INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 59, 3 November 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[Specially Telbgeaphed to Stab.] i per united press association. j * ■ Auckland, Last night* Young Woolcott, Joe the Fijian's first victim, has been pronounced out of dan- . ger, and has left for Fiji. A child named Williamson has died from the effects of eating matches. The first series of rifle matches, to test the relative merits of existing sights and targets as compared with Soail's system of white sights and black targets, took place at the rifle range last week, and was in favor of the hitter. No entries have as yet 1 been received by the local secretary for wool exhibits-at the Melbourne Exhibition. Wellington, Last night. • Mr. C. Johnston declines to stand as mayor for this city. ' The Government have arranged that all articles intended for. the Industrial Exhibition at Duhedin, in 1881, will be conveyed free all over the colony. * ' The Government have' commuted the capital sentence on Joe, tbe Fijian,**wbo recently murdered Mr- Bees near Auckland, to imprisonment for life, on tbe ground that the prisoner had had fits of insanity twice previously. , . . , An inquest has been held on the body of Mr. Batkin's son, who was killed by a roller passing over him on the cricket, ground afcthe College, and- fracturing but skull. Tlie jury returned a verdict of $ ." Accidental death." •■• % ' )' , _ „ Mastebton, Last night. ' ~~s The railway to Mf&tertoiJL was. opened '> ysßteraay^Tfie tfflin, with ftbb^gQO ; excursionists, arrived at L 4£ p.m,, and ••

\ i i ii urn — 1 :*&p'm6t by about- 2000 people. A good many more would have gone, but there •were not enough oarnages provided. • . Chbistchurch, Last night. Th» Waitangi, the first wool ship of the getuoxf,- sailed on Saturday for London, sad took l«50 bates t>i -wooL Tne privileges in connection Trifcfc the forthcoming Agricultural Show realised over .EBOO. "■ ■ - Toiabtj, Last night. Over i! 250 was taken at the gates at the Agricultural Show last week. The bazaar in add of the new Episcopalian Church closed om . Wednesday. The receipts were £1000. Dqnkdin, Last night. The Hon. Mr. Rolleston, in a letter to Mr. J. C. Brown, M.H.R;, states that the -Government are not in -a position, at present, to accept any more applications for nominated immigrants.