INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1788, 11 September 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At a meeting of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Club, it was announced that a legal opinion had been given to the effect that the club could not criminally prosecute their defaulting treasurer. Late on Tuesday night a small house in Teviot street, Invercargill, owned by a young naan named Rudolph Eadka, occupied by Mrs Tozzi and three children, was noticed to be oa fire. Some passersby put out the flames after a little damage was done, and on the police examining the premises they found a quantity of cotton waste, saturated with kerosene and partly burned, under the wallplate. On Friday night the owner, Eadka, was arrested and charged with wilfully setting fire to the house with intent to defraud the Standard Insurance Company, who had an insurance of £4O on the building. At Wellington oa Friday, William Agnew, of Otago, was bound over to keep the peace for two months on a charge of grossly insulting the Hon. G. Fisher. The wife of the accused was recently similarly dealt with for annoying the Premier.

News from the Mahakipawa is rather exciting. The Havelock correspondent of (he Marborougb Titles says that gold has been discovered at Rocky Creek, Fern Flat, Kailuno, also at Wheadon’s Talley, Mahakipawa. The Ficton correspondwni of the same journal wiring at. eight o’clock on Friday night, says :—“The mail boat has ]ust arrived, bringing news from Mahakipawa. J. Fuller, from tire goldfields to-day, reporls that a very rich reef has been found by Annear and Hill at the top of the right band branch. Lumps of gold are visible. A great rush and excitement has been caused, and a large number of claims have been pegged out,” Mr Pearce, the Waitara undertaker, writes to the New Plymouth papers with respect to the sensational articles re Captain Bailey being alive. He says the reports of the phenomena of tbe eyes opening and shutting are untrue, that the body was perfectly cold and stiff, and symptoms of decomposition had set in. He adds—“ How any sane person could imagine deceased showed symptoms of life ia beyond my comprehension.” Mr Gordon Furlong, of Feilding, challenges Professor Sulmond, author of the fl Reign of Grace,” to meet him in Dunedin to bold a three or four days’ discussion on Bible subjects. Further, so that the Professor should bo no loser, Mr Furlong undertakes to remunerate him at the rate of £5 each day for his lime. At Blenheim on Saturday a station hand, aged about 35, attempted suicide by drowning at the wharf. He was collared by Steward Warren, of the s.s. Kanieri, and given into custody. Ho refuses to give his name. It is a cnse of delusional insanity. He imagines he is pursued.