INTERPROVINCIAL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7737, 17 April 1896, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(PEB AeBOPIATJOM.] ' WisiiiNGiori, TJiia d'o7. The heavy rains whioh have ocoiinred at frequent intervals during laat month and thid proufise to constitute a record. i Gisboehk, This day. .. A.t'rM '4r,h aisout £60 worth,of gooda horn iVi..B.-rd fc!nrgood, Son, and Ewen's cample rouma last night. New Plymouth, This day. At tho Supreme Court this morning Michael Dobeclt, for forgery aud false pretetifies, received th£ee yeara' hard labor. This concludes the criminal biiairieite. Sir Eoberfc atout and Mr Fraaer, of Wellington, addcesaed a Eeohabitea' meeting b\Bt night; :.-. . , ~ . ■•,• . , The Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr Stanford, ruled to-day that a prohibition order figned by two justioes of the Peace was invalid, as such an order oun only be issued 1 by a Stipendiary Magistrate. I Sbbftok, This day. The weathor has bien unusually wet here this year, and much damage has been done to roads ia consequence. A heavy slip 00----carred. at the Keep-It-Dark mine on Tuesday night. A mass of timber and mullook slipped away from the hill above tho mine. It smashed the poppetheads and the old winding wheel; the blacksmith shop was also carried clean away. Ho one was injured. A portable engine has been ordered from Greymouth to bail the mine. Several other slips occurred in the immediate vicinity, and did slight damage. Mr O'&egan delivered a pre-seasional address at Black's Point last night. He strongly favored a referendum and a polioy of free trade, and direct taxation. The unomployed difficulty was due to the artificial ecaroity of land, the result of a syttem of ignoring the national right. He would stand against all comers at the next eleotion.