INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 169, 7 November 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL N EWS.

[Specially Telegraphed to Star.] (per united press association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 5. The Government has agreed to pay corporations £ for £ towards hospital anil charitable aid, from Ist April last. DUNEDIN, Nov. 5. Prosecutions under the Gaming Act are going to be taken in regard to the totalisator at a race meeting here. This Day. Outline and Larnach's tender for the i supply of n. million railway sleepers have been accepted. Goldstein v. Goldstein, first case under the Divorce Act of last session, is being heard before Judge Johnston to-day. TIMARU, Nov. 5. Mr. Richmond Beethain has been offered and has refused the resident magistracy of Dunediu. AUCKLAND, Nov. 5. The Upper Thames Hauhaus are said to sympathise with Te Whiti. The body found in the Rona's boat, at Kaipara, is pretty well identified as Capt. McKenzie's. D. Maclise's original painting, "The Spirit of Justice," aud a painting by a German artist of distinction, has been presented to the Auckland Institute by J. T. Mackellar, of London. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 5. The Branch Arms, a small hotel on the Little River road, has been burned down. The landlord was awakened by a dog bursting in his door, and pulling the bed cloth s off him. This saved the lives of the inmates, as the whole building was destroyed in a few minutes. One man jumped out of the window, and another was dra/wed out with difficulty. The insumuces ace small, CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Last night Madame Lottie Wilmofc being refused the key of the Papanui Town Hall, which she had hired for a lecture, assaulted the secretary with a supple jack. On Saturday next a meeting will be held at Leeston to consider the advisability of bringing forward a candidate to oppose the Hon. John Hall. Mr. C. G. Stead, now in England, has purchased twelve thoroughbred mares, one yearling colt, and has shipped them for Lyttelton. WESTPORT, This Day. Captain Williams' new steamei*, the Westport, arrived here from Cardiff, at 10.80 this morning, after a 62 days' passage. There are ten passengers. All well. She sails for Wellington to-morrow morning. The Kennedy has arrived from Caswell Sound. There are sixteen men working ;here. The marble is highly spoken of by ;he steamer's people. BLUFF, This Day. The ship England's Glory has just gone ishore behind the Bluff hill. It is a fine lay, but the ship stood too close in shore f o o get a pilot aboard. She will become a '1 ou.l wreck. I b