INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2067, 19 February 1889, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

{?** 7BXBS ASSOCIATION.) •• Auckland, February 18. There ire no bopei, the medical authorities state, of Edgecombe, the jookey, reooverinjr,. STr* Maxwell. IWlway Commissioner, left for Wellington bj the Takapnna, bavtog made tmlohi arrangements la regard to the working of the looal rallAn In^aeit on the late fire »t Mrs Keal's feaidenee, Parnell, remlted In a verdlet ot Inoendlarlem, bat that there waa no evidence to show who fired the The Ponsonby Naral Artillery went Into oatnp on Batardaj, In order to receive iMtzootlon m Vi«gon drill at Fort Takaf>nn«. The Yiotorfa Rfles and Oity Onard* have alio gone In for a week's camp drill at the Takapona raoeoonue. There •reabont 150 altogether m oimp. All •t tended obareh parade yeßterdny, with 60 men from H.M.S. Dart. Maktbktow, Febronry 18. A bone ridden by a boy named Griffin vu frightened by an engine crowing the Wairarapa ratlwaj bridge thl^ morning mnd threw the rider, and daihed hit bralai oat aj?«ln«ia post. W«iuawwos, February 18. ' The Government have determined to prosecute two firms at Ghristchurch whose goods were Belted for breaches of the UoitomtAoh 8o far m ia known active steps are being taken io dqal with the outbreak of scab The eheeo will not be killed unless after the mob nas been isolated for six months. Ohbibtchuboh, February 18. William Jones, one of the Secretaries of the War Ylotlmi Aid Sooiety, formed daring the Franoo-Praisian war, delivered an address to-night m favor of international arbitration and formed a faranoh of the Peaoa 8oo!ety. The Orlando arrived from Akaroa this afternoon.