INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2261, 23 October 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(P-nPnasa Association. )

Auokland. Ootober 22. With regard to the cablegram from Melbourne m referono. to Ponds bmtjr boxes, Mr Pond, of tho firm of Pond and Oo„ the proprietora of the patent, says he had nooommuaioa ion at all with Mr Dow, Minister of Agriculture, upon the subjeot. Mr Pond considers that if tue Government of viotoria take advantage of the invention m the way stated suoh a stop will be unjust, aa a Government should n t oommit an aot for whioh he oonld got an injunction m the-, case f p.ivata m dividual**. ! W*_iaw_TON, Ootobet 22 la tho Divorce Ouuet tnis mooing the decree was made absolute m Bomsoh y Boutsoh. Maloolm v Malcolm, aud Brodie v Brodie. In the R.M. Ooort Maurice Ziman pawnbroker was oharged under seotlon 35 of the Pawnbrokers Aot with aooeptlng goods In paw a from a child under 14 years of age and was fined £2 and co-to. This is believed to bu the ficat case of the kind •n the oolony. The poiloe assort tbat ihey have a olue to the robber of the Foxto- Railway Station but anti -Spate a difficulty m aeourlng a oonviotion as only noiea and sliver were taken, _»t the Wellington Agricultural Association s bhow next nudth, tie Governor offers a medal for ihe btst roadster stallion foaled m tho oolony and Bound. Westport, Ootober 22 Au information has baen Md by the polioe against Annie and Onarlotte MoDo well, of Lyell, for m.nslaughter. Tho c.se »rlsei ont of the death of 'be (ofaut child of the former, The oase will be beard at Lyoll noxt Tuesday, Dun-din, Ootober 22 With reforenco to the tragic death In London of William Henry Lewis, who oommltted su olde after being swindled out of his mouuy, the Oolooiui Mutual Life Asauranoe ucomty's representative states that he has ••oartalnod definitely that his puiloj* for £1100 was Iv foro at the time, and it Is aim. at certain the money has boon paid over by tnis time.