INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 144, 31 August 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PER UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night. The tobacco, smuggling case against Barnard was chncluded v to-day, and judgment was reserved until Thursday.

An extraordinary esoape from' immediate death occurred oh-the ship Berwick' shir« on Saturday. She is lying at the railway wharf discharging pipes for the Wainuiomata waterworks. A huge pipe, weighing 27cwt;, had teen slung- to a height of 12ft. above the open hatch when the tackle broke, andit-fell directly in a line with where four men were standing. Fortunately, in its descent, it canted, ; an6> was smashed against the -combing, the fragments falling round the four men; not one of whom sustained the slightest injtay. TKe deck was considerably damaged

THAMES, Last Night.

• A fresh outbreak of scarlet fever has taken place here. Two fatal oases occurred on Saturday.' The officer of the Board of Health reports that all families in -which the disease appeared were served with milk from one particular dairy. The medical officer is now investigating the subject.

OAMABU, Last Night. When Augustus, charged with brutally-ill-treating his wife, came up for sentence, Mr. Watf, . the E,M., , said :— " Since the case was lasti before the Court, the matter had been brought under the notice of the Government, and he had been called upon to make i a report. He wouldsend the depositions and -his summary up to .Wellington, and in the meantime would allow the case to' stand where it is."> - Sentence was deferred until .Wednesday, the 7th September.

—NELSON, Last Night. On Saturday a building, situated at the foot of the MouteW Hills, known as the Golden Lion,-and which formerly was an hotel, was, destroyed by fire ; but no full particulars are to hand.' Large meetings were .held here and at Stoke, Richmond; and - Wakefield last night, to consider the Representation Bill and cloture resolutions. Great indignation was expressed,- and resolutions were passed, urging members to still continue their opposition to the Bill and oloture. The resolutions condemned I the .action of the Government, and, characterised the proposal of Mr... Hall as almost revolutionary, as interfering with constitutional liberty, arid -as r -gagging and depriving people-through the Representation, of the sacred and (inviolable right of freedom of speech. The Government was recommended to desist from further persecution, which may convert the most lawabiding community^ . to ' 'an- ( opposite extreme. This resolution was'-'oarried without dissent. Votes of thanks to the Press and the Mayor,, were also carped. " ' AUCKLAND, Last 'Night.

In spite of protest, the Acclimatisation Society sold the, .birds, animals, and plants at the gardens. Many' of them had been presented. . George Kendell was fined _5Q and co^ts, at Hokianga, for sly-grog selling to ! a native woman. • J- .... XT I De Lias op en s with 'Marshall, in Napier, on the 17th September, after> most successful season in AucJJaPd* . .' Tawhiao is considering the r^psab^ty of throwing . open the- -Kawhia Hiirw^ He has removed Ms 1 settlement front Hikorangi Kapita, near Alexandra.