INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2586, 7 February 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

♦- (BY TKU'.iiKI'AH.—I'KHSS ASSOCIATION - .) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Justice Wakd continued the civil sitting to-day, and disposed of two cases. Afterwards at the sitting of the Divorce Court, he granted a rule nisi- in the case Birnos v. Barnes and Hinshaw. In the case Harper v. Merdon, an injunction was granted to plaintiff' with costs. At the close of the proceedings, Mis Honour informed tho Bar that he had received an intimation of the termination of his appointment as judge of the Supreme Court on Saturday next. A boy four years old was to-day kicked by a horse outside a blacksmith's shop, and killed instantly. The annual meeting of the Lyttleton Harbour Board was held to-day, and showed tho accounts were in credit £4000, besides a £300 deposit, with appliances in cood order. The .Sailor's Home receipts showed a loss of £00, duo to a falling off in the number of coasting vessels. 215 men had used it during the year. HAWERA, Wednesday. A meeting of sympathisers with the Parnell party was held here last evening, Mr Furlong in the chair. There was a good attendance. Air MoGuire moved and Mr Uuteliinson seconded a motion in favour of Home Rule, which was carried. On the motion of Messrs Barton and Major a subscription list was opened, and over £50 was subscribed in the room. Mr Ballance, M.H.R., had been invited, but was unable to be present. He wrote strongly sympathising with the object, and wishing the meeting success.

WANGANUI, Wednesday. G. S. Philpott, grocer, was this morning fined £25 and costs, for having smuggled tobacco on his premises. DUNKDIN, Wednesday. Tlie Presbyterian Synod meeting today passed a resolution calling on the City Council and Government to put a stop to glove tights in public halls, they being a disgrace to our civilisation. They also passed a resolution in favour of a prohibition clause. At Clyde, Mr Pyke, M.H.R. was presented with a purse of 150 sovereigns, in recognition of his efforts in connection with the Otago Central Railway. Mr Pyke said he would never rest till the Otago Central line was completed to Wanaka. He referred to Mr MoKerrow as an enemy of settlement, and characterised the conduct of Sir Robert Stout and Mr Fish in connection with the railway as inconsistent. The Premier when visiting the district told him he wished lie had visited the Central Otago route before last session, for he had been misled as to the character of the country, and a very different result might have occurred. Mr Pyke spoke of the reduction of the number of members and honorarium as anti-democratic measures that would work evil to the colony, and predicted that there would he a town versus countiy fight next ses- I sioii.