INTERPROVINCIAL

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2886, 13 January 1891, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

(UY TKL'-'OliAl'll — PKKJ-S ASSOCIATION). TWARTJ. Last Night. The Harbour Hoard's new tug, Mann, arrived on Saturday evening, from Greenock. (Augusts). She came out under sail top sail schooner, rigged, and had very fine weather for the passu "-o. She called only at St. Vinuwit Isbinds. Tim tug is 120 feet displaeement. and :S(i7 tuns, and has engines of (500 horse power. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. John Williams alias Allen (negro) and John Henry Bead alias Frederick i'lythe were charged at R. M. Court to-day with eseajjing from custody jit Mil ford Sound, where they w-re with a "anc of prisoners forming the road to'wiiakatipu. Both pleaded guilty and were remanded for eight days for the evidence of the Milford gaoler. Tin; prisoners escaped on the oOth., and walked from Milford Sound to the head of Lake Te Anau, 00 miles, in three davs. through drenching rain and with'nothing to rat. They found ii steamer I here and told the captain they had left th ir mates at Milford. They came down in her to the foot of Te Anau. and since then have been knocking about at different stations looking for work. Th ■ poliae received information on Friday, and cousbibl-s were despatched in different directions, the part vnnderUele 'fiveMadd.-m gettiu" oil their tail on Saturday, at li DO p.m., and arrestnig them in the'-he,re;'s - siied at the old VYaird;i Station before dark. The pri-oners had obtained a change of clothing from some station hands. They both sta e they would never go through the same e::pe:i-nce i.gam to gain their liber;y. Tiie Victoiia Ma,sonic T.edg,; carried unaniiiioiisly the fu'dowi'ig resolution : " That, i . crmseq/i.mce of the v/nnt of unain'inity amongst New Zeal.md Free!iia.;o'i-' whereby uumasonic feeling had been engendered and I'raler'.aal inffircoarst' restricted, this bolge respective suggests for the favo'iirabl • eousid ration of the Grand r,od"e of Eugl.i'i 1 thai rer-.-.tinirion be extended lo >li" Grand Lodge of N '\v 7. ■a.atid wiih as little delay as pos sible. NEfv PLYMOCTTIL "List Xight. Injector Pa.i-.ly vi-i'ed Parihak-i on We.bi'-.sda.v ea-'ih' purport o'cone,.v';T- to Te W. i'i audTolui t>' rtrairs M-'Loi-daudL-idy Onslow, which ihe Governor has <?■nt as a laciuento of hi? pie sant to the. unlive village. I'h" chiefs iirii greally pleased at the nres-Mitsor tlv p'e.oi-ngraphs, which are large .-m-I nicely framed. BilL'XXEirrOX. Last Night. Thomas K' une-'ly. belonging to f.limeiii-a me! v ith" >■'■ fa'al accident at t>e Tb-auifi- mine last night. He w-'S eny-aged ji'.-giug titiets. when the trucks'iki'i v.-ei-r running do jvn the bank bc'Mne unshackled and he was eau-Jit, bv them and killed. CVI f 11ST-' '■ fa iIHO M. La st. Ni-ht. The Cart'in of the Kaihu reports that a.mong the wreckage found at the Chatham Islands were -Maori weapons, curious carved bowls and candles (presumably purl of Wultiii- Bulior's collection) ; cask of oil (ic over Napier); ships rojkels. hatchets, &a. At, the Chathams ir is reported that a large quantity of cased goods are visible in horns of the rocks to the South-East if the islands, but they are not approachable except iu very Hue weather. Colonel Anderson has reason to expect that 27 men will leave here to compete at the rifle meeting at Napier,