INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1803, 16 October 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The coal export from Greymouth last week was 3209 tons. *A young man named Michael Sheehan attempted to commit suicide at Auckland on. Friday night by cutting his throat. The wound is not considered dangerous. At Manaia; after sitting four day,l and examining twenty-four witnesses, the jury returned a verdict, in the enquiry concerning Hay’s fire, that there was no evidence to show the cause. The jury attached a rider that the property was over-insured, and that there was great negligence on the part of (be agent in accepting the risk without fuller inspection as to the state of the property, i During the past ten days four applications for mineral leases (coal) have : been made at Westport, covering nearly 7,000 acres, un-m which £670 has been 1 paid into tii- iiUld office. At a meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce : a communication 1 was received from the Government stating that they did not see their way to reduce the charges made by the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, as the department barely paid expenses. It was resolved that the committee make enquiry diking the coming quarter, as tbe impression was that Thera was h handsome surplus. Mr Denniston, the late president, in referring th the Melbourne Exhibition, said (hat as an illustration of the excellence of the grain exhibits, a leading American manufacturer was so struck with the appearance; of some wheat grown near Oamaru that he had written 1 to the speaker’s firm foci a few hags for introduction into America in the hope that they 'might be able to produce crops as good as those exhibited. A rote of thanks was passed to the Hob, R. Campbell for his action in regard to the Dock Trust loan. James Campbell, aged 20, was arrested at the Bluff by Detect ive'iEdie, and charged with obtaining board and lodging fr6m Mr Saunders, of Christchurch, under false pretences. The fishing smack Nellie was wrecked last Tuesday morning several miles off Dog Island. During a heavy gale a sea struck her, carrying away.the. rudder and breaking the deck in. James Young, the master, a young unmarried man; was washed off and drowned, The other men, John Young, and James Duncan, were rescued by the light-keaper, who observed the accident and pluckily put off in an open boat, risking his own life. An open boat which wqpt to sea at Westport on the 7lh with three men on board capsizad four miles southward of Little Wanganui. The occupants got safely ashore through the surf, but were much exhausted. They intend returning by sea with the first favourable breeze.