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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 124, 2 May 1883, Page 2

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INTERPROVINCIAL.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Invkroargill, May 1. Burglars are at work here. The shop of J.-P. Service, grocer, m Dee-street, 'was broken into by th 9 back door between Saturday nnd Monday, and a small sum m the till was appropriated. Nabbige and Co.'s drapery store waR also attempted, but without success. J. H. McDonald, storekeeper, one of forty-six applicants, secuml the appointment ot Secretary to the Southland Farmers' f'q-Pperative Association. Charles Sullivan who was sentenced at the late sittinsr of the Rnpretne 1 ourt to. twelve years a"d two floggings for rape, has received the first instalment of his punishment, It was inflicted by a person imported for the purpose, and was acutely felt by the prisoner. , . Auckland, May 1. A man named TJout, a clerk at Push gum, store, Northern Wniroa, showing signs of mental aberration, was con" veyftd to the: asylum, and attempted Buicide m th« police cell atKopuru, and twice tried to throw himseli fiom the .ffplonovil -o •♦••rjilßi- - A new Masonic Lodge at Albion, North . Shore, was opened and consecrated to-day with greatest. The Russell police lately hay* been making raids on sly urog.-Rellers, a number having stat ted selling when the prohibition was m force against the natives obtaining spirits at a licensed house. A Chinese gambling housft m Wake-field-street has been discovered by the police. One Chinaman is said to have lost £70 at "fan tan " tc the keeper, and refused to pay up, alleging that he had been cheated. The keeper of the house detained him a prisoner until the police, hearing of the matter, liberated him. Christohuroh, May 1. Milcer and Thompson's new premises were entered on .Saturday or Sunday night, and a cash box with £50 was taken from the strongroom, the door of which was not shut, owing to pome defect. . ... At the Agricultural School, 38 native grasses and several condiraeiital plants are under experimental culture. The same institution is shortly to receive samples of manorial substances and rVeding stiffs, which will make its col* lection the best to be found m this hemisphere. . The Acclimatisation . Society has resolved to ask the New Zealand Ship ping Company to co-operate m the importation ot bumblebees as fertilisers of red 1 clover, the refrigerating chambers of the ship making it easy to import impregnated females. Richard Bowen, who was injured by the fly wheel of a steam-engine last week, died last night m the hospital. At the Kaiapoi Court yesterday, C. E. Dudley was committed for trial for embezzling money belonging to the Harbor Board. Cases are also pandmg against Dudley for malpractice while acting as Town Clerk. The Press this morning says that the belief m the genuineness of the stone-aiscov-3redby J'icobsen.at \lford Forest, is gradually gaining ground.

. JUujskdin, May 1. The doings of the Salvation Army came prominently under the notice of the Bench m respect to two esses heard at the City Court today.. In one instance two men were arrested and punished for intending to disturb the proceedings at the Temperance- Hail yesterday afternoon. Th a other case was that of a subject who had been convertpd and got drunk directly aft«r the service wss completed. At the Kugbv Union meeting on Saturday night the following resolution was carried m reference to the proposed visit ot a New Zealand team to Sydn i y : — *' That the Secretary write to the Wellington Rugby Union, suggesting that more liberal terms should be offered by the > T ew South Wales' foootbaljers, and that m the event of terms beine mutually agreed upon, a match, North Island v. South Island, be played m Wellington or Chiistcbn'r h, with a view of selecting 1 a "Ne^v Zealand team." The miners at Wa'ton Park Colliery who are on strike assert that the best workmen on make only 9 or 10s per d*y of 12 hours. At the annaal meeeting of the local Freethought Association, Mr Stout w<.s re-elected President. T; c Athenaeum subscribers met last night to consider the question of turning the institution into a public library. The Committee recommended that a poll be taken, but the meeting contented itself with a mere pas=ing of a resolution that a public library was desirable. The Court has decided that it is lawful for a publican to supply liquor to a lodger at all times, not only for his own consumption^ but for the entertainment of his guests.