INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1419, 18 May 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, May 17. The boot manufacturers have again declined to re-open Denotations with the Opo a ives’ Union, but offer to receive men at the fact-.'riea to morrow on a statement an<i resoiu ! ion limiting employment to boys.

In the case of Rob rt Jenkineon v, the Auckland Harbour Bo ird, a phase of the embrogiio < f the railway reclamation wall, a verdict w w given for plaintiff for L 584 Costs ok the highest scale were allowed. Fbildino, May 17 A sharp shock of earthquake occured yesterday morning about 4 o’clock. Wellington, May 17. The Appsal Court was occupied, tc-day in hearing argument in re Miles, Archer and Co. v Hoare, et uxor (Christchurch). It is not yet concluded. At the nomination tc-day for a Director of the Government Insurance Association, Messrs G. 3. Graham and G. V. Shannon were the only two nominated. The net amount collected here for the Tamoa relief fund is L2OB 7s, which has been divided as follows :—Mrs M’Phee, Margaret Hill, and Annie Morriaon, all of Dnnedin, L 33 each ; and the balance, LlO9 7s, to Mrs Hawkins, of Wellington.

Nelson, May 17.

A man named Daniel Maloney, who was charged with stealing a pony belonging to Mr Harvey, of Wakapuaka, was tc-day committed for trial. The charge la that prisoner took the pony on the morning of April 26, and rode it without a saddle through Ria Yalley, Havelock, and Wairau to the Hanmer a distance of 200 miles. The pony was utterly done up when Maloney was arrested on May 1 at the Waiau. Dunedin May 17-

At a preliminary meeting of policyholders of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, it was decided to hold another meeting to consider the Directors’ proposal to establish a London agency. In consequence of a representation from Colonel Fargood, from Aujkland, that united efforts were almost certain to ensure success against the French designs on the New Hebrides, the fol owing telegram has been sent to the Moderator of the Presbyterian Synod at Auckland : “ The Synod may depend on the hearty and united support of the Dunedin community in protesting against the French annexation of the New Hebrides.—(Signed) John Barnes (Mayor), William Salmond (Moderator of the Synod), Robebt Scotx ( Rear-Ad miral). ”