INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1596, 29 June 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Taubanqa, Jane 28r Sfck Natives are oomlng from great distances to attend a faith-healing mission here, conducted by aa old Native named Hautu, Wakqanci, June 28. A yonng man named William Oonnell was Bent rot. Ed to threw months' Imprisonment t.-day, fo«? escaping from the castody of a policeman ye. terday while en the way to gaol. Constable M'Lennan had to obase him for fully a mile before oatching him. Wellington, June 28. j Numerous petty tbefta have been reported lately, and last night the Shamrock Hotel, the Thistle Hotel, and ihe. Town and ..Country Hotel were entered, when ama'l amounts of cash and personal pro* perty were stolen. It Is very probable that the New Zealand Alliance for the Suppression of 'tho Liquor Traffic will shortly take a plebiscite m the city, for tbe purpose of Ascertaining publio feeling m regard to the local option question. The glove fight to night betwoenLaing, of Wanganui, and Oannlnghara, of Wellington, for £50 and the championship of New Zealand waa won by the former. The fight was praotioally over m the fifth round, but Cunningham fought on until the seventh rouod, when he gave m. Grbymotjth, June 28,

Tbe police have been dragging the river below the bridge all day for the body of McDowell; who committed suioide on Monday, but without avail. There is come little consternation amongst the trustees of the Greymouth Pabllo Library at the aotion of the Auditor-General m refusing to pass the Borough Omnoil's subscription to that institution, on tho ground that It is not the property of the Corporation, The only revenue of the library ia by publio subscription and suboidles from Local Bodieß, and without the subsidy it will most probably collapse. . The trus .oes and others were under the impression that clause 4C6 of the Municipal Corpora' lons Act permitted grants m aid. Hokitika, June 28.

A Commission, con.istiog of Me.sra Giles (Magistrate), Chesney, aud Fowler, leading business men, has been sitting for the last two days, endeavoring to settle tha differences between the Charitable Aid Board and the Westland Hospital Trustees. The lat'.er Is a separate instltu tion, and the Board reduced the trustees' estimated expenditure by £500, demurring to tbe item of £300 for repairs and alterations, and also -obj 90 ting to the trustees' by-laws and the arrangement by which country subscriber*, are allowed privileges and admission to the hospital by the. yearly payment of 10a. Counsel are employed on both aides, acd the c.ac is very complicated. The Magistrate said that no due was given by the Aot a . t. tho oonduot of tbo enquiry, The dcoioion will be given to-morrow. Pout C_.ai__.bbs, Juco 28.

Arrived— Eleanor Vernon, barquentiuo, Captain Berry, after a passage of IH days from New York, during whioh she wi»s hove to for J 5 days'. She made her first land fall at Puysogur Point on the 13.h just when she mot a heavy easterly gale and was blown off the land. She brings 700 tons cargo for Dunedin and 200 tons for Auokland.

Dunedin, June 28, Private information has been r.colvfd of successful floating of the Blue Spur and the Cromwell mines. The former will be taken up by n London syndicate. A Financial Reform Association was formed this evening to secure the reduction of the salary and allowances of future Govotnorß, a reduotion|.in Ministerial eateries, aDd the curtailment of Legislative o.penditure, the redaction of the number of the members of the House by At least one fourth, and the Oounoil not tn exceed ono half tbe number of the Hou.o, Civil Service retrenchment, equalisation of revenna and expenditure, ce-islanae to increased taxation, and decentralisation. At a meeting to-day it was deoided to resuaoitate the Chamber o. G< mmeroe, and articles of association were signed,