INTERPROVINCIAL

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1973, 2 October 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(Per Press Association.)

Auckland, Sept. 30. No farther news has been received respecting the wreckage found near Port Macquarrie. There is reason to believo that the name on the board found may possibly be that of the schooner Sovercigu of Auckland, which was dismasted in a gale off the Australian coast some week? ago. ! Miss Greening, a well-dressed woman was arrested while trying to purchase laudanum at a chemist’s shop. She had threatened to poison herself. Justus the Tarawera was leaving the wharf to-day, a h ranter, who had booked for Melbourne, was arrested for attempting to abscond from hia creditors. Oct. 1. A tender has been accepted for the construction of a reservoir on Mount Eden to hold half a million gallons, It will be placed half way up the hill, and will give a supply to the high lyinfe suburbs. The contraot time is eighteen months. Judge Ward transacted Sqpretpe Opart business in Chambers this njorniog, but there was no formal reception by the bar. At the criminal sessions which open on Monday next there are 43 charset with 20 prisoners set down for hearing. The most serious charge is the North Shore shooting case. ‘ There are no fewer than four cases of arson, » t Wellington, Sept. 30. The Postal Department had in contemplation : the estab.iihment of a parcels post in tlijj Colpnf, fmt the niatter wifi be deferred until the ne’tf year at least, 1 and possibly till the expiration ot the present financial yearOct, I.

At the Supreme Court, in the case Wellington Meat Company v.Owoers and Master of the Coptic, for damage to a cargo of frozen meat, a nousuit was entered on the ground that the plaintiff did not make the claim at H >me in accordance with the bill of lading

Government has received a cablegram frbfn the AcMr*lity suggesting that the GovernmentJJ’shduld next seMioa legislate in the direction : ’of ‘ regulating the sale of intoxicating drinks to seamen belonging to Her Majesty war ships while stationed in New Zealand waters. The spggestiqa is made in consequence of a large number of desertions which are atributed to drunken neat. The question will be considered by the Cabinet next week, and it !s understood that the Government are favorable to taking aetion in the direction desired. -

Dunedin, Sept 30Six runs were offered for sale today by the Government auctioneer, bat only on* W*Ss sold.

Two tradesmen who decided to contest the' right’of tlie'police tb brder the re moral gfgood* hanging in a dqdrwey and gjightly abutijog on the stfeet wpre fined §» and goats softer jnapectiqo of tlif R ( M. The Harbor Board haveadqptefi a byelaw providing for obarging only one pilotage on steamers calling more than once on each voyage.

THE SCAB OUrBREAK. Wellington, Sept 30. The omhrgak of scab ip the Wairarapa district is supposed at present' to be odsf*

fined to some sheep which have been moiling wild in a patch of bush on Govern. msnt land. The p'ace is very r mote and f«r from any telegraph station which account! for no news having yet been received from Inspector Bailey. TI.MARU POISONING CASE. Christchurch, Oct. 1. The charge of attempted murder against Thomas Hall and G. Houston, of Timaru, will be taken on Monday week at the oriininal si tings of the Supreme Court.