INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4727, 23 July 1890, Page 4

INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS

(ST TELEGRAPH.) WELLI2fGTO>\ July 22. Mr Edwards took his s:nt on tr.j I&c»l Supreme Ciort h«:r.c!i f.r the firs', time this morctatr. Sergeant-JI j>r I>1! diad suddenly yesterday afternoon. On hU ream his cfSca hea:s«ed toh'Sffitf:! thv. be felt lu hl» asaat hcattb, but h* l»id d.wn on o COOCb »afi r.abacqa-'n'.ty "cat to bed, where io a few ruinates he expired wi hoot ottering » word. F>.- '■"*-> p»*' IS months bf bid been «t>ff:*fo2 fri-m dUb»tes. Dieted for ten y«vs fn India in tho 2,d b.»:t»!inrt the K;H* Brigade, and >u through 'be Indbu mo'toy in 1857, and the Aifcantce war in 1873 74- Ho w » s afterward* stationed in rarioa* par* of Ireland, »"d sixteen years •ro hi *a» sent out to N-j* ZsatanJ by Ibe Homo Government s« drill ins'.rnctnr, which position ho fulfilled up to the time of hi* death. The GaT»rametit h.»ve decided to cxt«ca* the ra»"»y line through th* city to Te Art> and will introduce a B.U this tension for the purpose. The New Zealand Times publishes detail* of thts no» defence scheme. Practically ther* wili be no increase of the Permanent Force, with the exception of a few torpado men. With regard to the volunteer*, about 3000 will be wanted, ood if enough votauteora arj not procurable, power wili be asked t<> draft a certain camber from the firtt-ctftjs mi!iti>. E>ch mm will be able tu etrn fmui L 5 to LG par year. Country corps are no: to be abolished, bat thoaj which like miy bucome rifl* dab* by attending futir parades per year. Tho to:al extra coa: la estimated *t L 20.000.

DUNEDIN. Ju!y 22. Adam Elliot and J. R. Waters were committed for trial t..-d»y nn a charge of conspiring to bave Wo. Djnneliy apprehended and charged wtth having an unlicensed still. The charge preferred sgatnat Donnelly was withdrawn. Tba annual conference of tKo Induitrial Protection League of New Zealand was opened this evening. The report of too executive iru principally a rtcipittilatiau of the question* which had been tinker coosiderutioo, and tbe business transacted at last conference. It stated that the endeavor to briniz »bout a ucinn between tha Trades Unions an i ibe Leagoe bad not been sncojssf 01. The repott was adopted, and the conference adjoarned. BLENHEIM. July 22. At auction to-day Mr Gnßrbs snbmltted freehold town properties uodrr mortgage to the Irisnraccj Depar:ni»n'. Competition wan spirited np to L 20,000, et which figures the pr\>per;ies weio purchased by the mortgagees. Thnso ar» the properties referred to by Mr Jo'm Kw, M.H.R., In a question In the huos.-.