INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2258, 19 October 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PebPbESS A8S001ATIOH,)

JTeimmng, Oootober 18. . Father Patterson, of Palmeraton, hie written to the ''Pall Mall Gazette, denying the statement that Bishop Moran wsi the on'y Roman Gatholio prelate m Mew Zealand favortog Home Rale In Ire'and* Father Patten on states tbat every Homtn O»thollo Bishop In the colon? hasdeolared In favor of Home Rule. Wellingtox, Ootober 18. The "EventDg Fost" has resolved an anonymous letter written In, panoll, In whtoh the writer gays be was the mutdecet of Hawkins and that Ohemls is Innooent. Ha giveo so • reason for tfae murder that he was out shooting, when Hawkins wanted to turn him off the hod and kloked him. The letter la believed to bt •> stupid hoax. ' Mr Edward Barber, of Wellington, hat gone to London In the lonic to regulate the ft'z m meat business of the firm thera. The R»U*ay Commissioners have tx» pi tiled their wllllngoeis to grant free rail it ay pastes to Australian oompetlton altmdlng the New Zealand Klfle Isßoeta~ tlon meeting at Dunedln. In addition to the party of workmen sent to Mllford Sound to form a traok up to the Bathetland Falls, the Cfcvernment have eeat a eeoond party to o mmenee work from the Lake Te Anau : end <to oonneot with the f ormor, and it Is expected that before long the through track will bt sufflolently %d?anoedto eoabla tourlat« to travel by it. Ohbistohukoh, Ootober 18. The remains found In the Okuku river were Identified to~d»y as being those of William Ferguson, reported misting nine moaths ago. He Ilted with his wife and family at Belfast, but owned a seotton at L^burn. He left home at the beginning of the year and his wife heard nothing of him sldob, and his dleappearanoa "waa regoited to the polioe wi.t bout avail, ifter seeing the particulars In the papars t Mrs Ferguson to-day Identified i the boots at the Bunglorn polioe station.