INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 143, 27 August 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(per united press association.)

. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Advices by the English Mail announce _ thot Mr. George S. Graham, District ~" Grand Master Auckland, E.C., has been appointed a member of the Supreme Council of England, and as such, with the highest Masonic degree possible, namely, 33rd Professor. Mr. Rolleston, whose death is announced by English niauVwas brother to the Honorable Minister for Native Affairs. TIMABU, Last Night. At Court to-day, -Abraham Moses, and Lewis Moses, were charged with arson, by setting fire to their premises. The accused were committed for trial on the same bail as before, amounting in all to £12,00. . - AUCKLAND, Last Night. Pollard's Opera Troupe left by Arawata for Gisborne. Cloque's "DeCarmeille " ran a fortnight. . ' ' Mr. De lias was awarded £50 damages, and costs, being the full amount sued for, against Carpen, for breach of engagement^ at Wellington. A gum-digger named William Larlrin, formerly of the 70th Regiment, fell into a fire, during an epileptic fit at Wade 1 , and determined to terminate. his sufferings by drowning himself, but ''was prevented by a settler named Hardy. At a meeting of the Local Board of Health, a resolution was passed, condemning the new quarantine regulations, and urging the Government to resort to . cbe previous stringent regulations, as the introduction of small-pox was simply a question of time. It is stated that the Maori king visits Auckland and the Northern settlements in three -weeks' time. Dr. Philson, Health Officer, has written to the Board of Health, declaring that the new regulations re vessels from Sydney provide no protection whatever against the introduction of small-pox. GISBORNE, August 25. Visitors to the Southern Cross ground have returned, and report unlimited a quantities of parraffin. At a general* meeting of the Pacific Company, letting parts of the ground on tribute was negatived. The committee) of advice elected were — Messrs. Tucker, Stubbs, Smith, McLean and Cooper.