INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10070, 11 February 1909, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

• (Per Press Association.) WELLIXGTOX. February 11. The obsequies of the late Mr Hone Hefce commenced this morning, when the body 1 was taken by rail to Otaki, where a tangi • is being held to-day. To-morrow the re- " mains Will be taken on to Wanganui, ' and finally to Kaikohe for interment. The • Native Minister has gone to Otaki, and ' [ may go on to Wanganui. The s.s. Tutanekai returned to Wellington this morning from an unsuccessful search for the Rio Loge. She zigzagged i to the Chat hams and back, and found no wreckage anywhere. > DUXEDIX. February 11. For to-morrow's wool sales, the third of the series, 7294 hales are catalogued. CHRISTCHURCH. February 11. j -.The homestead at. Glenrpy, near Glen- • I tunnel, a seven-roomed house, with dairy :i and'storeroom, the property of Mr, Frank •| Hialt. was'burned-down "at. midiiieh.t_._dn '■ I Tuesday. Xotliing-was saved. Tlie'iii-niates-Mr and-'Mrs. Hiatt and their I child—had a narrow escape. AUCKLAXD. February 11. A Maori named Wharematanga, chargod with abducting a native girl under 16. w;is sentenced to two years' with hard labor. WAXGAXUI. February 11. A gang of clever pickpockets and thieves operated very freely at Hawera races yesterday and many purses were extracted from "pockets, the unwary women beins particular victims. The gang is believed to have visited other race meetings. Archibald John M'Xeil. an escapee from the Terrace Gaol at Wellington, and who was captured up the river yesterday, was brought before the Court this morning and remanded to appear at- Wellington on the 19th. XAPIER. February 11. The Chamber of Commerce discussed the Fast Coast railway question and adopted the following resolution: "That the members for the district be requested to urge on the Minister of Public Works the importance of completing the survey of the railway route to Poverty Bay during this summer, in the terms of the promise made to Mr A. L. 1). Fraser during last session of Parliament and to the Chamber by the Hon. Mr Hall-Jones on August 29th last/' The C.C. and D. Company have cabled the following report on the frozen meat market: —"There is a further fall in values of mutton and beef. To-day's quotations —Canterbury mutton 3|d, Xapier, Wellington, and Xorth Island 3__d. Lamb— Second quality. 4_ld. ISeef—Hindquarters, 3d : forequarters, 2_fd."' LYTTELTOX. February 11. Arrived—At 6.45 a.m.—Maori, from Wellington; at 7.20 a.m., Moeraki, from Dunedm : at 8.55 a.m., Aratapn, from Kaipara. Sailed—At 5.15 a.m., lonic, for Timarn : at 10.10 a.m., Storm, for Pelorus Sound. WAIROA. February 11. At tiie S. M. Court, before Mr Barton, S.M.. two half-castes were charged with supplying liquor at- the Christmas feast at Ivhakapi to male and female natives. Fourteen persons consumed eleven bottles of whisky and were all drunk. The defence was that- the liquor was drunk at the place of supply and not taken away to the feast. The Court ruled that the place of supply was Dalgety's licensed wholesale premises, and accused caused it to be consumed at the feast. The fines and costs inflicted amount to £55.