INTERPROVINCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2904, 21 February 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wklungtqst, February 20. 'The colonial revenue has received a windfall in the way of £35,000 stamps duty just paid iv England by the execu-. tors of the late A. Tollemache on his Hawses Bay estates. Mr Mackay, of the labor bureau, re? ports on the proposed state farm at Otauakapua, 43 miles north of Feildins that the quality of the soil is good and feitile. About 180 acres are open land, fit for the plough ; the rest wooded hill*. The Government are receiving numerous applications for land on the Cheviot estate. A man, named Robert Andrews, has been arrested here on a charge of stealing silver ware from the Criterion Hotel, in 11887. The hotel was burned down that year, and the goods supposed to he lost in the fire, but they were afterwards found in another hotel, whose landlord said Andrews, who was cook of (he Criterion, had sold them to him. Andrews has been living at' the Hutt for a year past, Wkstport, February 20. Heavy rain fell to-day. The railway line is flooded to the depth of a foot eight miles from to wn, No damage is reported.