INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1754, 23 June 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The representative in Auckland of the timber syndicate, Mr G. Holdship, is now engaged ip completing the purchase of various timber properties,, and having stock taken preparatory to handing them over to the new company. It is proposed to allot as many shares in New Zealand as possible. At the Supreme Coart, Wellington, an application for dissolution of marriage, Thurston v. Thurston, was granted on the grounds of the wife’s adultery with one Fletcher.

At Christchurch the post mortem and analyses have revealed the presence of arsenic ini the stomach of William Haste ‘Wilson,- wh<s died suddenly on Tuesday. The inquest was adjourned; for enquiry as to where. the arsenic was procured. An old naan named .Peter Garrity died at the Christchurch .Hb.spital on Tuesday evening from the effuctfc of an accident which befell him oh May 18th. Ho i was driving along Papanui Road ' when the falling of a tree caused his horse to shy and he was thrown out of the vehicle, both legs being broken. The Shaw Savin and Albion Company’s Coptic left Plymouth for Auckland on 1 Saturday last. The cable-repairing steamer Sherrard Osborne is again at work re-laying that portion 1 bf the cable which she hns repaired, After completing the laying of this portion she will pick up a further section and take it to Wellington for repair. The Masons of Wellington Lodge honoured the memory ot their late brother the Emperor of Germany, by holding a “ Lodge of Sorrow”. The ceremony was a most impressive one. The bank teller Porter, who absconded from Cambridge, was arrested at Napier on Wednesday. His defalcations amount to £l5O.

Sir George Grey opened the Wairarnpa Exhibition at Mnsterlon on Thursday afternoon. He left town by, the early train, and on arrival at Masterfcon railway station he was met by 500 people. The Mayors of Masterton and Greylown were present. The volunteers formed a guard of honour. The Rev. Mr Rowse read an address of welcome. Sir ( George declared the exhibition open. The ceremony was a great success. The building was crowded! and the weather was splendid. The dead body of a new born child was found on Thursday morning in the room of a girl named Jane Morris, a servant 'at Kaiapoi, who had evidently just been confined. . :

In die Supreme Court, Christchurch, on Thursday, a verdict was given; for defendants in the case ofEenhuam v. New .Zealand, Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, a claim for £3OOO, for damages alleged to have been caused to plaintiff’s property : at Kowai Bush through the negligence of defendant’s servants' in lighting a fire at Mount Torlesse station on January 4th. At the enquiry into the wreck of the steamer Hawoa, at Wellington, on Wednesday, the captain and chief officer said that the wreck was caused ; by the vessel striking a rock, and that it was impossible that she should have struck on her own anchor. Mr Bell, who appeared for the Customs, intimated that it was his intention to cal! direct evidence that the vessel had struck her own anchor, and he asked for an adio-urnment until Monday, which was granted, -j