INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1724, 14 April 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Three cottf ges were destroyed by fir* at Mount Eden, Auckland, on Wednesday. The insurances amount to £6OO. Forty tailors hart struck work at Auckland in resistance of the propoied reduction of wages by 2d per hour from the fojmer rate of lOd per hour. Arthur Ryan, who was accidentally thrown while riding lngomar over a hurdle on Tuesday morning at Amberley, lingered abeut four hoars and died from his injuries On Thursday morning Edward Currie, who was committed to Addington gaol on Tuesday for drunkenness, strangled him. self in the pidded cell with a strip torn from his shirt. He was a shoemaker, 41 years old. Mr William Northcroft, an old settler of naar forty years standing, died at New Plymouth on Wedneiday night, aged 81. He was formerly Provincial Secretary and for many years was Secretary the Education Board.

A man' named Edmund Cardinly was found drowned in the railway resorvoir at Featheratoo, Wellington, on Thursday morning. Hie clothea were placed on the edge «f the water. It ia supposed he committed suicide. On Thursday morning the body of a man named McAlisUr, about 50 years old, was found floating in the harbor atLytUlton naar the graving dock. Dtceased wag laet seen alive at Lyttalton about 5.30. p.m. on the day whin the steamer Coptic sailed, March 21 st. He was then drunV and wae going his ship with another sailor.

Captain Ferris, of the stranded barque Weathersfield, arrived in Wellington on Wednesday. The vessel ia pretty well iu the same position as previously reported, and she is now being dismantled. No information has been received from the owners at Home as to whether the barque is insured. It is not known whether an official inquiry will be held. At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Thursday, Keuben|Bind was found guilty of arson and sentenced to 21 years' hard labor, d. H. J. C. Duncan, who informed against Hind, pleaded guilty to burglary, and was sentenced to aevan years' hard labor. Jamei White, charged with being oonoerned ia the lawny of a yacht, was acquitted ; Riobard White, who had been found guilty of the offence, was sentenced to six months' hard labcr. William John McKavanagh pleaded guilty to two charges of embenlement, and was remanded for sentence until the probation officer's report uai boen received.