Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Volume V, Issue 1429, 21 January 1901, Page 3

Interprovincial News.

—©. — [by j e leu r a ph.] WELLINGTON. January 21. The Agent General's cables to the Department of AgricnHure :—Average price choicest butter 110s; market steady ; Danish (fallen 8s). Cheese, 53.? : transactions in cheese very limited. Hemp market is firm. Good fair Wellington £'2l 10s; fair current manila £29 10s. Cocksfoot quiet, 3 Is. The Post has the authority of the Acting-Premier for stating that there is no truth in the report published in a Southern paper that the visit of the Indian troops has been cancelled. Mr Ward is advised that the troops will positively visit the colony. John McDonald Russell, an elderly man, cut his throat in a dozen places yesterday, and also cut the muscles of both his kg:-. He died at the hospital thi3 morning. He had been suffering from melancholia. It is ascertained that there are 193 vacancies in the present contingents for South Africa, divided as follows : Second 80, Third 50, Fourth 31, Fifth 26. The men now in camp are being given the option of joining any of these contingents if they desire. Justice Edwards has granted a rule nisi for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus in the Lillywhite case. This will be made returnable at the first sitting in Banco, after a long vacation which terminates on the 31st inst. DANNEVIRKE. January 21. The escaped lunatic, Whisky, was captured by Constable Baker in the bush at Ngapaeruru this morning. NELSON. January 21. Mr Francis Hamilton, head of the firm of E. Buxton and Co., Ltd., died this morning, aged 60. Deceased was well-known in most part 3of the colony, of which he had been a resident nearly forty years. He was formerly in business in Otago and Greymoutb. .Nearly twenty years ago he bought the Nelson business, and has resided here since. He had been in ailing health for seven years and was confined to his bed for the last three weeks. Deceased, who was yery popular, was a member of the Nelson Land Board, and had just received an appointment to the Board of College Governors. He was for many years treasurer and a member of the Board of Managers of the Nelson Presbyterian Church. He leaves nine sons and four daughters. The young man Ward, who was injured by a fall of earth at the quarry on Friday, died on Saturday. Fe received several injuries, any one of which was sufficient to have caused his death. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. NEW PLYMOUTH. January 21. A Maori named Joe Williams, with several aliases, was sentenced to twelve months on charges of victimising two clergymen and tradesmen by false pretences. A charges against the same accused for signing the Hon. Jas. Carroll's name to a cheque for JE6OO was adjourned till the 28th inst.