INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 5, 28 April 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

M [PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.] • Napieb, Tuesday night. Shaw, rate collector for the Corporation, has been arrested for setting fire to the Corporation Building, and remanded. He confessed that be bad embezzled a large sum of money, and it was ascertained that the prisoner had bought kerosene from Mr. Manoy's store on Saturday. Shaw is well coneected, and has a wife and large family, for whom' great sympathy is expressed.

Auckland, Tuesday night. The Auckland Volunteers intend holding a review and sham fight on tbe Queen's birthday. They will probably invite tbe Thames Volunteers to be present.

Wellington, Tuesday night. The Government have received advices from London that £1,100,000 of the Five Million Loan has been converted into 4 per cent, inscribed stock, under tbe Consolidated Stock Act, 1877.

It is stated here that Mr. Hislop, member for Waitaki, will resign his seat, owing to pressure of private business.

Longhurst, who was sentenced last session to ten years and two whippings, received the first twenty-five lashes this morning. He bore it unflinchingly, but; suffered severely. The report of tbe medical examination denies that the prisoner suffers from heart disease. The steamer Manawatu, which broke down on her trip to Wanganui, was towed into port on Saturday morning. The injury done is that the crown of the boiler has fallen in, It is stated that a stvict inquiry will be held as to tbe circumstances connected with the damage. The delegates of the Working Men's Small Farm Association express themselves greatly pleased with the land which they inspected at tbe Forty MileBush. The object of tbe visit was to ascertain if the land was suitable for a special settlement. The Civil Service Commission has divided- into two parties, one going to Auckland via Taranaki, and the others going via Napier. After a visit to Auckland they proceed .to Nelson and Blenheim. The Wellington Hotel was broken into on Sunday morning, and about £40 abstracted. The police are investigating, the matter. A married woman named Jane Angus, aged 70, was found drowned en Sunday. She was last seen alive on Saturday night, when she left a friend's house to proceed home, and it is thought that she, being short-sighted, walked over the breastwork near Oriental Bay. Chbistchubch, Tuesday night. A fire took place on Sunday morning ' just before 12 o'clock, at the corner of Durham and Tuam streets, near St. Michael's Church. Tbe wind was blowing from the south-west at the time, and Beveral cottageß were burnt down before tbe fire brigade could master the fire. The scene was s nest of small and old • wooden houses, luckily of no size, as had there been a large body of fire, Mr.. Reeves' timber yard, close at band, and in tbe track of tbe flames, would probably have caught. The insurances are not known at present; neither is the origin of the fire. The wife of Mr. John Manson, a respectable farmer, committed suicide, by banging herself yesterday. The deceased had been despondent for some time.

Dunedin, Tuesday night.

It has been stated, on what appeara good authority, that the police have fresh evidence that Butler was seen near the premises of tbe murdered people on. tbe morning of tbe murder.