INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1465, 25 January 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, January ?4. Tbe action of J»a. Ha well v Felix Monsghnn, for £500 damages for seduotion of plaintiffs daa&htu*, is being h-ard at the oivil sittings of the Supreme Court to-day. The case of J. S. Gibbons v Union Insurance Company, for the recovery of £745 15s, being the amount of insurance on the propeity barned down, wbb called on. Mr Campbell, for tha plaint ff, intimated that the claim baa been settled. The Ohatnbor of Commerce have invite^ j Sir Julius Yogel to give his views on tbe proposed Maritime Exhibition, to be he'd m Auckland m 1890, and ha has oonsented willingly. B a wee a, January 24. A girl named Jessie Bamler, living near Stratford, baa jnst died undor ve&y peouliar ciroumstiuoes. She is about nine years of age, living nith her uncle, Mr Blair. She «ab sent to eno'her Mr 1 Blair, a f.-w ob%inn eff, for a pot. The Blair by wh mshe wai sens f 'n ing she vaa a loog tlrae a way. went to see whore ehe was and disxvjred her quite dead with her neck urder a window sash. | The people to whose house aha was sent ' were avay at church and the supposition la that she waa galling m ny rut of the window when the stuh caiuo down upon her, killing n't* m the way described J* Bf Plymouth, January 24. A house on the Dent igl | road, betwi en Waipul<» and Mtdburst, was burnt down on Saturday afternoon. Thoowno a were In New Plymouth at the ((me, and a ohi d of theirs left m the house was burnt to death. Wellington, January 24. Saturday and yesterday were the. two hottest days of the season, ard the thermometer h >s registered 85 degrees m tbe Bhade. The police are still prosecuting employers of females for keeping them at work on Saturday o^ternoons, and another case will bo heard on "Wed- c.day. A thick fog hung ever the entrance rf the hart or This morning, and qfceamere entering tni bar'-or had a difficulty to Hscrtain ilhei* pf'■ on One or iw» if the tea els 1 5, 1 a narrow ecoape, the fog only lifting when the steamerß wero close to the rooks. Though there was brilliant sunshine m town all day, thi fog wan thick both at Island Bay and at the Heads, and tbe steamer Rotcmahana, which left here for the South this afternoon, had to anchor at the Pilot Station for a oouple of hours. A vhitor who has returned from Rotorui states that seed potatoes lo f t m before the eruption are springing up vigorously through the overlying mad, though some depth of digging will be required to gather the orops. Forest trees are beginning to bud again vigorously, and he thinks are not bo muoh damaged es at Gisfc believed. The country, however, still w ara a general aspect of desolation, y/t)iteinan',fl sawmill *t Wakanae was destroyed by fire on Friday last. 'The balldibg and maohinery were injured for £500. Nothing ; was saved. The origin is unknown.