INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1821, 8 March 1884, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

DUNK I JIN, Tlnusday. A Aihi,Ti v <: of the Otago \ Jgilai.cc Committee wat lit Ul today. Tlic business \\ as to consider the refusal of the Uo\ eminent to accept a tendet after ad\eitising for tundcis for the extension of Poit rhalnieis Railway Wharf. Me&sis Macandiew, Fi&h, and Bathgate, wheic the punupal speaker, and the following lesolution was earned :—" '1 hat the extension of L'oit Chalmeis Railway Wluiif is a \\oiK essentially necessaiy foi the aeeoniinodation of dnect steamships, and the (io\ eminent nic theiefoie uigentlj lt'ijuiitd to accept a tendei for the eonsti uction of the extension ail set tised.' The Chan man, the Hon. \Y. H. Reynolds' was letjiiestfd to communicate theiesolution to the (!o\eminent.

Fnday. Last evening an infant about three months old, and wiapped in a shawl, was left on the doorstep ot atsol^s Hotel. The police aie making enuuines into the matter.

NKW PLYMOUTH, 'Iluu&day. The Taiaiiaki Heirild's ricmn corespondent mhos: —"l have just iccii\ed information th.it Helena .uul paity ha\e tinned the Eiuopeans oil the coal mines at MoUtiu, and c.uioed them down to the month ot the inei. The. natnes have tin own the coal that was got into the nver." —-

(iIiKYMOUTH, Tlmisday. A telegiam fiom A haul a lepoits the netting ot a female balnion, turning the se.ile at lOjiUs in the Ahaiua Ri\ev yestenlny, A good authouty pionounccd that tlieie was no doubt ns> to the species.

CHHIsTCHUKCH, Thuisrtay. A ss t ot the C'onit ot Appeal was held today, I'oioie the ir JJonois the Aclintr Lliici Tustico, Justice Johnston, and Justice \\ illiaiu&. Jlunt \. Uoidon — tlurli^nii'iit uas given in favour ot Sir Aitlmr < Jonlci), except a^ tv tlieiulo for a iich tnal, w Inch tliu (/'ouit disiliaiged. M\ s h,ud obtained leave to appeal to the I'iny Council. Kiiilay. The lion ) 1' Peacock »i\ cs I'lOu' for a tiophy to he < ompetul foi at the No sinihi'i Show and Canteiliuiy Ayue-ul-tiualiind I'a-jtoial Association.

O VMAKU, Tlmiwlaj. '['lie Pun ,\i\(l Ewe l''.tn to <lay was a jiio.it biicLL^s '1 lieu 1 weie upwaulb oi 000 sheep enleied, ot \auous bleeds, and will) few e\ee|>tions tin y weie all sold at STtlsf.lctOl J |IIIIC3. I'lll'lO A\dS a idlgC 11 miilici of liiecdc i& fiom ofchoi prut 1 - of the I'olrni) pi("-i'j]|, the top pnco of tlit 1 sale 'icinu paid liy the lion. J Maitm, of Wulluigtiiii. Thii ii LhoHi^l yt'ju of the f<m , «md it w.i* not .mtieip iti d, in eonse ((ULiicc, tli it the fan would !>e as succubs ful ab it was.

l5\L( I Li;nrA, Fnday. A house of ten 100111^, occupied by JNIi Moss Nantes as a pnvate school, was buinul down tins afternoon. The oii»in is believed to have been .iblios tin own out Itcliiiul tlie kitchen. The building was the nioucity of j\b Asymall, solicitoi, Tniiuka, and beJi«'\cd to be uismed for L'liOO. The fiunituie was mostly .saved, and lnsiut'il in the Not \\ ich Union fen LJOO A house of five I 'joins adjoining, belonging to Mi Kenniant, county eleiK, caught fnu, and was burned down. It was nisuied foi H2oQ in the Noiwich Union, and €50 m the Colonial. The fin ijitiuv and eifects woie saved. They weic insured in various offices.

HAWERA, Furl ay. A fir 3 broke out last ni^'ht in the same ptemises that tlu- Hie ocean ed m on Wednesday moininj; — Suitoi's place — and \\;is on tins occasion gutted, and Ui (jokes' paitly so. IJoljbms, Fiorard and Co., l*i teller, Knij,', and others loose, oumg to iciiio\aloi poods. C'ncuniatanccs ati j so suspicious that Suitor was aiu-sted on a ch.u jje of aison. He was brought up this morning and remanded, £f>oo bail being demanded.