INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 11725, 7 April 1902, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Pir Unitbd Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, April 7.

Admiral Beaumont and the officers of the squadron attend a ball at Government House on April 15. The squadron -will probably leave Auckland on the following day. The Governor remains in Auckland till the end of May, and then returns to Wellington for the opening of Parliament. Constable Irwin, who was severely injured in a street row on Saturday last, w#s unahle to attend the court. John Duffy was further remarkled on the charge of assaulting him. At Zedian, Tasmania, on the 29th ult.. a prospector, Matthias Hagan, was burned to death. He worked in New Zealand over twelve years ago. The gunboat Lizard, when changing her moorings this monung, got athwart the bows of tlic Royal Arthur, but was towed off. Apparently no damage was dona to either vessel.

NEW PLYMOUTH, April 7.

In the S.M. Court this morning six shopkeepers were fined 5s and costs each, for breaches of the Shops and Shop Assistants Act during the band contest week.

WELLINGTON, April 7. Isidore Bohen, an ex-member of the South African light Horse, was sentenced to six months for theft from his employer and false pretences. CHRTSTCHURCH, April 7.

At the Magistrate's Court this morning an Assyria named Shah sued the City Council for £lO. The plaintiff had paid £lO for* an ice-cream vendor's license, and after a time had been prohibited by a bylaw from Belling on a stand. The defence was that an unalterable contract had been entered into. Judgment was reserved. TTMAEU, April 7.

At the Magistrate's Court to-day a fireman belonging to the s.s. Angola was charged by the captain with wilful and ccntmned neglect of duty. The charge was laid under section 17 of the Shipping and Seamen's Act. The information was dismissed, on the ground that wilful neglect cf duty had not been shown, and that there was sulwtantial doubt as to t£e man's physical fitness for the work. NELSON, April 7. James Kerr, an old Waimea West settler, died yesterday, aged eigbty-one. The deceased came to Nelson from Scotland with his parents in the' barque Fifeshire, the first immigrant vessel to Nelson, in 1842. His father was the first man to put a plough in South Island soil.