Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 128, 23 September 1896, Page 2

Interprovincial News.

At Te Awamutu in a case, police v. Mohr, charged with selling grog in the King Country defendant was fined £l2 10s and costs. The dwelling house of J. Cumming, Maketu, Auckland district, was destroyed by fire through the accidental upsetting of a kerosene lamp. Cumming's loss is £SOO. There was a £3150 insurance in the Alliance. At Auckland yesterday, two Maoris were fined £5 each, and costs £5 18s, or a fortnight's imprisonment for unlawfully gathering oysters. They pleaded ignorance of the law. At a meeting of the New Zealand Natives' Association at Auckland a motion was carried in favor of the association donating a cup to be competed for at the Championship meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association. Mr A. H. Mason, chairman of the Phangarei County Council, has announced his intention ~to stand for Marsden as aiyOpposition candidate. The Supreme Court opened yestesday before the Chief Justice at Wanganui. Wilson, for t heft, got 12 months' hard labor; Cox, two yews hard labor on two charges, probation being refused; S. Northy three years' liard labor. The Grand Jury threw out the Bill in the case of Regina v. Hogg, alleged concealment of birth. On the application of the Grown Prosecutor the case Regina v. Kenny, charged with maiming o'Gorman at Pahiatua, was postponed to the Wellington sessions oa'Ngmiber