INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1750, 14 June 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At tho Supreme Court, Auckhnd, on Monday, Henry Smith and John Kelly were eoquitted ob a charge of arson at Kapakapaka. The Grand Jury fonnd no bill in the casl* against H.vT. Rbwe, charged with indecent assault, and be was therefore discharged. John Middleton, employed temporarily at Hillereden Station, Marlborough, h« been committed for trial for stealing \ a watch and chain, ring, money, etc., frojm a * bare.- Ihe property was that of one of the station! hands. ;,', t , i The main school at Lyttelton ha« been closed owiog to the prevalence of diptheria in that township. : " The South Waimakariri River Board have reduced the wages of their day laborers from 7fl to 6» per day. ■ Three Berious accidents were admitted to the Masterton Hospital on Monday. Arthur Ponhien, a jockey, whilst leading a draught ih'ors'e, got his leg broken by a kick. /•AbrahaiH- Fielding, whilst 'pig shooting at Braocepetb on Monday evening, fell over some rocks, his gin went off and the bullet passed through both the right bone,. • Fielding was found hours J afterwarcls by a mate, : lying in' "A blbbd; t)r Hoskihg arrived fDorh' MasfertGn;'!dMta*ce; thirty miles, and dressed thai, wounds, and the injured.mas, was conveyed on his matW shoulders threemiles,andth^bceby brake. Anderson .Beachman, of, Msnagamahoe sav/mill9,j was struck by ; a large splinter from a machine, which entered the aide of his itye 1 add' passed ' underneath to the brainU' He''! was chloroformed at > the hospital and it took the united efforts of Drs Hosking and Milne <to extract the wood. The sufferers are progressing favourably.