INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1448, 5 January 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, J\naary 4. Tn the Ore^unija alit'ged arson onse againit James Gibbo.-B the Mngiatra c rtserved hie decision 1 11 to-junrrow. A parcel of quarts naut by a Fiji ayndioate to Auckland (proving aunfeious on being tested, Thomns HolHa.Ja Thnmeß pronpector. 1 aveij for t r ij> on fcfunfoy, and will be j mod by a p-tty at Lovuka to o mrnonce rporationa. Mr Justice Ward h»s arranged with th« Crown ProßHOO'or to TftVe iho t r ial of Obfttny and Perm on the 17th inut Wanganui, J-miiary 4 The boy drowned li»s be n identified as the ton of B.iuhtwoUj n settler nea«" .Normanby. The boy rr.iumort last, wrek io Wangnnnl fmm a visit ti> Fox ton, and wrh missed by hia fiie<uia hare, who supposed he hod oontinned bis journey homewards next day. It is not know a how he got drcwi.od. An inquoat will b» held tomorrow. . Wbllinotcn, Junuary 4. Mas Li IHe Bryer, leading Indy of tho pantomime company now at the Theatre Royal, while at reboaroa 1 ' t>d«y r; pturßd a blcod vessel, and ia m a critical condition, - . Inspector Clifton, m the Murlboreugh disrrlo 1 , wire* the Colonial Soorpttxry that with the exooptlon of i» amsll patch at Hopefield, *c»b has botn erndioated from hia d strict. Jt i* expected that tbo whole of tho eoloay will very ahortly be deolared ole»n. Mr S. Brown, the Mtyor, mi thrown ftom a buegy thin evening, through the horsa bolting. He wai severely shaken, bat whs not ■eriously hart. Tha body of a lad, named Alnxixnder Reid, aged seventeen, was found fl tadtug m the harbor this c von Ing. Deceased had been misning sinco the niuht of the 30' h Da em->or. He wan BuHj^ot to epiUptio fits, and it ia supplied that vrhile m one he fell into tha water. HoeitjkA, January 4. . Antonio Zila, a god prospector, Is missing. He made nnnni^ements to meet a nephew At Ross on Christmas Day but did not koep his appoint mont. It \» feared soinn acoldt-nt befel him A oearoh party of six to nur. Grrymoutii, January 4 The skeleton (fa nhale betwaon 60 arid 70 feet long, and not all uno^vored, was f und It* -»-«widfltone rook iv slaioing v claim at Rid Jioket, on tho te THoe, anout 25 fnet a^inve the level of n oreck m the locality, and about 100 feot abort) tho Invel " of the sea The bonoa are not f asilfsed. " The aan'dttone bo" torn is aoft enough to he worked with a piok Some time ago the Mni«ter of Marino wrotu a somewhat pere uptory letter to the Harbor Board, intimating thak it they diJ out fall m with the views of the Government m Barbor Board and railway matter*, the Governmpirit would try to obta'n g ntlomen whi. would do to. Alter o >nnid«r ng r.he letter the Bnni*d passed a (eaolatii>n r .with on» disaentieu^, that the Vfi ii»ter \o informed that if ho wa« disflnHsfied with the sotion of tho Board, •they would h va n» objection to bo rereliironl of effi c, Tl^ real dtflionlty bemr««n the OovornmMnt and th Board is the qn«Ktlon of the prioe of rol'iug Hock ■■pplied by the Government, 'lie Board ooutdiiding i.hat ih^ohArg a ara exoesaivo