INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1802, 13 October 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Wednesday, (Jrot'y, charged with nrceny. was found not guilty, "tut Win discharge' 1 . R : cha'd Cheeseiuan, f.ir forgery and uttering, ploade.t guilty. Application was made that he shonM be placed unr'er the Probation Act, and he was reminded till Saturday for the Probation Officer's report. This closed the criminal list.

At the inquest on the body of Henry Lewis Love, who was found dead in the gutter at Lord Brougham Street, Sydenham, on Tuesday, the e»idenc» showed that he was subject to fits, and hid apparently been seizad with one, had fallen into the gutter, and been suffocated by the water which was flowing over his head.

Advices have been received from Milford Sound that Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., and Mr Pillan*, succteded in reaching the foot of the Suther'and Waterfall, reckoned to be between 2000 ft and 3000 ft in height, the highest in the world. It takes three leaps, although from a distance it appears 10 be only two. Mr Adams, the Chief Surveyor, whs engaged at the Sound preparing to make a reconnaistnee survey of the district. He did not go to the falls, and until he does its exact altitude will not be known.

Alexander Kinnimount again appeared at the Dunedin poHed court on Thursday, on a charge of embezzlement. Some four or five previous charges had been dismissed by the justices, and then in order to end matters no evidence was offered in another case, and Kinnimount was committed for trial and acquitted. Ths present was another charge laid by his late employer (A. DornweM), a butcher, but as the material witness refused to attend without his expenses being paid, the case was adjourned, and the witness is to be compelled to attend. A difficulty has occurred at Greyraouth between the BrUnner and Grey Volley Coal Company and the miners over the system of weighing coal in trucks. It has been customary to weigh ono truck or so only, and p'l.v for the rest accordingly. The men objict to thia, and demand that all the trucks shall be weighed. The mine manger objects to this, and the men say that if it ia not done, they will give 21 days' notice, and then'go ont on strike.