INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 57, 27 October 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[Specially Telegraphed' to Stab.]

Wellington, Tuesday night.

Sir Francis Dillon Bell,was offered and has accepted the Agent-Generalship, vacated by Sir Julius VogeUs resignation. He leaves for England almost immediately. • ' At a meeting of the Executive Council to-day» it was decided that the law should take its course in respectf to Ab Le»t Chinaman, who lies under a sentence of death for the Kyeburn murder. Dunedin, Tuesday night. A fire broke out at a boarding-house in View-street, occupied by Mrs. Wilkinson. The premises were completely gutted. It is supposed the cause was the bursting of a kerosene lamp. - Auckland, Tuesday nighfr. The Fijiaus in Auckland are very much annoyed at the murderer Joe being termed a Fijian, when he is a New Hebrides Islander. They are forty in number, and give a week's wages each for the relief of the widow of the murdered man Rees, also for Mrs Arnold, widow, who. was murderously attacked by Joe. Th 9 Northumberland Hotel, at Brury, •was burnt down, to-day. I>uring the fire, the telegraph poih 6JV£BSite tuft Mlding was barat, and the wire fused, •wMcil temporarily interrupted telegraphic communication. ' It is not expected that the Public Works dismissals will affect Auckland. Four clerks in the Native Office have received notice ; and private telegrams report that Major Heaphy retires from Commissionership of Native Reserves. Oamabu, Tuesday night." . A two-roomed cottage, occupied by a family named Murray, was entirely destroyed by fire to-day, at 2 o'clock. There was no one in the house at the time, and the fire is supposed to have originated from a spark from the stove. There was no insurance, and the family are left almost destitute. The present season will be one of the most favorable for wool growers and agriculturalists yet experienced in this district. Chbistchueoh, Tuesday night. The three boys supposed to be concerned in the shooting of Pearce were committed for trial to-day ; bail being allowed- The coroner's jury foxuxd there was do evidenea agaittfit. tneHA. ■ ' A bouse at Ohaka, owned and occupied by James Kinsley, was totally destroyed by fire this morning. The origin of the fire appears to have been through a spark alighting on a towel hung in front of the ' fireplace. The house was insured in the London, Liverpool, and Globe Company for but Kkley will be a heavy loser, «s comparatively nothing was saved..