INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1603, 7 July 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

♦ New Plymouth, July 6, The ironworks are otill taming out mfi'al m fair quantity. To-day six tons of pig were obtained m two tappings, and i four ton a more are expected before midi night. Mr Htpkins I 3 highly pleased with the success. He states if £150 more be subscribed he will guarantee to get over £300 woath of metal. An effort is tv be made to get subscriptions, Wellington, Jaly 6. Tb.9 control of the sheep and rabbit depertinent has been transferred from the Colonial Secretary to the Minister of Mines. Allan Campbell, a Volnnteer, charg.d with neglecring to return accoutrements, &0. , on resigning, was again before the Magistrate to-day, but the information v. .\s withdrawn. The Magistrate warned 7olunteerß that they were liable to two months' bard labor for offences of this nature, A deputation from the Wellington Spe. oial Settlement Association waited on the, Minister of Lands with reference to the rights of married women to take up land under the Act m cases where the huaband Is dieqaalified. The Minister thought the proposal against the spirit of the Act, bat would look into the question to Bee If there were any legal reasons against married women taking up land. Mr BaUance Intimated that he intended to extend the two years' grace allowed to Bpecial settlement landholders before complying with the residential condition to three years. Arthur Carter, who recently stabbed himself, will be released from custody on procuring Buretlea for his future good behavior, i DtiNJSDitf, July 6. A lively disoiißsion took plaoe at the meeting of the Dunedin Pre3bytery with regard to the Rev A. 0. Gillies, who tc- t cently resigned the charge of the North Dunedin Church and received a certificate, but has eince conducted service m a hall m the town A motion was made that Mr Gillies be asked as to the nature and pnrpoae of these services, but most of the members were of opinion that It would be unwixe to stir m the matter, ti Mr Gillies ' would soon find it necessary to leave, and consideration was postponed till next 1 meeting At the Supreme Court, Ah You, for wounding a fellow countryman, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Thomas Edwarde, for unlawfully wounding, was found guilty, apd recommended to mercy on the ground of ill treatment at the hands of prosecutor. The latter, it appeared, when assaulted by prisoner knocked him down. Sentence was deferred. John Bannatyne, an old resident at Palmenton, was found dead m bed . • Apoplexy was the cause.