INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 186, 16 December 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

WELLINGTON, This Da#^ » Ihe returniug officer for Thorndon tcdiy laid an information against the Hon. C. J. Pharozyn for plural voting at the recent election. An inforraatio.n has also been laid against two electors of South Wellington on a similar charge. The cases will he heard on Thursday. A maa named Smith, a laborer, of Alfredtowh', has been arrested at Masterton on a charge of voting twice at the Wairarapa North election. ' PUNGABEHU, This Day. Everything is quiet here and at Parihaka, routine woik kifig the OY'dfir oftb.6 day. " ' DUNEDIN, This Day. Messrs. Blackett and Wilson proceed by the Stella to select a lighthouse site at Waipapa Point, the scene of the Tararua wreck. "Wiia doss ai-G stated to be becoming I numerous in some parta inland. 150 I have been killed on one station during j the last year. INVEBCABGILL, This Day. The returning officer for Wallace, after several scrutinies of the returns, has finally declared Daniel (Opposition) electee? hy a zastjfii'ily of One. The r.B« turning officer's action and decision baVe caused considerable comment, *nd it is probable that Mr. Hirst, the defeated candidate, will take the matter into the Electoral Court. ... TIMARU, This Day. A.t the Supreme Court yesterday, % J\W. Brown was sentenced to fifteen years *$or an unnatural offence ; John JCing, obtaining money under false pretences, one year's imprisonment. BLENHEIM, This Day. A man named Henry Boyce, was killed in the "Wairau Valley yesterday, by the upsetting of a wool dray which he was driving. In coming down a, sideling the dray capsized, throwing several bales ou the top of him. Death was instantaneous. He leaves a wife and four children.