INTERPROVINCAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1743, 29 May 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCAL NEWS.

A fatal accident occurred at Hokitika on Thursday afternoon to John Foster, a carter plying between Hokitika and Ross. Deceared was descending the hill leading to D'ep Cr«"k bridge, near Ritnu, when he fell, and the wheel of the heavy loaded dray passed over his chest crushing him fe-irfu ly. He was shortly afterwards picked up and conveyed to Rimu. Medical assistance was sent for, bat he ! breathed his last ten minutes before the doctor arrived. Deceased leaves a wife and ten children.

Three Dunedin publicans have bean fined for Sinday trading. They were trapped by constables in plain clothes. At a meeting of the Forbury Park Company, Dunedin, a dividend of 4 per cent for the year was declared. A discovery ot gold is reported in a gully about midway between Blenheim and Picton. The gold is nuggety and of splendid quality, Auriferous i< dicatlons areaaii to have been traced a distance of seven miles.

Michael Kenny fell overboard while sailing a boat in Kaipara Harbor, near Helensville, on Thursday, and was drowned. ; It ia found that there are three breaks in the cable. In relaying, it is expected to aave four miles, as at present there is a large bend, which which will be left out when the cable is relaid.

The settlers at Thornbury, Southland, have decided to ask the Government to forthwith stop the importation of stoats, ferret*, weasels, or other vermin, which are censidered detrimental to settlement and ineffectual in eradicating the rabbits. Seventy-two men of whom sixty-two are married, with families ranging fnun one to ten children, have applied for relief work at Invercargill. The wages are 4s 6d for married, and 3» 6d for sing emeh.

A good seam p£ coal has bean struck on the property of F. Brunton, Rocklands, Fortrose, at a depth of 132 feet from the surface.

The shop and stock of Messrs Shetland sod Co., Chemists, Auckland, were destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. The large warehouse of Meaars L. D. Nathan and Co. also suffered considerably. At the Dunedin races on Saturday, the Selling Hurdles, of 75 sovs, was won by Trapper, the Novel Race, of 70 sovs, by Doubtful, the Winter Trot, of 60 sovs, by Rose; the St. Clair Welter Handicap, of 85 sots, by La Rose, and the Consolation, of 50 sova by Snapnhot. fhe Bulk of New Z-aland have shipped from Hokitika 17550 z. sdwt. 3gr. of gold, valued at £7620.