INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 123, 18 June 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(per united press -association.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night. The ligllthouse-keeper at Nelson found a dead whale twenty-six feet long floating in the bay a day or two ago. It is surmised that it was killed by a steamer, as the fore part of the head is battered in. It is estimated that it will yield £100 worth of oil. In answer to a question put by Sir Or. Grey on Wednesday, the Premier stated that the Detached Squadron would only visit the Port of Auckland in New* Zealand. At an open air meeting of unemployed

UVas decided to petition the Minister of Public Works for work.

The appointment of the three agents under the Consolidated Stock Act, 1877, lias been revoked. In consequence of the outbreak of small pox in Sydney, the New Zealand Government have, after considering an official telegram from the New South Wales Government, decided to proclaim Sydney and Port Jackson infected places. DUNEDIN, Last Night. At the City Court, John Anderson and Edward Hughes were charged with burglary, and were remanded. At the gaol Hughes made a voluntary statement to Inspector Weldon implicating himself and others, and took the Inspector to Ocean Beach, where he unearthed from the sand-hills a bag containing a large quantity of stolen property. The result of the race for the Epsom Gold Cup has been received here by cable :■— Bend Or, 1 ; Robert the Devil, 2.

AUCKLAND, Last Night. A man named W. H. Matheson, who had been missing for several days, was found drowned m the Tauranga harbor. John Smith, owner of race-horses, was fined £50 at the District Court, in consequence of one of his horses kicking a lad named Johnston and breaking his arm. It appears that Johnston was playing football in the Albert Park Reserve, and, in following the ball, got too near the defendant's horse (Tim Whiffler), who kicked out and broke his arm. Damages were laid at £100.

A communication signed " Clanwilliam" was read at the City Council meeting, to the effect that the movements of the Royal Squadron, with the young English Princes, are quite uncertain. An old lady named Mrs. Donnelly, living alone at her residence at Howick, was found therein. From appearances, it is supposed she fell down dead in the act of taking her tea.

Mr. Justice Gillies has been appointed arbitrator on the disputes between the City Council and the Harbor Board.

At noon, at the North Shore feny, the Company's steamer Takapama ran into a cargo boat, and sank her. The master, Patrick Green, clung to the steamer's paddle-box till rescued.

C. Clark, a cadet in the Telegraph Office at Russell, disappeared suddenly last evening. He is supposed to have cleared out by some vessel.

THAMES, Last Night.

An information has been sworn by Mr. H. E. Campbell, solicitor, against the editor of the Star for allowing a paragraph to be inserted calculated to cause a breach of the peace, and asking that the editor may be bound over.

NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. Elder Sorenson, the Mormon missionary, has gone to Parihaka, with a view of converting the natives to his faith.

CHEISTCHUROH, Last Night. The Agricultural Association have decided to offer a valuable prize at their" next exhibition for the best samples of New Zealand twine for reapers and binders.