1 tter retorted with some other remark, when Charleaworth seized a gun and fired at O'Neill. The shot struck him on the hand and face, the former beiug perforated and the face almost reduced to pulp, O'Neill is in a very low state, but is expected to pull through. Charleaworth was arrestod, It is almost certain that two men lost their lives in the New River harbor on Tuesday morning. Mr Hatch's schooner Awarua wan lying 6ome miles below the) town, wailing a slant to sail for Macquarrie'a Islands. On Monday afternoon Hurry LudsoD, seaman, and Andrew Scott, the cook, took the schooner'a boat to go to I Sa.ndy Point for water. They left ihe ship's boat there and taking another went to Invercargill, where they were seen in several hotels during the evening. Tbey were on board a vessel at the jetty after midnight, nnd were under the influence of liquor. Shortly after they left lo go to tke boat and have not been since. The boat was found empty.