INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
[PEKBB ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, Saturday. The settlers in the Waimamaku Valley. Hokianga, have resolved that no rent be paid to the Crown Land! Board until the roads have been pna a oondition to enable them to get milt io the faotory. _ L , WnANGABBi, Batorday. At a bioehronoaoope entertainment last night one of the elms caught fire, and a panio was narrowly averted, me i audienoe made a ruih for the doors, women fell down, and some fainted. Prominent: residents wore instrumental in oalming the people. The entertainment then proceeded, no damage having been done. Wkllinoton, Saturday. Lieutenant Calloway, the smallpox patient, was releaßßd from qn&rantins yesterday. - , The Wellington CityCounoils eleotrioal engineer left for Europe to-day to purchase a plant. Dbnedin, Saturday. George Coates, aged 22, met with a tragic death this morning. He went
to a dance at South Dunedin last night, and at 3.30 a.m. arrived back at the hut where he lived. About 5 30 William Dunford, on whoie property the hat was, diaoovered it to be on fire and nearly burnt to the ground. Theremains of Coate> were burnt almost to a oinder. They were discovered with the boots on the feet and it is conjeotured that deoeaied fell asleep before undressing and knocked over it candle. He ii uaid to have been quite sober when going to bed. James lated,Bo years, wbb drowned in a dam near Tapanui. He appears to have attempted to oro«» a raoe near theentranoe to the dam and become oonfused. Ho leaves a grown-up family. Ikvebcabqiljl., Saturday.
Mr St'Carthy, 8.M., «entenoed M'Donald, the priioner who ran away from the hard labor gang while working in the publie garden», to tir months' imprisonment with hard labor. M'Donald was awaiting trial at the Supreme Court on two oharges of petty theft, and had oleoted to work with the gang in preference to being eonflned to - ! gaol. =2=-— —s—===
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12266, 13 October 1902, Page 2
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316INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12266, 13 October 1902, Page 2
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