INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1764, 17 July 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The Governor left for Sydney yesterday. Mr Samuel Eevans, the oldest journalist in the colony, died at Greytown on Saturday, afternoon. Tip to 1 o’clock on Saturday, 27,500 shares in the newly formed kauri syndicate had been applied for in Auckland. Mr F. H. Cook, of the firm of Thomas Cook and Sons, tourist agents, has arrived in Melbourne and will shortly leave for New Zealand. A telegram from Invercargill says as the weather has been remarkably fine for weeks, farming operations are well advanced, and in no former season has so much grain been forwarded for shipment up to tho same date. Lambing has commenced in some districts. Curi and Gasparini, the French escapees, arrived'at Wellington in custody from Auckland and were lodged in the Terrace Gaol. They were arrested upon warrant applied for by the French consul for their extradition under the treaty existing between France and England. They will be brought before the judges this week, but in accordance with the extradition laws it will be necessary to remand them for 15 days before an extradition warrant can be issued, in order to enable their friends to move a writ of habeas corpus if sufficient cause can be shown. A poor old man named Allan Spencer was found in a starving condition in a empty house at Invercargill and taken to the Charitable Home, from which it has been found necessary to remove him to the hospital, it having been ascertained that his feet are badly frost bitten. It is supposed that the unfortunate man, who is in a melancholy state of mind and body, must have been a considerable time on the road from Queenstown, and that he had been exposed to a severe frost in the higher altitudes.