INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10235, 27 June 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(PER UNITED. PRESS ASSOCIATION.). - AUCKLAND. June 26. The Rev. T. Buddie, an old Wesleyan missionary, died to-day. Two thousand persons joined the Blue Ribbon Army in AucklanS and the neighbourhood. The Tobacco Association is • being thrown into a company of 5000 shares at £1 each. Two hundred and eleven acres land have been secured at Pahi, Kaipara. Cigar manufacture is to be at once commenced; enough material is now on hand for the manfacture of 160,000 cigars. There are nine cases for trial at the criminal session on Monday. The Rev. Thomas Buddie's death is attributed to affection of the heart. He was about as usual yesterday, and took tea last night, but shortly afterwards was seized with pain at the heart. The attack increased in severity, and he died shortly after midnight. He has been iu the colony since 1840. MARTON. June 26. Mr Rochefo'rt and party left Marton this morning to survey the central route for a railway. They go along the Rangitikei Valley, and thence west of Ruarjehu. Mr Carkeek will follow along the same route a few days hence as far as Rakatepama, and' will then diverge to the east of Ruapehu. The Government wish to discover whether the route west or east of Ruapehu is best. CHRISTCHUROH. June 26. At a meeting of the Licensed Victuallers Association laßt night, the case of H. Lee, whose license for, an hotel at Wopdend had been taken away on the ground that the hotel was not required, was considered, and a subscription was organised to assist him in applying to the Supreme Court for a mandarmta. Steps were also taken to endeavour to obtain several amendments to the Licensing Act. A slight shock of earthquake was experienced in several parts of Canterbury just before midnight on Sunday. The body found in Hagley Park has been identified as that of Henry Frederick Tonge, who arrived hero about two years ago, and was said to be in reoept of remittances from Home.- He was in bad health recently. No cause can be assigned for the suicide. • This afternoon; hear where the body of a woman was found in the Ashley river last week, a small bundle was picked up, containing a marriage certificate of Mary Hartford, daughter of George Hartford, master mariner, of Belfast, Ireland, with Edward Poole, labourer, at St. Luke's, Oamaru, on April 6th, 1882. The police of Rangiora will be glad to hear from her friends. At the Selwyn County Council meeting to-day the following resolution was agreed to, That the Canterbury members of the House of Representatives be requested to assist the Grey Valley and Reefton members in bringing under the notice of Ministers the injustice of allowing the Westland County Council to collect, tolls at the Otira, over roads entirely maintained out of colonial funds, and under the supervision of a General Government officer and men entirely under his control, and also to the danger of allowing any local body to collect tolls over roads maintained entirely out of colonial revenue. » TIMART7. June 25. The business at the Supreme Court was brought to an abrupt termination this morning by the four remaining civil cases having, at the last moment, been settled out of Court. A special jury had been summoned for one case, and a . common jury panelled for the other cases. Three cases were practically between tho same parties, and the total damages were named as £1000, while the cases were settled by a payment of £50 by one side to the othbr, eash paying their own costs. In reference to the telegram sent on Sunday re the lonic, it should have been mentioned that the Farmers' Associa- : tion have guaranteed to put over 1000 tons of grain into her in two days if she comes to Timaru. . DUNEDIN. June 25. At an adjourned meeting of persons interested in the liquor trade to-day, two petitions were adopted. The first asked that Parliament may see fit to amend the Licensing Act of 1881, so as to abolish the existing system of Licensing Committees, and have Benches as formerly, nominated by the Government. The second asked that the Act be so amended as to abolish the disqualification provisions altogether, and have the punishment of a fine merely, or to leave the question of endorsement to the discretion of the Magistrate. It was agreed to forward them next Friday to Mr Fish, M.H.R. June 26. Hugh Campbell, mate of the schooner Isabella, was drowned last night at Catlins River, through a boat capsizing. The Otago Educational Institute opened its annual session to-day, about one hundred teachers being present. Mr Fitzgerald, of the Dunedin Normal School, was eleoted president.