INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1597, 30 June 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, Jane 29

From information received, the r.o!ica went to the store of Ah Ohee, a gro er, In Waksfield street, 10-nlght, and sefzad twelve oasea of Chinese brandy, which had been imported by Ah Ohae. He will I c oharged with celling spirits without a license.

The provisions of the late Mr C. O. Davis' will are reported to be— £soo m aid of the funds of the Salvation Army Barracks, £100 to the Prison Brigade, and a like sum to the Home for Fallen Women . After the' payment of a number of bequests to relatives, the remainder of the estate will be divided between the Parnell Orphanage and the Auckland branch of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Auokland branch of the British and Foreign Bible Soolety. The whole of Mr Davis* mats, weapons, etc., are to go to the Auokland Museum. Wellington, June 29.

At a meeting m connection with the New Zealand Alliance for the suppression of the liquor traffic, the Rev Mr Driver, Secretary add Treasurer of the Wellington branoh, quoted statiatios showing that the drink bill of the colony last year amounted to £2,130,000, an average of £3 7s 6d per head, which, however, was the smallest expenditure upon intoxicants that had been known for 18 years, the average having been at one time as high as ten guineas per head. Grbymouts, June 29,

Of the enormous qatntity of timber felled for clearing the Midland Railway line on both Ha branches, the greater portion has been sawn Into logs of convenient eize, ani sttoked along the tide lines, so as to be easily available. Subsequently this will eventually be converted Into nawn timber. It is mostly of large aiza and exoslleat q lality. Dumedin, Tone 20

At a meeting of the subscribers to the Maoandrew memorial, a motion proposed by the Premier waa tarried, that £50Q be devoted to a soholarahip, and the Salaries 4*237, invested for twelve moath* and then to ba devoted to a monument.

The Medioal Aasoolatlon have decided to start a New Zealand medioal iournal, «nfl the first isß49 taken place next month.