INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1780, 23 August 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A tp ,r g"'m was received at Te Aroha, Auckland, by Nikoriwa, a Native attending a tangi, stating that a young man, named Jerry, son-in-law of l Matthew Tcpuki, had been murdered in Hikutari bush. The body of the youth was found by a number of Natives, who proceeded to the scCne, and was taken to the Thames. [A telegram to hand on Tuesday says the statement that Jerry, a native, son-in-law of Matthew Tepuke, had been murdered at Paeora, is found to be incorrect. He was injured by an axe falling on his head. He is still alive.] Captain Wing, late harbor-master at Onehunga, died on Sunday. He came to the colony in 1841. . A mysterious theft is reported to have taken place from the Supreme Court law library, Wellington. On Thursday evenrng the custodian p'aced the sum of £l3 in a cupboard in the library, which he locked, retaining the key in his possession. Next morning the money was nrssing. The lock was found to be intact, and it is supposed it was opened by means of a duplicate key. A preliminary meeting was held at Dunedin on Monday evening to consider the proposal cf Government to mike a tunnel at the Purikanui c'iffsfor the railway line. The general opinion was that a tunnel would be useless except to blind people to •he danger un'ess far more than £IO,OOO were spent on it, A sub-committee was appointed to consider the question of alternative routes and to gather information to be submitted to a subsequent public meeting. A three-year-old son of Thomas Casey, of Wairoognma, Auckland, was terribly burned on Sunday afternoon. He was left in 'he house and got playing with the fire. He died on Monday night. There is no doctor within thirty miles of the place at present. Joseph Taylor, owner of one of the beach cluitis tuar Qreymouth, is sending about a ton of black sand to (he Mebourne Exhibition as a sample. It was taken out of a newly sunk piddock in the presence of about a dozen gentlemen. Very rich gold was seen on every pebble. A load and a half taken up is estimated to yield 3ozl A payable lead of gold has been struck on Fairlm!’s dairy famn, within a short distance of Greymouth._ The claims are working on terms, a stipulation being a 10 per cent royalty on the gold, but the owner will notallow any more cla'ms to be « orked. It is thought there is ground enough for hundreds of men. There is much grumbling in consequence of men not being allowed to wevk.