INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1795, 27 September 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A warrant has been issued at Wellington for the arrest of «n ex-pub'ican from the Upper Hutc, who it is alleged, obtained a large sum of money by means of fa'se pretences. Accused left Wellington some d?ys ago. A settler nam'd Rudolph Ritter, a German, who has been residing at Three Kings, Auckland, is reported as missing. He went out nearly a fortnight ago to look for a horse which had strayed, and he has not yet returned to hi,. homo, but it is almost impossible for anyone to be lost in (hat vicinity. Whilst excavaing a foundation for a house at Coxe s Creek, Auckland, a man named Edgar discovered an auriferous patch of ground. Aqu ntifcy of the stuff has been analysed, and found to contain gold. A scabbing affray occurred at Port Underwood on Saturday, Edwin Ba’dick stabbed iiis brother William with a shea h knife in the side. It arose oat of a family quarrel. The exact extent of the injury is not known, but it Is bsliered to be serious. He has been rrr-siedl at Picion. Three hundred bales of Neleon hops were sold in (one line for Australia last week. Tbs price has not transpired. The barque Kate Talham, which went ashore ia Cloudy Bay some time age, while on a voyage from Newcastle lo Napier, with coal, has been successfily floated off. On Sunday Elizabeth Micheson, infant daughter of Mr Micheson, West Oxford, North Canterbury, was so much scalded about the face and chest by the upsetting of a p-nnikin of hot water that death supervened. A 260 z nugget, vaiusd at £9l, is now at the National Bank, Blenheim. It came from Scarfa’s claim, on the rightibank of the Mahakipawa Creek. A good deal of quartz is adhering. It was found within a few yards of the reef, which encourages the belief that the reef is rich, and the richness of the field is now beyond doubt. There is no nesd of hesitation in chronicling finds. A rush has broken out iu the Waikakalm Range, within two hours of Blenheim. Over 100 claims were pegged eat on Saturday. At 10.30 on Monday morning the Warden had issued twentyfive miosis’ rights.

The Chinese who were arrested at Christchurch on Sunday night on acha'ge of playing fan tan, were brought up at the City Police Court on Monday. The keeper of the house where the gaming took pi ice was fined £lO, and the oi her prisoners 10s each. The fines and costs were paid in one sum by a friend of the accused. A young man named Rudolph Radka, who was committed for (rial at Invercargill, on the 17th, on a charge of arson, escaped frem gaol between 10 o’clock on Sunday night, and 6.30 on Monday morning. At the former hour the indicator on the cell door showed that it was locked, but Radka must have tampered with it in ■ome way, po as to make it give a wrong reading for his cell was vacant this morning, and a wire clothes line dangling over the front wall showed only too plainly the means used to effect his escape. Once out of his cell Radka bad simply to unbar a door, pick up the clothes line, make a loop in one end, throw it over one of the small turrets surmounting the front of the wall and haul himself up, lowor the line on the other side, and droped on to the aabplialte pavement outside. Ho is in ordinary dress, which, of course, favors the chance of making good his attempt at securing liberty. An alarm was promptly given, and the police and warders are now scouring tbe district. No trace was found in the cell of any tool by which the lock of the door was picked. Four or five coni cars are to be placed the North Island Railway lines for the conveyance of dairy produce, particularly butter.

At Napier the case Mayo ▼. Sturrook, claim £lo# for loss of a laughter’* services through deafness, caused by defendant boxing the ear of tbs child, who was a pupil in the district school in which defendant was a teacher, was dismissed without costs.

Aahipper of cheese from Manaia Factory baa lost £172 worth shipped by one boat, whilst exactly similar cheese sent by another boat, reached Home in splendid condition.

A girl named Lydia de la Mare, 19 years old, died suddenly at (Jhris.church on Tuesday. She had been ill with consumption, and had been attended by a female specialist. An inquest was held the same evening, and adjourned for a pout mortem examination.

, While the Engliah footballers were returning from New Brighton to Dunedin in a drag on Tuesday, the break of the vehicle gave way when coming down the pinch into Green laluh'd, and all were capsized over the banlc, smashing through u fence and rolling inlo an adjoining paddock. Fortunately all escaped with slight injuries, though the escapes were almost miraculous. Harper, of Nelson, sprained his wrist. Haslam, an English phyer, had his hand cot. Lillywhile was pitched fully ten yards, and received a severe shaking. One of the korses was badly hurt, tbe harness brokei, and the drag wrecked. Edward Walsh, adangerojs lunatic, has escaped f om the Auckland lunatic asylum. He was committed to gaol six months ago for attempting to shoot men at Helenaville and then became insate, Should he go to Helensyille it is feared he will attempt to mnrder some one. This makes two dangerous lunaiics at large in the district, this one homicidal, and tbe other the incendiarist, Spalding, of whom tbe police have found no Irace.

The r ’hief Inspector of Sheep, Wellington, bas received telegrams from the inspectors at Blenheim and Kaikoara, intimating that clean certificates have been granted to the Mount Patriarch and Greenhills sheep. All flocks, therefore, in the South Island are now clean, but before scab can be said to be eradicated, stray shoep have to be dealt with. There is every probability that by shearing time the colony may once again be declared clean, that is, if the wild sheep in rough country have then been destroyed.