INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1732, 3 May 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A private letter received from London states the s.s. Triumph has been sold there for £IB,OOO.

The s.s. Wairarapa, which left for Sydney, took away 187 passengers from Auckland, including 19 steerage. 25 passengers from the south were also on board.

All the machinery in connection with the wharves at Wellington will shortly he driven by a hydraulic power plant. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, on Tuesday, Martha Trench was sentenced to one month’s hard labour, and John Connor to 12 months’ hard labour, for having received goods stolen by two young sons of Trench, and a lad named William Gosling, The boys were sent to the Industrial School. The evidence showed that they were in the habit of pilfering articles from shop doors, and taking them to Mrs Trench or Connor. Mrs Trench, it was proved, had been receiving charitable aid while she had £36 in the savings bank. An attempt is to be made to float the May Queen, now on shore at Lyttelton Heads. The directors of the National Insurance Company have declared an interim diyidend of 10 per cent per annum for the half-year ended 31st March.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Greymouth, on Monday, McParlane, a storekeeper, was charged with a breach o£ the 27th by-law made by the Minister of Public Works under authority of the 144th section of Public Works Act 1882, by placing certain explosive goods on a railway train without specifying particulars on the consignment note. The magistrate held that the Minister had no power under section 144 to make any by-law imposing a penalty for such an offence, and that by-law 27 was ultra vires. The information was dismissed, Albert Martin, 16 years, died from injuries through being jammed between railway waggons at Green Island, near Dunedin, on the 30th. All the cargo has been landed from the stranded ship Pleione. The man Thomas Rudd, who had been missing at Wellington for nearly a week, has turned up right.