INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1806, 23 October 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The Fire Brigades Association has subscribe! £BO fcow&tds the late Mr McOuteheon's family; Mr McOutcheon was drowned intbe attempt to save the life of a Miss Jeffreys at the Ocean Beaob, Dunedin. A glove contest came off at the Dunedin Theatre on Saturday night, in which Harry Lsing undertook to knock J. PetteDgel] out in six rounds for £25 and the gate money. PetteDgell weit down a second or so before time was called for the finish of the last round. The referee awarded the oontest to Laing. The decision was received with much dissent, aod is very open to question. A citizens' banquet to the Hon. W. J. M. Larnach, C.M.G., M.H.R., who is about to baave for Victoria, was held iu the Grßnd Hotel,' Dunedin, on Saturday evening, and was attended by a very considerable" number of leading citizens. The Hob. W. H. Reynolds waa in the chair, and several complimentary speeches were made. At Blacks, Ota«o, last week, John Pitches, William Titchea and Andrew Pitches, runholders of Ophir, were charged with stealing two heifers. After a two days' hearing, the Bench committed Andrew Fitches, discharging the others. A gold prospector named Frederick Burke has been accidentally killed at Waitorimaka, Ooromandel. Twe members of the Auckland City Guards on Saturday afternoon set up a kerosene tin on the Surrey hills estate, and began firing at it with rifles at a distance of 50Q yards. The bullets whistled past a little girl walking in Oummer road, and then penetrated the will of a house, smashing some things in the kitchen. The police were informed, and put a stop to this extraordinary rifle practice in a thickly populated district, and the youths'—Henry Oarey and Joseph fc'airweather-.—will be charged with a breach of the Police OffdDces Act.