INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1816, 16 April 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[per press association.]

Auckland, April 14. Ak tho Mocgoaui U.M Court, Thomas Bargham was convicted of three charges of selling brandy al the Awanui Raoea on March 16th he not being licensed to do so and was flaed on each oharge, the total penalties imposed being £11 with costs £17. Three Natlveß alao pleaded guilty to ely grcg Belling on the same occasion, and were fined £5 and ooata each. They Btated m exten nation that they had baen acting nnder the inatruoiona of Barghara. Edward Sandall, a butcher, pleaded guilty at t,be Polioe 0.-mrt to-day to slaughtering two sheep upou his batcher's premises m the midat of a thickly populated district, acd was fined 40j and oosts. A two-year-old ch'.ld of Mr l-'oater, of Orawaiti, has been poisoned by laudanum, given by mistake by an elder brother. George Revell, a settler at Harriavllle, fell dead whilst walking on his verandah on Thursday. Daath was doe to heart disease, Napibb, April 14. Renata Kawepo, the last of the great ohiefa of Hawke's B»y, died at Omahu this morning. The diseased waa a staunch friend of lha Europeans daring the Maori war. . He furnished and led a continaen? against Te Kooti. He was universally esteemed. His death will convert tho greit political gathering to bo held next weok Into a t»ngi. A Maori named Tawa, m » state o? drunken freczy, waa nn horseback gallopIng through liotorua township on Thursday night, when his hor*e ran into a crowd of Natives coming from a meeting held by Sydney Talwhanga, and one of the men, a Maketu chief named Matia, was thrown down and violently bruised, and he dlad on Friday morning, Ta*a waa thrown from hia borae and now lies m a preoarlons condition. He id now m the oaetody of the police Wellington, April 15. Captiin Bendall and six workmen went np by train to the chip Fleione, for the purpoie of laying out one of her anchors, so as to prevent If possible her driving farthor ap the beach. The steamer Bellinger, which want ashore ot Waitara, and then came on here for repairs, has been lauached from the slip, but will be taken up again to-morrow, ac a small leak m 3 tack ha? been discovered. Greymouth, April 15. A young lad, David Gralney, about 11 yaars of age, accidentally fell over a qu*rry face this morning, a height of 70 or 80ft His head was eplit opan, and although not dead when picked up, there is little hope of. his recovery. He was looking after some ova at the time.