INTERPROVINCIAL

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 20902, 20 May 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(Per Press Association.' New Plymouth, May 19,

Mr McGuire, .»f Hawera, addressed a largely attended meeting last niUit, when lie advocated handiug orer to the Government the New- Plymouth harbour. He contended that the Colony was in duty bound to take it over, owing to Parliament having inflicted an injustice oi the settlers as well as the bond] holders, by changing the tenure of land after it had been pledged for harbour purposes to the British creditors. Ha showed that the harbour was the only place of refuge for vesse’s on the West Coast seaboard of fifteen hundred miles and that it would therefore benefit tha Colony to complete it. He showed that the assets in the fourth of the land revenue, with land at disposal, would ba a profit to the Colony in the transaction* A Committee was appointed to agitata the proposal.

ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER, (Per Press Association.) New Plymouth, May 19. The steamer Gairloch mot with an accident last evening when crossing the Waitara bar en route for the Manukau, She broke her port shaft, which carried away her propeller. It was quite dark outside, so they fired lockets. Assistance went to her and she was brought into the Waitara river. CHARGE OF FORGERY. (Per Press Association). Invercargill, May 19. At the Police Court to-day, James Healy Wilson, alias A. Wyndham, alias C. Thornton, was charged with forgery. He is wanted on several similar charges at Dunedin and Christchurch. He was arrested by Detective Ede ou the evening train for Cl'utou. He admitted ho was the man wanted in those places, and was remanded. THE TARIFF. (Per Press Association). DulNEoin, May 19. The Dunedin fiuit importers havo telegraphed to ibe Treisurer, protesting agaiust the duty on fruit, which means an adfli ional sixpenct per case, They allege that the lax will be beavi'y felt where the frnit arrives damaged. The Protec'ion League approve generally of the duties on articles gtown or mmufticlured in the co'ony, but suggest that several articles require classification and di£feren‘ial va'ues. Tbo Le .gue regard it as impolitic to impose duties on m'icles that cannot be mado or pioducod in the colonv.

CASES OF DROWNING. (Per Press Association), Oamarct, May 19] A man named Thomas vYav put out in a fishing boat on Tuesday, and, failing to make the harbor at night, has not sine* been heard of. It is feared the boat capsize i and the man was drowned. One of the oars was picked up on the b-aoh, Ciißfs’JCHUi'Cii, May 19. This morning the body of John Macdonald, a patient in the Hospital, was found in the river. It is «uppo3od he committed suicide, as be wa* seen half an hour before by s-n attendant, and he then seemed all light. SUCCESSFUL APPEALS. ( p er Press Ass iciaiion), Timaru, May 19. ' At ttie District Court to-day James and John Matthews appealed against the decision of two Justices who gave judgment against the appellants on 11th March for having in their p issession an unlicensed s‘ ill for the purpose of distilling spit its. His Honor held iliat the mere possession of a still was a violation of the law, but quashed the conric ion b cause in a. proceeding befo‘o Magistrates by a ata'utory officer (Collector of Customs) to remove a penalty for a breach of the Dis'illa'ion Act the Magistrates have no power to award costs to the Crown.

In a larceny appeal case, Voloin r. Reed, decile l oy Mr Bi-awick. H.M., afc Teniuka, His Hon ir also allowed tho tipped, as in ’he evidence Jc 1 there was nothing 'o show tnut 'a r ceny had b-en committed.

UREA'HI OF LICENCING ACT. (Per Press As«ocihion). Drrsurix, May 19. At the City Court, the icensee of tho Ayrdti-e Hotel at Kensington was charged with a breu-h of the Licencing Act. It appeared that h ; s wife served Pqunr t» a man «horn she knew to be a near resident, though ho dec'arod ho had travelled over three miles tliat day. The man neither drunk nor paid for the beer through the podee entering. He was fined 5s for fahely rep'esen ing. and tho landlord was fined MO, the Magi tra’e holding it was the duly of t' o licensee to make reasonsb'e enquiries,