INTERPROVINCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 2450, 2 September 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

ArcKLAND, September 1. Mr J. R. Cox, M.P. for Ease Clare m the House of Commons, and Irish delegate to the colonies to collect funds for the Home Rule cause, arrived to-day by the Wairarapa from Sydney. At; the Magistrate's Court Mrs Harding was fined £25 and costs or a month's imprisonment for sly grog selling at the Temperance refreshment rooms m Manners street. A second charge was withdrawn. Notice of appeal was given. Afc noon to-day the dead body of a man named John Ford was discovered hanging by the neck. The deceased was a fish hawker, sixty years of age, and resided m Parnell. For some time past he had been suffering severely from rheumatism. \ Mm Ford found her husband hanging at the back of the dour m the betlroom. He had got a staple and driven it into the wall and hung himself with >\ clothesline, He left the following letter addressed to his wife : —"My dear wife,—When you get this note I will be no more. Poverty and ill health caused me to commit the rash act. I tried to work yesterday, but could not. I have brought trouble enough on you. Th■> t landlady said I was at work, and i was not. I have just brought you Is 6d.in eight weeks, so good bye <md God bless you. May God have mercy on me." Wellington, September!.. A deputation, representing the eight hours demonstration, waited on the Government yesterday evening, urging that October 28th should !>e declared a public ! holiday, as was the case laot year, on the occasion of the labor demonstration. The deputation pointed out that it had been ascertained that the day named would be suitable for Auckland and Dunedin, but no reply had yet been received from Christchurch. The Hon. W. P. Reeves, m reply, said he could not definitely promise to grant the request, buthe had little doubt that it would be granted, on ■ the understanding'that next year the whole question would be taken into consideration whether the day was suitable to employers as well as employees. ■ Dunedin, September 1. The Roxburgh Amalgamated Company obtained 1320z of gold for the week. In a special case stated Mr Justice Williams decided that the Oregg Company, of Dunedin, have not infringed the rights of the Coote Company, of Welling" ton, m respect to "tea labels. The Bruoe County Council yesterday passed a resolution protesting against the increase of the honorarium to members of the House, also against the taxation proposals, especially the graduated" tax. It was also iecided to communicate With Mr J. W. Thomson, M.H.R., asking him to convey to Mr John Bryce the Council's deepest sympathy with him owing to his nnfair treatment at the hands of • the majority of the House, and their regret that the colony should be deprived of his services aba time when men of his stamp can ill be spared, a