INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1454, 12 January 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, January 11. At a meeting of the New Zer.lmd Radical Reform League a letter waa rtad from ••ilr Robert Stout, acknowledging the rectipt of the communication from the Leaeue asking the Ministry to take notion to aboJiah or reform the Upper Honne. The letter was read, but; the Asaocia-i n •xpreased regret that their comraania*tlon had not extracted an expression of opinion from the hon gentleman. H was renolved that the Association appoint n Committee to consider the General subject of Legislative and other public expenditure, and bring up a report thereon at on early date. Thare ware oreir 200 fewe- arrests for drnnkneßs m Auckland m 1886 than m the preceding year. Owlot: t » tin dronght, the overflow from tbe Weßtern Springe reservoir has oaased. The Council Intend to take step* to proven 1 tb« vase of water which t*kes place, Bush fires are reported m the Waiu kerei ranges and also m the North. A fire on Rangitoto Is bnrning fiercely. At Alexandra a ferret got Into Flinch 1 ! Hotel, and boldly attacked Mra Flinch and some Maori women there. The timely arrival of its own or stopped Kb ca eer. Wm Henry Jones, on a charge of forgery, was deah with under the Probation At for twelve months, conditionally on h ! « taking the pledg« for twelve months ; bat If during that tiros he b-oke anoh pledge, he would be brought up and dealt with ai if no auoh order had been made. The coats of the provocation were £30, and His ffonor nude aa order on prisoner to pay £10 ai tbe end of »ix months. £10 at twelve month , a"d £10 at the ecd of eighteen months. 0»nwel), for robbery from the pereon, was discharged under the Probation Act. John Livescy, grandson of the celebrated British Temperance Reformer, was sentenced to five yearn ppnal eorritad" on four chargea of forgery ; Johu Gran: Forsyth. on four charges of forgery, two yeara ; Honry Brady for personation at Waltemata election, eentencn . was deferred pending tha trial -of Thomas Kelly, charg -d with aiding and abetting; Brady m the personation, Wellington," January 11.

Information v as been received by tha Minister of Lands from *Xot>raa that the tourist, traffic daring the present season la only about ono-fonrth of the avenge before tho eruption o? Toraireri.

There are only three ministers here, but they all disavow any knowledge of tho rumor to the efTot that one of the Cabinet Intends to resign.

Dunedin, Jantrary 11 Wo aotlon baa yet been tak^n re representing this oolony at the Colonial Confereuoe.

Mrs Laaaoh, wife of the Minister of Mines died this evening.

A nautical enquiry into tbe collision between the Omnpere and the Harbor B >ard's dredge was commenced to-day lie fore Mr Carew, R M., nnd Rear- Admiral Scott and Otpfain Orkney, Napfoal '-sBessora. Oaptiln Smith, of the Omipore. m his evidence, stated that be thought the dredpe was abont to pass close t> Goat Island, and that, gave him no chance of keeping the Ocaapere on tbe right ride of the channel He net the engine*) uoing fall speed aitern. Had tbe dredge kept BtraigHt ob the course she was shaping, thpr* would have been no oolllaion. Captain Stewart, of t'<e dredgn v Id his ev>dano?, blamed the Ocmpere for the colit■iou. The anquiry h not concluded yet.