INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1815, 14 April 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(Pkr Press Association.) Auckland, April 13. . The Auckland Soath Licensing eUcijii to-day resulted m tho rat urn of foar m derate and oce temperance candidate. A man named Herwood Matthews, tt farmer «t Kaipara, died to day from the effects of injariea received through his arm being caught m a threshing machine. An old man named Peter O'Dowd, re■lding at Mount Roskili road, attempted suicide yesterday by ewallowing laudanum, after which he chewed the heads of eaveral matcher. He is recovering. "Wellington, April 13 His Excellency the (.Jovf rnor presided at a meeting of thecFxhibuion Commissioners to-day. A cablegram haa been received from Melbourne R'.atirg thtt fio Exhibition opens on tho ls' ; Ai'guat next. Reports are to hand of a steady ad vatic 3 being made m all branches of work pertaining to the forthcoming Exhibition. Exhibits leave New Zaaland by the M^uaponrl, Btarting from Auckland on the 3rd May, and collecting southwards. She arrives m Melbourne on 16 ;h May. Dunedin, April 13 At the Police Court to-day Ohas. Henry Williams, a probationer, pleaded guilty to larceny of a watch. Representations were made m accused's favor, and the Bench adopted the novel oouree of extending his term of probation for blx months. The Premier to-day received a deputation from the Harbor Board oa local matters and, accompanied by Mr Fergus, inspected Reid and Gray's factory. Sir H. Akineou bad a long Interview with Sir H. Stout this

morning. •