INTERPROViNCiAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1867, 14 June 1888, Page 2

INTERPROViNCiAL NEWS.

♦ PER (PREBS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Jane 13. A man named Win. Noble was oonvlokd before Mr H. 0. Baddeley, at the Police Court to-day, of playing the three card trick at Elleralie races on Saturday last, and wes fined £50 and coats, or three months' imprisonment with'hard labor. The Auckland Ru^by Union have decided that th.9 Auckland team of footballers shall lenvo on a southern tour on the 19th or 20 h July, Matches are to be flayed at Napier, Wellington, New Plymouth, Ghilatchurob, ar.d Dunadln, the trip ocoupying twenty- three days. llehei Rapetana waa sentenced at the Sapreroe Court to twelve months'a hard labor and twenty- five strokes of a cat for indecent assault. Qisborne, May 13. A Maori woman, Rakap* Keating, very old and imbecile, was burnt to death last night m a wlure near Giaborue. Haweka, June 13. In tho District Oonrt thla morning, the Rev G. Wilts, head schoolmaster at Munaia, waa fined £iO and costs £11 14s, for assault and battery of E Gal 11---worth, commleßion agent at Manaia.. The caae waa heard bofore the District Judge, Mr Rawson, without a jary, Gretwouth, June 13. A meeting of unemployed was held at Richardson to-day, and a telegram aont to Mr Gulnnes?, member for the district, aeklng him when the railway works are likely to proceed. There haa been a heavy fresh m the river during tho last two days. The weather (a still unsettled. Christchurch, June 13. Thoa. Henley waj committed for trial this afternoon on a charge of shooting at Pater Sinclair on May 23tb, at Shands Track. Patrick Healey, his son, was committed on a charge of violent BSiault on the same occasion. Ball was refaaed for the older prisoner, and his son was admitted to bail In two sureties of £75. The funeral of the late Mrs Harper took place at the oldOhuroh of England cemetery this afternoon, and was attended by a large gathering of clergy and laity. The Dean and Archdeacon Llngard conducted the service. Dunedin, June 13 There waa a severe earthquake at Queenstown at 20 minuteß before noon, j William Molntosh, a rabblter, and an ecoantrlc man, jumped off the steamer jiat before reaching Kiogaton. The body was recovered. A meeting ia to be held next week, convened by the Ministers' Association, to decide upon what Btep3 shall be taken to lessen the evil of the growing prevalence of gambling, fostered to a large extent by the legislation of the totalisator. Blufj 1 , Jane 13. A much-wanted Norwegian, named Andrew Frederickaon, alias Peterson, waa arrested here thla afteruoon on board an oyster cotter by Sergt. Dickie for forging and uttering various small cheqaea at DunedJn, Oamaru, Lawrence, and other places during last April.