INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 36, 11 August 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS-

(PER PBEBS ASSOCIATION). AUCKLAND, August 10. The girl, Edith May George, who swallowed matches, lies in a critical con' dition in the hospital. Mrs Mary Ann Glover, who is at the same institution for the same act, is now recovering. Light fingered gentry, it is stated, have personated employes of the Gas Company in examining meters in order to get access to houses in the suburbs. The Waikato Railway line between Mercer aud Huntly is still in many places under water. The railway authorities, on the representation of a deputation of Auckland merchant?, have arranged to take goods through to the Waikato by getting the s (earner Free'rade to ply be> tween Mercer and Huntly. Dunbdin, August 9. The Commissioner of Taxes is proceeding against three well-known citizens for failing to make proper returns. Wellington, This Day. The proprietor of the Alhert Hotel to-day was fined LlO and costs for selling after hours, and the keeper of a house of ill-fame was fined similarly for >ly grog selling. Pahiatua, August 10. This afternoon a young man, aged '.23, named Menlauhty, was coming from Makuri to Pahiiitua for medical treatment, accompanied by his fathor. When crossing the Tiraumea river in a cage he expired. He had previously resided iv Dunedin. Gisbobnb, This Day. John Richardson, convicted of rape on a very old Maori woman, was sentenced by Judge Connolly to eight years' penal servitude. Thomas Tait, convicted ot indecent assault, to four years' pcual servitude. Nkw Plymouth, This Day. It is reported that the authorities in Wellington have ordered Wallath to be kept in irons till his trial.