INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1481, 12 February 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, Febrnary 11. The schooner Mimima reports baring Been a cutter ashore on Little Barrier Island. The vessel, probably the Tawtki packet, F. Pollen, master appeared to be euuk. She haa been mi sing since the middle of January, and is owned by Judge Wilson, i;£ Tauranga Ninety. seven appHoationa were received for the appointment of school officer at ft salary of £100. The friends of Perm have applied to have hJa body after exeoation The Minister of Justice repliod that the dh« posal of the body would be at the disoretion of tho Sheriff, and that if the Sheriff was satisfied that the funeral would be qalet, and without demonstration, the Government would not ohjaot to the body belDg given to his friends for burial. Penu. on being interviewed by his mother said, "I kuow, mother, what my doom is, but I am innocent of murder " Wellington, February 11. A proclamation aopt ar« m the Qaaetft further proroguing Parliament until Maroh 16th, but before that the Oabtnot will probably fix the date f r oa ling member* together for the despatch of business Kelson February 11. At the annual meeting of the Ohambtr of Oommeiroe, held t<i-d*y, Mr O. V Fell was m the ohair. He referred to the pmspeota of Nelson aa hopeful, alluding •o the Midland Hallway, the develop* nivnt of the Co lingirood coal workings «nd the very hopefai pronpeot t>f newopened goldfielda. a a to the oropi, he underntood that the qraln was up to the average ; aod with regard to hnp«, that though the y Qld would be muoh less, tbe prio*a woold be h<s>h»t Dunedin. Febrnary 11. Of the white fiih ova for the Otago .4ooUroatißatton Soo;ety whioh arrived by .'he Alameda, about 30 per oenr waa, od examination, found to be bad. At the pouds at Clinton a fair proportion hare hatched oat, however, and aro on r to Hvoly.