INTERPROVINCIAL

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1970, 30 September 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

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Auckland, Sept. The Royal Commission to invest and claims of old soldiers an 1 v dm, sat to-day. 300 claims were pu in. The Great Bartier Island is again ing into notri ty. A constable was patched there to arrest a bushnian threatened to shoot another, who j leged to have said it was a pity (.■ had gone away so qu ckly, as he sh have had a mate. Wellington, Sept: The charges of larceny prof; asainst the Cook family ocenuied Magistrates Court, again to-day. Once! against the father for stealing probelonging to tho Government was misseb. Two of the male children rsspective’y 11 and 8 years were or to be sent to tho Burnham link. School until attaining tho age and were also ordered to be prie whipped. The remaining charge, a... Mr and Mrs Cook will be hear.] evening. The cases against the Cook t\ lasted till 11 pm. the father wm milled for trial on three charges o: ceiving and stealing ; the mo!her second daughter on two charges of ceiving and stealing. The Government have r 'Ceiv- l i r ber of specimen iusulatmi, men several of colonial m ike. Th ynj be sut'jecjed to » e gi 1 inspi c i>n I; a decision is come L \ Mr Andrews who lately o'ltiin; commission offered to colonial applL has applied to the Government to tain an exchange into an In lion r »]'- instead of one in Ireland. II is i tie: been referred to the Governor wh been asked to see how far eli' c s cir. giveo to the wishes of the applie urs. At four o'clock this afternoon C-ss Cheymol, wine merchant, recently judged a bankrupt, was arrested ontt informations for forging and isnuiue : tificates f r a deposit of goodsij Queen’s Bond. The first inform: charges him wi h alte.iug a oerdi-itq the depoeit of two cues of bran lv : second for forging a certificate fou: tain number of casks of port " ine hr:; third is with reference to 10asti brandy. Tlie alleged offences took pi iu .January and February of the pel year. He was brought up in Conn:! evening and remanded till WtdiieslJ bail \v is allowed : two sureties of J each, I At the RM. Court to-day, the J Meat Pres rving and Rofrigeratiujl were charged with having sold nl game after the expiration ot > v,u I from the .’losing of 'he seasmi. I the evidence it appeared that tie I question had been killed betntv lit- I of the season an 1 had been thioj»!,l freezing chamber, but the i> iic I tended that unless game was pruteal would open a wide door to po idling I the defence it was net deni d * Inf J had been soi l, hut it was nniutiinejl the Act was really intended to prj the destruction of game during the b;l ing season, and as the defendant com;* had obtained the gone lawfully then! entitled to dispose of it. After arail His Worship said that the fact tlu:l process of nature had b eu arrestell not appear to alter the character ;B thing sold, aud that it seemed loiiixß the sale of game cut of season, wi-B in a frozen itato or not wn-auiß under the Statute. A fine of is >u.ii was inflicted. f

ChrietciiUßUll, Sept, A solicitor named .John I’ a:-, is employ'd in the U gi troro t ■ Office. Wcllinston. was :i-rc-,tci : on a charge of approptiatiog to L u*e a promissory note for Id! > w’d : entrusted to him by A'hiu W chemist, of Wellington. Ho etatei the note, which was foun 1 on hims not due till October lffl.li, was gir. him for collection an 1 that ho hi I all he c’uld towards tint ohja*!. ail he was away from Wed iogtou torn day with the know] *dge > f U’liitfisiJ the Registrar-General. He w.sr n:! to appear at the Wellington K, M l on Saturday. Dunedin, Sep One hundred and forty-four«: were seized by the Custom- vest j The importers valued th en :,t f ; d the Customs, finding their value .1 seized the lot, and submitted tie', auction. THE SYDNEY STOCK CuNFIj ENCE. Wellington. S-j,tl The Stock Confcranei at Syh;| its meeting on the 271 h io>i. 'I I Chief i n.spector of Stock for N I Wales, was elected Ciiainoau, 4 I order of business mis settled, -.I subject to be dealt willi being 'he-l stock. New Suiilh Whiles, Tam.i I New Zealand, have e ich 1 hiv n. '-1 the conferencee. Queensland re.;l Australia two each and VicD rii 1 SCAB? IN THE WAIKAR.ffI Wellington, s.f I Mr Bayly Chief Inspector, li;d-’ I a visit of inspection to W'liaivaiin. i scab is supposed to have lirok'm out I Department believe I hat, il i< | outbreak, but that the diseasehal: ■ eradicated. | THE BARRIER MURHEIhI WRECK OF THE SOVKKKfoi THE SEAS. Auckland, S-pB The Supe. intend nit of Police B eoived a telegram s atiug that ib-'B Sovereign of ihe Seas, lias been near Port Micquarie, New Svi i. B Tlie wreckage foun t there on inst. includes a board wi ll the cutter pain'ed on it. It ■ membered that Hi - Sovereign of "■ was the cutter in which the 'if’j I rier murderers mule their i-saap- 1 B. last. Over a month ago a was s'ghted near Port Macquarie® wis subsequent!v reported tint 'Bp one of the mar •.•era ha 1 been t'BI Victoria. K

RUAPEHU AND TONO-iE QUIET. Al t KEANU. ' : - Intelligence has b< en p -t b Taupo to Cm tff ct that Tong riro are qu et. The seen from Mata-m ita yesterday of c’oU'ls mistaken for steam. good view of both mountm® ' tained. Th--y were thick'y snow. Tongariro was steaming more than usual, THE FIST PRESERVIN'* 1 ' DUSTPiY. FURTHER ENCOUUA'Uff Wi.LLi.ViToS -■ The Cu ninissi ni.-r of Tr I ■ ■- toms has given iristi uc.imn fu<" ; payments to be made on bonuses authorised by ' T Enojuragemenc Ac*, ls-j).’’ ",-i r‘ of not than one to.) in " i '- claims wi 1 have to be nu U v. dance with the regulations •' the New Zeaian i Gazette, of d'l- - last, ami are L > t.e *-D----the Collector of Customs a: from which u.e fish ia exports!