INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 72, 18 December 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

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fREB V&bTE7>? "PREBS ASSOCIATION". "| 0 .^Wellington, Lastnight. $To satisfactory tender, having been received for the purchase of the Evening Chronicle, the' publication has been suspended. It ia stated that Wharepn, ihe native chiefs who murdered his wife at the Chatham Islands, once' resided in Wellington, having come'- from Taranaki, and that he belongs to the" same tribe, as the condemned native Tuhi, and' is/ also" "related to "him." The Good Templar Conference tesunißd

its sitting to-day, when officers for the ensuing year were elected. A deputation, consisting of fifteen members of the Grand Lodge, waited on the Government this afternoon, urging the strict enforcement of the present liquor law in regard to Sunday traffic. Ministers promised to instruct the police to see that the provisions of the law were strictly put in operation in future. A fire broke out early this morning in an unoccupied building, which was destroyed, along with another cottage occupied by Mr. A. Cutler. Both premises were uninsuredt The origin of the fire is unknown.

"Westport, Last night.

A prospecting party of three men were going up Mackley's Creek, when the canoe upset, and Samuel Jenkins and Alexander" Waddell were drowned.

Auckland, Last Bisht.

The latest news from the Maori King country states that the Kingites have no sympathy with Tuhi. They express satisfaction that he did not escape, and take his trouble there.