INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2032, 10 December 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

o Per Press Association, Auckland, Dec. 9. This morning the bank of the new Ponsonby reservoir partly collapsed, the bank havjng cracked jn the centre for 150 feet. The bank seems to have slipped off the solid in the contre and followed the stone wall. Wellington, Dec. 9. The Resident Magistrate to-day intimated to counsel that he mnsb not be expected to al'ow professional expenses in cases arising from quarrels between people of ques ionable character. Tijiaro, Dec. 7. W. id. Craig, Agent for the Equitable Life Assarance was committed for trial this morning on a.charge offcriminal libel.

The plait.nff *s Murray Aston, a rival Insurance Agent fur the Mutml Life Assurance Associaiim of Aust a aii% THE DUNEDIN FIRE. Donedis, Dec, 9. At the enquiry into th.* fire at the Railway Goo Is Shed the jury returned a Verdict to the effect that there was no evidence as to how the fire originated. Soma boys stated thrt they saw two men cross the street from the fire, but this was the only evidence which ia any way pointed to a suspicion of ineen >iari*m.’, THE CAIN MYSTERY. Timaku, Dec. 9. Hall, the prisoner charged with tho murder of Captain Cain, arrived from Lyttelton to-day in custody of Warder O’Brien. Mrs Newtou, Cain’s daughter, also arrived a’- Timaru to-day and will jive evidenco at the adjourned hearing to-morrow morning.