INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1355, 30 September 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, r ep ember 29

Creat Barrier Island is again coming in to notoriety. A c nstable has been despatched there to arrest a bnshman who threatened to shoot another. He is alleged to have said, it was a great pity Geffrey bad gone away so quickly, as ho should have had a mate.

Intelligence is to hand from Tanpo. to the effect that Ruapehu and Tongariro are quiet. The appearance (seen from Matamata yesterday was a pile of o ends, mistaken for steam. To-day a good view of both mountains Was obtained.' They were thickly covered with snow. Tongariro was steaming, but no more than usual. There have been no earthquakes nor alarming signs of any kind. Napier, September 29.

The foundation stone of the new St. John's 0 lurch was laid to-day by the Bishop of Waiapn, in the presence of a large assemblage of olerg/ and laity. The church is to cost £l6 OCO, without the tower, and will be the largest church‘in the colony It is larger than the Ohiistchurch Cathedral as it now stands, and very little leas than the cathedral will be when the latter is completed. It wl'l seat comfortably 1100 persons in the main building, In addition to a chapel, which is to be bn lit as a memorial to Biship Williams. The materials are brick on conorets foundations, being finished in heavy woodwork. W elunoton September 29. The Commssioner of Trade andCustoras has given instructions for p ogress pay - merits to be made on a;o not of the bonuses authorise 1 by the “ Fisheries Bnconragment Act, 1885," on quantities of not less than one ton in weight Claims will have to be made in accordance with the regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th November list, and to be sent through the Collector of Customs at the port from which the fish is exported.

The Gov rnment have received a number of specimen Insulators, including several of colonial make. They will all be subjected to rigid Inspection before a decision is come t >

Mr Andrew, who lately obtained the commission offered to colonial applicants, has applied to Government to obtain an exchange Into an Indian regiment instead of Ireland. His letter has been referred to the Governor, who has been asked to see how far effect can be given to the wishes of the applicant Mr Bailey, Chief Sheep Inspector, has gone on a visit of inspection to Wharearaa, where scab Is supposed to have broken out. The department believe that it is not a fresh outbreak, but that tbe disease had not been eradicated. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court today, the Goar Mev Preserving and Refrigerating Company was charged with having sold Native game af'er the expiraUon of seven days from the closing of the season. From the evidence, it appealed that the game in question had been killed be'# e the c’ore of the season, being kepi in the frt z*n chamber, but the police contended that unless the gams were protected it would open a wide door poaching. For the defence, It was not denied that the game had been sold, but it was maintained that the Act was really Intended to prevent the desire.ion of game during the breeding reason, and as defendant Company had obtained the game lawfully they wore entitled to dispose of P. After argument His Worship said that the fact that the process of nature bad been arrested did not appear to alter the character of the thing sold, and that it seemed t > him that the sale of game out of season, whether in a frozsn state or not, was an effsnee under the statute A fine of one shilling and cos’s was Icflictel. At four o’clock this afternoon Charles

Oheymol, wine merchant, racent’y adjudged bankrupt was arrested on three informations f>r forgery and issuing a certificate for deposit of goods in the Queen’s bond. The first Information charges him with altering the oett fioate frr a coitain number of casks of port wine, and a third is with reference to ten cases ot brandy. The alleged offences took place in January and February of the present year. He was brought up at Court this evening, and remanded till Wednesday. Ball was granted in two sureties of £250 each.

The charge of larceny preferred against the O.iok family occupied the Magistrate’s Court again to-day. One charge against the father for stealing property belonging to the O vernment was dismissed. Two of the male children, aged respectively eleven and o’ght years, were ordered to be sent to Burnham Industrial school until attaining the age of fifteen, and were a’so ordered to be privately whippad. Further cases were then gone into, and laitad till 11 pm. The father was committed for trial on three charges of receiving and stealing, and the mothor and seaond daughter on two charges of receiving and stealing respectively.