INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 224, 1 September 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Association] . CAPT. TOZER OF THE RINGAROOMA. SMALL-POX. POLITICAL DISSATISFACTION. NEW ZEALAND SUGAR CO. ANOTHER EFFIGY. Dunedin, September 1. As the outcome of the Ringarooma enquiry, Captain Tozer has left the service of the Union Company, and gone to Melbourne. A petition is being circulated in Roslyn asking the Mayor to call a public meeting to take into consideration the line of action followed by Mr. Ross, M.H.R. Napier, September 1. Dr. Jackson and the other attendants of the quarantine station were admitted to pratique on Friday, and are in excellent health. Auckland, September 1. Messrs. Murphy and Federell have returned from Hokianga. They are well satisfied with the blocks selected, and return South on Tuesday.. The New Zealand Sugar Co. commence refining operations at their works next week. Ashburton, September 1.

On Saturday night an effigy of Mr. John Grigg, member for Wakanui, was mounted on a hand cart, drawn by two men, who were so made up as to take the form of horses, and conveyed through the streets of Ashburton in front of a torchlight procession. In the course of the march the processionists halted at the residence of Mr. Ivess (the late member) calling for three cheers for that gentleman, and three groans for Mr. Grigg, whom they called a traitor. The effigy, after being carried round the various streets, was brought to Quill’s Hotel, where it was torn limb from limb by a few excited members of the community. The mutilated parts were collected, re-stuffed, and carried to the front of the Somerset Hotel, where they were burned, amidst the exulations of those present.