INTERPROVINCIAL.

Bush Advocate, Volume II, Issue 86, 22 November 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

• L_4 ■ : ;•? \ Auckland; $$y. ?2 % . A petition from , unemployed workmen in Auckland and the vicinity, bearing; 218 signatures, is to be forwarded to Mr. Mitqhelson. It sets forth thai the signatones have been for some time working on relief work,:, earning barely sufficient to sustain life, but having now been informed that these works are. to be stopped, and being unable to obtain other work, they will be compelled to appeal ? f or relief to the Charitable Aid Board unless the Government find something for them to do. The particulars disclosed at the. inquest on the remains of the boy Archibald Clark, who, was drowned at ' Gdromandel, are of a' distressing nature. The mother of the deceased actually saw her child's- body floating down the liver, but could do nothing to save him. The Stella has returned from, a cruise among the Auskland Islands. Captain Fair child] a year; ago placed as an experiment "twenty-five sheep on the islands, and be reports that they have increased dkukdred per cent, and that the lambs are healthy and hardy. "Wellington, Nov. 21. Mr and Mrs Agnew,*%ho were [ recently bound over to keep the peace for insulting members of the i Government, were given into . custody this evening for insulting the Premier. : The Premier expeots to leave for South accompanied by -Mr Mitohelson the first week in Deoomber for the purpose pf paying his promised visit to Otago to inspect the route of the Otago Central railway. ' §.. \ | The " Crown Lands Guide, "^tie publication of, which has not: been made for some years, will be again ssued shortly. ... CHBisTOHUjaoH, Nor. 21. A local candidate in the shape of Mr J. Woodward is out to oontesfc the Lincoln seat. -,V . s:V V A girl, three years old, daughter of Mr William Geeson, was drowned in the river Waiau about noon today, '■••■■ :■■ ■■ ■■ , :, ' v-T'r DuNEDIN, NOV. 21. Miss Cornwall aooompanies Mr Phil. Eobinson on his visit to Dunedin next week in the interests, of the Schanschieff eleotrio light. ' At the Balclutha Police Court Joseph Valentine was committed for trial for the murder of an illegitimate child. .-, ....-.._'