INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 261, 14 June 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PBR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. June 12. H.M.S. Nelson leaves to-morrow for Auckland, via Kawau, when her officers will, lor three or four days, be the guests of Sir George Grey. In giving judgment this afternoon in a civil action, F. E. Liardet, a fishmonger, v. George Harris, a baker, tho magistrate said he was of opinion that Liardet had committed most deliberato and wilful perjury, and therefore he would give judgment for defendant, and order the committal of the plaintiff for perjury. Bail was allowed, himself in £100, and two sureties of .£SO each. A deputation, consisting of several members of the House of Representatives', waited on the Minister for Public Works this morning, urging that railway laborers' wages should be incroasod, and also asking that ballast raon should be paid during wet weathor. Hon. W. W. Johnston promised to make inquiries of public bodies as to the rato of wages paid for non-pauper labor, and, if Government were justified in doing bo, railway laborers would have their wages rnisod to at least 6s. 6d. per day. He also promised that the question of paying bullaat mou during wot weather Bhould bo takon into serious consideration. j At an inquest on tho body of Goorgo Champion, who was killed by tho up- j setting of a dray over a preoipico on tho Ngahauranga line, a verdict was roturnod of accidental death, but a ridor was addod that certain portions of the lino should be fenced. Information has boon rooeivod that tho stoamer Westport is on shoro in Horsoshoe Bay, C miles from Akaroa Heads. No lives aro lost ; and tho captain thinks Bhe can be got off with assistance. CHRISTCHUKCH, This Day. At the Oxford inquest on tho recent rmirdor and suicide, one of the witnesses \ said that a sudden change had been remarked in Greenfield's conduct during tho past few days, which nono of his mates could explain. The verdict given was that of insanity on Greenfield's part. Nothing else new beyond the facts already reported was elicited in evidenoe. The prisoner Longmore alias Elms alias Emodale, on remand for burglary, made his escape this morning through a window in the room in which he was confined, in waiting for the opening of the court. He has not yet been recaptured.

DUNEDIN, This Day. At t!ie adjourned meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, amongst the subjects that came up were a proposed Agricultural College for Otago, a Central Hailway, and a Commission of Harbor Board. A resolution was earned affirming the desirability of an agricultural college being established. With regard to the Otago central line, resolutions were carried, " That in the opinion of the ! Chamber, the line should be prosecuted vigorously, and that if a loan were raised, a sufficient sum should be allocated to | complete the line to Lake Hawea, but if no loan were raised, then to complete it to Taieri Lake." With regard to the Harbor Board, a long discussion took place, and by 15 to 14, it was decided that reconstruction was necessary, and that a committee be appointed to confer with the Harbor Board on the subject. The District Executive Committee of 1.0. G.T. have forwarded the following resolutions to the Dunedin members of the House of Representatives : — (1) That as the whole community suffer from the establishment of licensed houses, and as they are interested in the continuance of the liquor traffic, it is desirable that voting powers under the several clauses of the Licensing Act be extended, so that all persons on the electoral rolls may be allowed to vote both at the annual election of the licensing committee and triennial vote on local option. (2) That licenses having been freely granted in some small districts for the sake of ob- j taining license fees for local revenue, extra police protection being at the same time applied for, it is desirable that the police charges be localised as well as the liquor traffic AUCKLAND, This Day. Bennett, the absconding debtor from Christchurch, was arrested on the arrival of the Botomahana. He was brought up at tho Police Court yesterday afternoon, and remanded: to Christchurch. He had assumed a false name on the voyage, and bad erased the name of Bennett from his boxes. WANGANUI, This Day. In an article on the Rangitikei bridge, the Herald says that repeated warnings had boon given to the authorities of the dangerous condHion of the bridge, and something very liko what has occurred was foretold. It strongly urges inquiry, and states it was only by accident that there was not a disaetor of the eamo nature as the Tay bridge accident