LATEST PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 47, 25 November 1867, Page 293

LATEST PROVINCIAL NEWS.

The N.Z.S.N. Co’s. s.s. Ahuriri, Captain Flowerday, arrived in port at 6.30 last evening, with the English mails via Suez and Panama. We have to acknowledge receipt of full.files of the Wellington Independent, also three copies of the Morning Post. We append a few scraps of Provincial news :

The Marsland-Hotel, at Taranaki, was totally .destroyed by a fire on the night of the 13th inst.; no clue as to :its origin. The furniture and stock were insured for £7OO in the New Zealand Insurance Company ; the building, which is the property of Dr. Humphreys, in the London and Liverpool Company for £SOO.

: James Wilson' has been sentenced to death-for the murder of. James Lennox, at Headman’s Creek, in August last. ■ The Provincial Executive of Canterbury resolved.to give notice to the whole body of Government clerks that their engagements would terminate on 31st March, 1868. r

; There hare been heavy floods at Greymouth. Two cases of drowning are -already reported. - A telegram,, dated,loth November, .says:—“ The river . Grey is again flooded nearly to the top of the aheetpiiing. The lower township will be -in part under water at high water. There is, however, no great danger.” . A.gentleman, who hastaken deep interest ' in the Tricker case, writes to the Wairarapa r Mercury as follows“ It is rumored that ; anativeintendstomake asfcatement which . willexeulpateTricker, ,indeed the ; Maori • Aold Mrs T. in my; presence that the tale by.-the itialfcaste was ,untrue, and that soon • aU-would;beknown.” ; TheNelaonCadetCorps havebeenpre- , cented with a color. -, •<i: rEleuro-pneumonia haying broken out in Canterbury, :the • penalties.. under “ The ■:Deceased !Cattle Act ” will be enforoed in that Province. ~