INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1414, 23 November 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

* Auckland, November 22 John Johnston, engmeer of the steamer Kahn, opening the man-hole of the holler rather soon, got severe y scalded by steam He was taken to the Hospital. His injuries are not likely to prove fa'-al. Wellington, November 22. At.the Court of A ppea! to-day, Mr Gul ! y asked that the rasa in which the Minister for Public Works had sought for an order prohibiting Justice Johnston from dealing with a claim for compensation in the Canterbury d a‘rlct should be reinstated, so that he ought make an application for the costa of one of defendants (McLean), on the ground that plaintiff had improperly withdrawn the from the Court Their Honor* adjourned the application im il Thursday, in order that Mr Gully might give notice to the other side. The Native chief Tanrna. of Patea, has decide! to contest the Western Maori electorate. Dunedin, November 22. A girl named Thomson, daughter of a resident at Beaumont, was drowned while crossing the Olutha in a punt. A waggon, with some six tons of merchandise which was on board, was thrown into the river, an! the goods, to the va'ue of about £260, lost. The puntsma i and two other men who were in it when it broke away from the rope were got ashore two miles down the river. The first Jewish bazaar held In Dunedin was opened this evening, when the hall was unable to accommodate the visiters Sir J. Vogel delivered gn address, In the course of which he replied to Bishop Neville’s recent utterances on bazaars.