INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 29, 21 July 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(per united press association.)

Napier Tuesday night.

The scientific expedition to the socalled gold-bearing quartz from Te Aute» shows that it contains no gold. Carterton, Tuesday night.

At the inquest on the fire, which took place at DriscoH'g, a verdict of incendiarism was returned. Auckland, Tuesday night.

■' A great sensation has been caused by the . sudde.n death, of Mr... Grant, the auctioneer. It appears that he went to Mrs. Skeet's house last night under the influence of drink, and she, finding it impossible to get him away, went to bed. This morning Mr. Grant was found lying across the chair quite dead.

Wade's Hotel, owned by Maurice Kelly, was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. No conjecture can be made as to the cause. The hotel and stock were only partially insured.

Thomas Butt, a miner, was disputing with a man named Martin Danaher about wages,' when the latter gave him several violent blows, knocking him down and hammering him when prostrate. On his attempting to rise, Danaher. threw him down an embankment, and cast a heavy lump of rock at him, exclaiming, " You new chum, I'll kill you." Wellington, Tuesday night.

Mr. George Hunter, late M.H.R., who was seized with a paralytic stroke on Saturday evening, still lies hi a critical condition.

The Civil Sittings of the Supreme Court commenced to-day. The case of Climie v. Corporation was adjourned till Thursday.

Christchurch, Tuesday night. '

A man named John Gordon has been drowned in the Ashley river, while going £iom Rangiora to Haylind's station.