INTERPROVINCIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1765, 19 September 1885, Page 14

INTERPROVINCIAL.

•, Masterton,, September 16. The Minister, for .Public Works.has promised to reduce the freight on wool on the Wairarapa line from 6s 3d to 5s Id per bale, and also to make reductions on merchandise. <■

Christchurch, September 16. The police have laid an information against a printer and two booksellers for breaches of the Printers' and Newspapers' Registration Act by selling copies of the Pall Mall Gazette's revelations, printed in, Ghristchurch. The informations have nothing to do with the nature of the matter published, but are laidon t the ground that the name and place of abode oi the printer does not appear on the first and last, leaf of the pamphlet.

Ashburton, September 16. A man namid Thomas Smith shot himself here early this morning, ,

Timartt, September 16. Some shepherds, who were recently burning tussocks on the edge of Lake Pukaki, in the Mackenzie country, state that about dusk in the evening they observed a large black object, which they at first took to be a boat keel upwards. On approaching it, however, it turned round and dashed into the water, making a great splash.

Arrow, September 12. A terrible dynamite accident occurred this morning at Skippers, resulting in the death of two, miners named John Tripp and Cornelius Nofman. The men were warming. dynamite at the fire in their chimney when the explosion occurred. Nolman was blown-through the roof of the hut, and Tripp was frighf ully mutilated, dying two hours after the explosion. Both were , unmarried men, and were working a claim on their own account.