INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1768, 26 July 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A man named Charles Saunders, aged 78, was found dead in bed at his house in Wakefield street, Auckland, on Monday morning. A public meeting, convened by the chairmen of 14 road districts south of A uckland was held on Saturday afternoon at the Otira school house, Fapatoitoi, when it was resolved that the taxation of the colony is entirely out of proportion to the means of colonial producers and unduly handicapped them in the world’s markets. It was also resolved : —(1) that in the opinion of this meeting all Acts shielding the Civil Service from' Parlaimentary control should be repealed; (2) that the system of granting retiring allowances, compensation a'lowances, or bonuses, should be discontinued; (3) that the question of pensions should be reconsidered with a view of modifying the conditions upon which they have been granted in the direction of reducing their amounts to meet the financial necessities of the colony and also to bring them into harmony with the increased purchasing power of money. Norman by Fitzgerald and Nellie Thompson, who keep a cigar shop in Fmerson street, Napier, were on Monday' fined for sly grog selling. Fitzgerald (two offences) was fined £45, and the woman £25, in default one month’s imprisonment on each charge. A young man named James Douglas, shepherd at A. D. Bell’s Shag Yalley station, Dunback, Otago, was killed on Saturday. His horse took fright and bolted, and Douglas mounting another went after it. Jt s is supposed that he came into collision with the post of a fence, as he was found lying dead with his neck broken. At Dunedin on Monday night a motion was carried at a public meeting affirming the desirability of completing the Otago Central line by a private company. An amendment by Sir E. Stout, that the work should be done by the Government, was negatived.

In the Divorce Court, Wellington, on Monday, the case of Fry v. Fry and Biltou was heard. 'Jhe parties live at Featherstone, and it was the husband’s petition for a dissolution of marriage on the grounds of the wife’s adultery wi h the co-respondent. His H-mor reserved his decision, and remarked that what he had to consider was whether the petitioner was a man who should have the honour of his wife in his keeping, and therefore was ho entitled to relief by the court so that he might be enabled to marry again. Considering an application under the Lunacy Act at Auckland on Tuesday, at the Supreme Court, Mr Justice Gillies said he knew from his own personal knowledge that there were many lunatics in the asylum who had no right to be there. People should be confined in an asylum only when dangerous to themselves or others. -1. W. Lee, a Chinese fruiterer, was burnt out at Wellington on Tuesday morning.

A single man named Jeremiah Maloney, was killed on the railway near Palmerston North on Monday night. It appears that he was crossing the line when he was caught by the engine, which was shunting. One of his legs was cut off and the other broken, besides which he received internal injuries. He died four or five hours after the accident.

The body of James Bruce Wallace was found on Tuesday afternoon on the foreshore at Te Aro, Wellington. There was a large ugly gash oyer the temple and other minor bruises on the face. It is believed that they were caused by his falling off the breastwork. Deceased was an old and wellknown colonist, and was aged 69. He was last seen alive on Monday afternoon, and he then expressed the intention of seeing some friend off to Melbourne, On luesday afternoon Mr H. H. Fitzherbert, solicitor, accompanied by Mr G. Eobertson, as interpreter, went up to the Terrace Gaol, Wellington, for the purpose of taking the necessary steps for the issue of a writ of habevs corpus on behalf of the Italian prisoner Gasparini, w r ho is at present in custody on an order from the A cling-Governor for extradition to New Caledonia The principal grounds upon which the writ will be applied for are that the prisoner is a subject of His Majesty the King of Italy ; that the evidence adduced against him did not, according to the law of England, prove that he had been convicted of an extradition crime within the jurisdiction of the Eepublic of France, and that he had escaped from legal confinement; that the documents produced' were not properly authenticated ; that His Excellency fc-ir James Pendergast exceeded his jurisdiction in admitting in evidence statements alleged to havebeen made by the prisoner to the police constable, inasmuch as the same were made in consequence of an inducement, having reference to an extradition charge, held out to him by a person of authority; and that it was not shown that the treaty between Her Majesty and the President of the French Eepubiic of the 14th August, 1887, had not been terminated. The Commissioner of Police, Wellington, has received information from Inspector McGovern relating to the Native outbreak to the effect that both sides have now arranged peacefully until the Native Minister shall arrive from Wellington. The wounded men are apparently better than they were.