INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1783, 30 August 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

An ab'e seaman named Frederick Olsen fell from the,crosstreas of the ketch Reliancel at Turn i, near the Thames, on Saturday afternoon, sustaining injuries to the head and arm. "He.was taken to the Hospital,’but is badly injured. While at Auckland recently Captain Hayward arranged wi h the Kamo Coil Company to supply SOOO tons of coa l from the Kamo mine at Whmgi-rei for the Zeal.mdi-i, the following mail stamper. Dounia Egan, a well-known station hand, was found dead on Monday morning in'' the ’ stable''of the Coinmeicial Hotel at Blenhi im. Id the Supreme Court, Wellington, Mr Justice Richmond give judgment m Bngg v.. Smith and other*. The action, was to recover -he value'of two,promissory notes given by tlie firm. It. was a test ao ion and judgment went for th» 'defendants with cos's., Several nuggets of some weight have been found at the Mahakipawa diggings. A large number of men are on the field, but there is nothing as yet to justify the rush. The. Auckland City Council have' effect'd further reductions ic the s.i’arios of tl-eir employees, and r«so ved that the emp’oyment of stonebreakors be d s continued on the Ist .November next. The work of atouehrr aking is being done by destitute people, and assumes the form of relief work. In the Goinpe n sntion Court in the case Ui hardaon v. Minia'er of Public Works, claim £ISOO, for land tikeu for railwiy purposes and severance of water, before Judge Richmond md Messrs Horton and Lif&'.on assessors, £3OO without an order aa to cos’s, was awarded. Gnorge Curie w s comra'tt d for trial at Rangiora on a (h itgo of ste .ling seven head of cattlo belonging to Mr W.lsoo F sher at East Oxford. David Bowers, a settler at Stooy Greek, Otago, was found dead near his residence on Saturday evening, it is supposed fiom heat t disease. A party of miners at Mahikapawa [Mahakipawa] have found 3lbs of gold, worth about £140 ; in four feet square of their ground. The gold is all coarse, and one specimen with quartz weighs over 4 ozs, and the largest nugget contains over 14[o]zs of pure gold. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court closed at Napier on Tuesday. The following sentences were passed :—Frank Chii«tie, an old 'offender, five years for burglary ; Thomas Warne for the same offe .ee one year ; Arthur Wmker, a youth who had several previous convictions recorded against ti im, two years for hnr-e sfoa intr. A fn-d Br c<>, another youth, ire 'ved a son-) r sentence for stealing and forging o cheejue.