INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1758, 3 July 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

S.-uil Samuel has gone to the Hot Lakes district.

Anumbtr of Ir’ah ladies resident in Auckland bavo had prepared a very artistic greenstone piper-knife, which is to be presented to Mr M loarlhur, M.P., w ho recently delivered a lecture on 11 Home Rule ” in Auckland,

It lias now been resolved Unit the Auckland football loam will not visit tli« Scutli this season.

The inquest on Captain Ross, at Auckland, resulted in a verdict of: “ death from natural causes.”

Archdeacon Stock, who is leaving for Rngland, has presented the Wellington City Council with the nucleus of a tire public library in the shape of 1,75 valuable books.

At Wellington, a woman named Nellie Hurley was, on Friday, committed for trial on a chirga of stealing a gold watch and chain, value £25, and a pocket-book containing £6. Very important ovidencs was given at Wellington on Friday afternoon in the Renata Kawepo will case by the Rev. Archdeacon Williams, of Hawkos Kay. The witness was u personal friend of the deceased chief. The testimony which he gave before th* Supreme Oomt went to show that, just before lie die I, Renata informed him find his property was lo go to Mrs Donnelly, his grandniece, and not •'o Broughton, The case is expected to finish nn Tuesday, Bom« anxiety is foil respecting the Americtn haique J. D. Fetors, foDnnodii. She left Now York on Firbtuary 14th and is t therefore, 137 days out,

A Maori woman named Hikorang', ag-d 60 years, with her boy Kahuti, were burned to death at Ohaoawsi, Bay of Islands, on Tuesday last, owing to the burning of the whsro in which they wor ■ sleeping.

At Palmerston Mortl>, on Siturday.a man mimed Charles Henry ffoiderly, n basilicas -is a saddler at Feeding, ari l who recently filed a petition of hank'np'cy, wa* arrested, as it was alleged ho was about (o laava the colony. At Dunedin on Saturday thu f >-■! hail mutcli Dunedin V. Union was drawn. Kaikorai boat the Pirates by 5 point* to 3 ; Taieri best the Alhambra by 3 points to nil ; the University best Ztngari by 4 to nothing, and Montecillo b»(<t the High School by 4 to nothing. The surrey of tho New Plymouth harbour on Friday was made by a divar named Bell, under the Collector of On 'o n J supervision, but Messrs J. 0. George, Rhind, Captain Holdford, and others, .were out in a boat looking on. Ho failed to find any rock in the harbour—though fee pierced the sand in som# places three feet he failed to find any sign of a •rocky bottom. The Hawea’s breaking up so quickly in smooth water suggests that something must have been wrong with the vessel or she would not have gone to pieces in the manner she has. At the seventh annual meeting of the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Christchurch, on Saturday, the directors’ report stated that the balance for the year was £4540. A dividend of 7 per cent was declared with a bonus of 3 per cent on the called-up capital; 20 per cent was written off tho machinery and otifce furniture; £IOOO added to the reserve fund, and the balance carried forward.