INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 203, 7 August 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Association Telegrams.] SUDDEN DEATHS. Wellington, August 7. David Kenneburgh, a very old resident, died yesterday. At the inquest on the body of Cecilia Hogan, a verdict of death from heart disease was returned. BREACH OF PRISONS ACT. At the Magistrates Court to-day, H. H. Lewis was charged with a breach of the Prison’s Act, in having secreted a number of articles with a view of handing them over to the prisoners in Mount Pleasant Gaol. The prisoner had been convicted of forgery, but had had a portion of his sentence commuted on account of his having accepted the office of common hangman for the Colony, in which capacity he had executed six convicts, his last victim being at Napier. He was sentenced to one month’s hard labor. AUCKLAND GAS COMPANY. Auckland, August 7. The capital of the Auckland Gas Company has been increased by the issue of 35,000 £5 shares. YOUNG BARLOW. The young man Barlow, killed at Bird Grove, would have succeeded to £13,000 worth of property in Manchester, on attaining his majority. ONEHUNGA IRON WORK. The plant for the Onehunga Iron Works arrived by the lonic. THE WAIHORA. The quarantined passengers of the Waihora complain bitterly of the accommodation of the quarantine station. DUNEDIN REFRIGERATING CO. Dunedin, August 7. At a meeting of the Refrigerating Company a report recommending a 10 per cent, dividend was carried, and a resolution passed : “ That it be an instruction to Mr. Begg, as a delegate to the Christchurch Conference, that every effort must be made to get a substantial reduction on freights next year, otherwise it is very doubtful whether a guarantee will be got from the shareholders.”