INTERPROVINCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 12626, 4 October 1905, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL

[Fn Qmctbp Pmbb iVssrarnrtHHt ] STRA.TFORD, October 4. George Byrne, saw-mUkr, n» fined £3 for polluting a trout stream by .allowing sa.wxro3t to Sow into it AUCKLAND, October 4. A fire at Prospect terrace, Mount Eden, destroyed a boose ownad and occupied by Mr A. R. Kriasner. The building was inured in the Sun Office for £l5O. Tbe furniture aad effects were akto insnred in the' same office.

TD4ARTJ, October 4. Wxtkk & -vienr -bo tacxngins about yonvpt pa-yinenb of rates, tha chairman of the Levels County Council, at the meeting today, suggested that local bodies) should be given power to give a rebate of 6 per cent, for payment by a certain date. The suggestion wars endorsed by tbe Council, who during the past euc months have paid J383 interest on their overdraft, while they bad over £4,000 outstanding hi rates. GISBORNE, October 4.

At the Police Court John O'Sullivan was extradited to Tasmania to stand bis trial on a charge of child desertion. NAPIER, October 4.

The hearing of the civil action S. S. Woodcock v. J. F. Ludwig, claiming £2OO in respect to damage to house caused by a landslip in August, concluded after three days' trial. The plaintiff contended that fhe slip was due to the defendant directing storm water from his section over the cliff, whereas the defence submitted that the fall was due to an earthquake last year causing a crack in the top of the hill, and to unprecedented rainfall.. Judgment wui reserved-