INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1762, 12 July 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Eustace frank Allen was committed for trial at Chrislcburch on Monday, on a charge of forging a cheque on the Union Bank, Timaru, for £ls 10m. Ha signed the name of Mr W. Grant to the cheque. Misß Edith Mary Rhodes, second daughter of the lute Mr E. H. Rhodes, was married at Meriv:»le Church 00 Monday, to Mr Allister Clarke, of Victoria. Th* Rev. T. Flavell performed the ceremony, which was witnessed by a crow Jed and fashionable congregation. Mr C. J. Pownall, a well kiown fiaancial and commission agent at Wellington, died on S«turday night aged seventy. George MoCombe, olios John McGuire, on a charge of forging the nam* of James McMenamen, sheep farmer, to*chequ» for £6 10s, was committed for trial at Wellington on Monday. In the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Menday, the case Barnes v. Drs. Gillon and Johnson was heard. Tha claim was £BOO as damages for wrongful treatment by defendants while in their charge in the. Wellington Hospital in 1879. Afier hear-' ing the evidence Mr Justice Richmond decided there was no evidence to go to the jury, und plaiatiff was nonsuited. Two cases of typhoid were reported to the Timaru Board of Health on Monday Bight, one fatal. A drain through asm" JI paddock was suggested by the health j officor as a possible source of danger. A Councillor slated that cows were depictured there, and their mi k sold io the town, though the water they had to drink in the drain was "as full of typhoid us it could stick."

The Timaru Borough overdraft has been reduced by retrenchments from £I6OO to £3OO.

The ques'ion of the employment; of Kanaka labourers on board the s.e. Richmond, which has bsen agitated for som* tirna, has ut length been selt'ed by tue owners ot the vet-ail resolving to diap°.n<e with Kanak* labour, and a crew of labourers of the Seamen s Union have signed to serve on the steamer. At Wellington a fireman belonging to the steamer lonic, who had be in detected io smuggling tobacco, was fiaed £9. The Wellington Operative Boot Manufacturing Company have decidad to wiud up. Since the commencement it has been a losing concern. The total liabilities are about £3OO.

There ia no further development of the reported garrotting and robbery on Sunday night at Wellington. All sorts of rumours are afloat. The police have the matter in hand, and as they intend to probe it to the end, an interesting st quel will probably develope. Cousins, the man who says he was assaulted, was married oq Tuesday.

George Kyrrison, William Batchelor, and T. H. Baichelor, were committed for trial »t Rangiora on Tuesday on a further charge of stealing shaep boloog ng to Mr John Vallance, of Mount Grey. Ttie Canterbury Frozen Meit Corapaay have received (sufficient guarantees of stock to be shipped in 1889-90 at Id per lb fre'ght to enable them to open negotiations with the shipping companies, Mr Arthur Nicholls, bro'herof Mr J. C. Nicholls, of Kuriheka Station, was drowned in the Island strejm, neir o>maru, on Tuesday, The body hus been recovered. Heavy rains accompanied by strong north-east wind prevailed in Otago, throughout the whole of Tuesday. A slip occurred on the uortheru railway about Purakanui. The eDgine of tho northern express train was thrown off the lino, but no one was hurt. It appears that the express train was going dead slow when thb slip occurred and struck the engine, which, strango to say fell towards tho inner balk. There was another biuk at the place, which was 40 yards north of what is kuomn as "The Ciffa," The engine was a good deal damaged. One closed waggon also left the line. The passengers were not greatly alarmed, although, as some.stones kept falling, they were somewhat anxious. A train was despatched from Waitati, only three mileß distant, but the passeogers with one exception decided to wait for the train from Dunerlin and complete their journey. Ths cowcatcher was not touched, showing that the slip fell just as the train approached.