INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1605, 9 July 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

♦ : ■-■- :^-mAuoklakdi July 8. A petition to Mr Ballance is being signed by several hundred pensionera, hearil y approving thejproposals of OapUite Daveney relating to the introdnotlon „to. , the Auckland dlttrlct of soldiers with pensions discharged from H.M. service, and suggesting that provtoibtCihoiild be made far the Inclusion of discharged ooldlora already m the colony*. . „- A fatal accident occurred on Friday at K*worua, Hoklanga. A boat oontainin* five persons c»psiz>d . and one lifted Jaivie was drowned. . " ' .' . Wellington, Jqly ■&. ':' I At an lnqueet into the cToumstanoes xifrf l^^? — 1 — a rr' m Bxoaiaior Wine Yaulis, the jury returned a vardiot that the premtoe* were del|berfttel* and malicioualy Bbt on fire, bnfe ihere WAs no • evidence to show by whom. The amount locally ■übaoribed to the Imperial Institute will, be sent Home by the_ Governor next mail.. The ■umij £350. Nloholaa Fernandez, n fishmonger, wat to-day maloted m a fine for selling to the Police Dspot for breakfast fish uafik for food. Reports receivod by the Native Depart- I mon/. from the West Coast state thai Te Whiti, m an lndk-eot manner, (a trylna to make himßelf an annoyance to th* (ioverntnent. Mr W. Seed who retired from the poti. tfoQ of Secretary of Customs 'outha 30th June, was the recipient cOivrb addteu«s — one by Oustoma ofiioialathroaghoot tht colony, presented by Mr MoKellar, Oollector of Customs here, and the ■noond from the Qorernment olfiosra of Welling. ton, presented by Mr J; B. < lYtazeimM, the Oohtroller-aeneral. Accompsdylng eaoh testimonial waß a valuable piece of plato. Hokihka, July 8. Margaret FUhwiok, wife of Jogeph Fiflhwlok, carpenter, was o>owned m m dram thfa evening. Thb drain ran* alongaido of an unformed street on the terrace and ia vory deep. Deoeased was observed by a boy, who went for asalatanoa, but before the body was recovered life vat extinct. The body had drifted a chain down the drain. * Durably July 8. One of the seamen of the Tainui, who was caught by a Customs Offioer smuggling; tobacoo aahore, was to-day fined £4 lOi and 11s ooatß. Two men at Anderson's Bay quarry wore rather seriously injured to-day by venturing to ascertain why a large blast had not gone off. When they got neat the tpot an expjoalon tool? phice. Both were knooked down, and eaoh had a leg broken, besides other injuries. Invbroakqill, July 8. A. MoKenzie, of Danedin, who wai a paasenger by the Te Anau to Melbourne* was arrested at the Bluff, on a telegraphio warrant from Dunedin; on a charge of hroeny, and remanded to that city.