INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1756, 28 June 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The charge of murder against Mr- 1 Wi'liam*,! of Cromwell, was dismissed. ■:

■i At Auckland on Monday two men, Wm. Noble and J. Stewiirt. were charged wit It the robbery of £lO2 IBs 9 1,-property of P. Brodie, proprietor of .the, Naval and Family Hotel. ,Tho case was, remanded for a week. . ;

The body of a tn-m was Wind in the MatnUraTiyer on Monday. It is supposed to be that of a man named Jamieson, who dis!pprj»rad .trom Goro nftar cnm'mittiog -anassaul) on (April 3rd, and - whoso- coat was after. Yard a fqlindin a< hedg". , The body was fol'y (Jressed. except |he coal, j

. 'Meeting*,of-ratepayers in- th*i -Wnimex Pliiios railway diotriot weye held at R verrdale m and Lu.maden,,pn. .Saturday, night, ,'when it was resolved to »sk the, Government, b-.fnre'impoßing rates, proposed by the Uuit'i'lct'"Railways 1 Act Amendmont Bili, to snpply a etatsnient of acconnin bf the r-iil way; ihp ratepayers being of opinion ihat services w.«re charged to the lino which have no connection with it ; nnrl,that,it is not credited with ail it, earns.' It was stated that, wool could be soul from) Ltimsdeh to Dunedin via lov'rcirgil! for t-4i- le'si per than if sent across to Gore by the Waiinoa line, which saves fifty-two miles of ravage. 1 1 A p-imphlcl isstied by the New Zealand Antimony Gompany, London, was received ,by J^stimail. Attached to tit is a memorandum, ;in which it is stated that the disectprn have .inslruotitd ih«‘ company’s solicitors in New Z'aLnd jo con'est »n ni'paid balance of £4090, to todgo a claim. Mgainat the vendor company now in ■liquidation for £BOOO dam-ges, for not/ ■keeping the mine-wo'king while the > n<?w company was fi ia’ed, and -thereby ' reducing tha .dividends of the company, attaching in the meantime the purchase m-'tuy which i« stiil in the hands of tbo oftijial liquidator*.