INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1662, 14 September 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, September 18. By the Marposa, which left lilt cveaing tor San Franoisoo, the National Bank shipped five boxes containing 250,000 sort* reigns. Th* Staff of tb« Auckland Telegraph Department are indignant at imputations wh'oh have been made a« to the offioUl Btoresy of the Dapartment not being mala* tamed as regards telegrams, and it Is laid application will be ma-la to the Wellington authorities fee an official it quiry into tht matter. The hearing of the charge against Hoera He Mlmiha, which has oooupled the atten* tion of the Supreme Court for some days, conoluded this evening at six o'olook, when the jury retired to conelder, their verdio^ At nine o'clock the Foreman annonaced there was no possibility of their agreeing and they have been looked up for the night Wellington, September 13. The man killed at Manukau yesterday is named James Welch. Deceased wa« onder acrnbbing m the gully when a tree, felled by his mate, m falling struck others, causing branches to fall. One struck deceased on the baok of the head. No* thing is known of deceased further than that he was working at Palmeraton a fttr weeka ago, and hails from Canterbury. Mr j)r Robilliard, who belonged to HM.t). Nelson, and whose death by drowning, owing to the oapslz9 of one of the ship's boats m Sydney harbor, Is announced to day, Is the offioer who had obarge of a portion of the Neluon'a crew, who rendered such valuable assistance here during the large fire m Panama street about five months ago. An inspection of fire eeoapes m public houseß has been made by the police. The result Bhows that «U the hotels m Wellington are well provided with aplianoen to facilitate escape In case of fir*. The new Girl's High School, juie erected at a oost of some £6000, was formal v opened by the Governor this aft moon, Dtjnbdin, September 13, Two men, named O'Hagin, arrested at Nonh E*st Valley on a charge of having an illicit still m their possession, appeared at iha Police Court to day, but were re* mantled. The plant was unmistakeably used for distillation, and some of the produce was found. A good deal ot rain and hall fell daring to-day, and to-night snow is falling } but it is so soft that except upon the hills, It is not likely to He long.