INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2696, 22 October 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(BY TKLEUItAFU. — I'UKSS ASSOCIATION.) NAPIKR. Monday. A kike broke out e.irly tin's morning destroying Kirrell's boarding house, Carlyle-street, better known as Bluin's Cottigii, for many mouth-j oeeupied by a widow named Brenton. The inmates barely escaped with their lives. The brigade was promptly on tins spot and prevented the lire from communicating to the adjoining houses. The building was uninsured, but the furniture was insured for £300 in the New Zealand olJice. OHIIISTCHURCFT, Monday. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, J. Lawrensun, for sly grog selling, was fined £20 and costs, or in default one month's hard labour, He elected to go to gaol, Eiirbtyeight members were enrolled to-day into the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, of whom one eonimitteeman secured eighty. It was decided to lend the oil pictures of cx-prcsidcuts of the association for the purpose of decorating the Cauterbury Court at the Exhibition. INVJiRCARUILL, Monday. The house of Mr McKuinou, manager of the Mount Linton Station, Waiau, was destroyed by fire on Saturday. Only the piano was saved. The iusuranee on the house was £SO9, and on the furniture £100, both in the National, half of the lot.ll being re insured in the New Zealand oflice. DUNEDIN, Monday. In banco to-day, Mr Justice Williams gave judgment for defendant in the enso of Ri.'gina (moved by the Chitha County Council) v. Brooks, dealing with a Crown grant issued a quarter of a century ago, which was attacked on the ground of a mistake. The judgment is of special interest to county councils and local bodies.