INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1798, 4 October 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A fire broke out at Garrett Bros’, boot factory, Wakefield street, Auckland, on , Monday evening, Flames were discovered in tbe packing-room, but were quenched before they spread to other parts of (he building. Considerable damage was dona by water. On.e of the employees lighted a cigarette in the room some time previously. A disgraceful scene took place in a back street of Dunedin, on Saturday night, when two youog women of bid character, had a regular stmd up fight in the presence of a number of men and women. One who pleaded guilty, on Mouday, was sentenced to one month, and the other, who was defended, to three months. The dead body of a man named Charles Cornish, cook on board the steamer Rose Casey, was found in the Auckland harbour on Tuesday morning. It is supposed that deceased fell over the wharf. In a cose at the Auckland Police Couit against Wddams for using insulting to the two men, Waurman and McCarthy, employed by Messrs Garrett Bros., the bench ordered that defendant be bound over to keep the pe ce for 12 months, liimse f in £2OO, and two sureties in £IOO each. A similar penalty was imposed in a like caso against Frederick Nicholson.