INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
[PBB UNITES PEEPS ASSOCIATION.! , Auckland, . This Day. ; • During- ft heavy, downpour of rain 1 on Saturday evening, a steam launch,- belong-! ing to the Japanese corvette Ttmkuba] "#as taken under the Queen-strewt wharf iox shelter^ Bhe>^ lay_dire.c,Uy . under a sewer which, suddenly gave out a.treroendou« rush of water, caused by the heavy rain; and; before the launch could be! hauled offi she filled and sank. The crew, escaped by -clinging 'on to the stringers of the wharf. .Later on, the launch pumped oot, : and raised, apparently little the -worse for her immersion. ! . The City- iConhoil fiftfc introduced aj by-law re street obstruction, believed to; be levelled at ) sjrppresssing Salvationists; holding, services in the public streets. The churches 'practising open-air preach ing hfcve taken the alarm, and petitions; against the proposed by-law been; "signed in all the city churches. _ ; 1 ■•:;<-:,-.- '-WEiit'iNfftoiTi'^iftDay/ ; A coal deposit has been discovered at] Airaroa. | ;Mr B. $dwards, Dr Newman, and Or Fuller are Mentioned as candidates' for the Tbor.ndpp.seaf;.. j It r is stated that a y cablegram 1 if 'to be seri^tp -Mr Gisborne in England asking if he would Jbe willintj to stand. "Mr 'Gisbprnii Tb l "*expecfed 'to returu to WellingldnistiSrtly. '■<[ ri"v/""~r ;^"'">/^^r^i?^>ay.' j A bouse ofped ; by , Harden occupied! by LunaVerg,' w«s burned down last night >by ihe upsetting of a kprosene. lamp, irW'ihawr&i^oT £160j in the Union. , , -its. i.jj -O'i^eW WftiiffiT&Whis&i^ \ I : the ! Wanata; Uie I ! 'firsl W'j&jt, Uoipni Company's steamers' Wit has vgV>ne)albrig'side the breakwater,' discharged cargo; and em Wrked :pa^ehg«hff 'her* on Satur. ; day. She had more than four feet of. water jinfler'ii'tft.n >-H A , -V I CHBiSTCHrscHrTnis Day. ( The Blue Ei obqh 1 Executive hare ar- ; fniiged a conference fox 1 Monday^b'fdr'm. . ally receive Sir';Willi»m Pox and pnrpo»O; cntertainingfhim aVdinner in the evening. '-:■*.:■■ \ :\? ?•» »•,." -DrNKDiy, March 24. \ II A : serious 'icdideri t happened on Fiiiky evening Vi the 'retrigeratihg machinery t)f the Ruapelui, the engine; breakiu ? d^wn. -Mr, Cpxoni resident *gent for Haslem and Cp., on iniippetipn found that the bed plate of the engine was broken! Asto repair the domrge in the colony 'would deiain the ship too long^ it j has been resolved to postpon it till she ■ gets Home;- The Ruapehu will le*Te ; for Lyitelton at 11 a.m. to-day, where ihe ' will iranship th» beat to the Ibniei : !
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 35, 25 March 1884, Page 2
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