INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 9471, 16 August 1894, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, August 16.

By the Ruapohu, from London to-day, 118 English immigrants for Taranaki arrived under tlic care of Mr Courtney. They go to Taranaki via Wellington, and ha\ r e been granted railway concessions. They arc not assisted by the Government, and no laud will be given to thcni. Only five men have been actually farming beforo, but sixty-six are farm cadets, most of whom arc pioneers belonging to moneyed families, who may follow. The new settlers arc classified as follows:—7 farm hands, 2 farm couples, 1 saddler, 1 stonemason, 2 coal-miners, 3 female cooks and 1 male cook, 3 servant girls, 3 governesses, 3 housekeepers, 1 barberess, 1 certificated schoolmistress, 1 photographer, 1 clerk, 1 carpenter, 18 unspecified. About one-third of the immigrants have at least £IOO apiece. WELLINGTON, Aunusr 16.

The man who upset the nerves of some timorous people by predicting a destructive earthquake, rinding that some of his proselytes could not realise their property in time, obligingly postponed his cataclysm for a few weeks. He is making preparations to leave the city himself; but in the meantime a member oi Parliament has drawn attention to the matter, and asks for an inquiry as to his sanity. The San Francisco mail is expected to reach here overland at ten o'clock to-morrow night, and the Penguin will probably be detained to convey it South. CHRISTCHURCH, August 16.

At the Police Court to-day W. E. Hanlon was charged with a breach of the Patents, Designs, and Trades Marks Act, 1889, by selling what purported to be "Mother Siegel's pills." He was arrested on board the Kaikoura last night, on the eve of her departure for London. A3 the alleged offence was committed at Dunedin he was remanded to that place to appear on Monday next.