INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 2 April 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(Pjsb Pebss Association.)

Auckland, March 31

The Island steamer Richmond arrived this morning. She reports that on the 19th mat the British ship Shan r on, Captain Mitchell, had put into Raratonga, leaking, with 1400 tons coal on board. She was unloading with a view to discover th.9 leak. The sile of Kawau for £12 000 was concluded to-day. Tha purchaser's Mrs Rlizi Rutherford Thomson, of Lusatia Park, Victoria. By the tsrma of the mortgage deed the island is to be preserve 1 m ita present state of cultivation! and ali trees, etc , planted by Sir GK Grey are to be preserved. The r •duction m the City valuation this year amounts to 1 £31,000, which means a 1033 m rates of £3000, independent of the falliog off m licenses and rentals. A de- , crease i 3 to be effected m the expenditure; It is stated that Sir Qeo Grey will not | leave for England till after the coming cession. Wellington, Maroh 31. Jatnea Madden, lioonaea of the Clyde Qaay Hotel, waa Karraated at Hawera on Thursday for absconding. Dunedin. Maroh 31. There was another featf ul rain storm at Tapanul yesterday. The country m many places ia under water, Dunedin, April 1. An enquiry was held at Moagiel into the circumstances of the destruction by fire of two stacks of oats and one of Btraw, the property of John Taylor. The jury returned a verdict that the stacks Lad been° maliciously set on fire by some oae unknown, A man named James Riddel, who had been arrested for the offence, was then brought up, and, on the application of the police, the charge waa I withdrawn