INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1819, 30 July 1895, Page 3

INTERPROVI NCIAL.

(By Telegraph.)

NAPIER, July 29.

Of the £1200 contributed to reduce the cathedral debt, the Rev. \V. Colenso gave £400. NEW PLYMOUTH, J uly 29. On Saturday the son of Mr Laing, who found the natural gas spring at Inglewood, was experimenting with the gasometer which has been placed over the spring, when an explosion took place and sent the boy into the air. He was picked up badly injured, and it is reported that he is partially paralysed. PALMEKSTON NORTH, July 29. On Saturday a young woman named Alice Josephine Marshall, of Wellington, died after a brief illness. At the inquest this morning the jury returned a verdict of death from blood poisoning. A rider was added to the effect that there are suspicious circumstances connected with the death, which warrant the police m fully enquiring. It was stated at the inquest that the police are m possession of important evidence. WELLINGTON, July 29. The Hon. J. G. Ward has instructed his solicitors to issue a writ against Mr John McQueen, of Knapdale, Southland, claiming £10,000 damages for libel alleged to be contained m a circular issued on the Bth inst., m connection with the frozen meat trade. Fifty-three cases of Martini-Henry rifles came out by the Tainui from London, consigned to the Defence Department. CHRISTCHURCH, July 29. Mr J. V. Colborne Veel died suddenly while attending & meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College today. He came to Canterbury m 1860, and joined the staff of the Press, m 1878 he became secretary of the North Canterbury Education Board, which position he held up to the time of his death.

Mr Samuel Clarkson, formerly well known as a builder, and who arrived | here about forty years ago, died to-day. j The City Council to-night on the recommendation of the finance committee decided that the Rating on Unimproved Values Bill was uncalled for, and that it would be inadvisable to disturb the present incidence of taxation. DTTNEDTN, July 39. George Munro has been committed for trial for forgery of his father's name. There are 1020 entries for the Fanciers' Club's annual show. INVERCARGILL, July 29.

John William Innes was to-day committed for trial on three charges of stealing funds belonging to the New Zealand Pine Company, for whom he acted as accountant at a salary of £4 a week. The prisoner stated that the rumour that others were implicated m the embezzlements was untrue. Bail was allowed, prisoner m £400 and two sureties m £200 each. Bail was not forthcoming.