INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6210, 20 March 1895, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

<BV TELEGRAPH.) (per press association.) WELLINGTON. March 19. Roderick M'Kenzie, who escaped from Point Halswcll, was sentenced to sis months' imprisonment. The police are satisfied that they have secured some of the burglars in the recent banl of vagrants, though the evidence was insufficient to prosecute on the major charge. At the annual meeting of the Institute of Surveyors the report stated that 37 aames had been struck of the roll for nonpayment of subscriptions, leaving 226. fee Hon. G. F. Richardson was ejected President, It was urged that the effort to obtain incorporation should be continned, and also to obtain the appointment of a board of examiners in order to make the qualification similar in all the colonies and bring about reciprocity certificates. Arrangements for working the Mokibinui Company's mine by the Knights of Labor have practically been completed. The property is to be leased for two years, and the Company is to receive a royalty of Is on each ton of coal brought out. Mr Cad man leaves to-morrow on a tour of the South Island on railway and mining business. Mr Thomas Salt, Chairman of the Midland Railway Company, Sir Brace Barnside, arbitrator on behalf of the Company, Messrs H. D. Bell, and George Hutchison, M.H.R., counsel engaged in the case, were passengers by the Tainui, which left for Lyttelton this afternoon. Mr Northcote, S.M. at Auckland, has been appointed by the Government to inquire into the action of the Auckland Fire Brigade at the Avondale Asylum fire, and into matters connected with the fire generally. March 20. Mr Freybeig continues to urge the development of the timber trade combined with the replanting of trees, both indigenous and others, likely to be profitable. Amongst the latter he recommends 30 sorts of eucalyptus—all extra tropical —especially marginata and diversicolor, acacias, and wattles. He alludes to the value of wood-pulp, on which England alone spends eight millions per annum for paper making, and thinks that mixed with our own gum and pulp from flax dressers It would give great tenacity. DUNEDIN. March 19. At the annual meeting of Kempthorne, Prosaer, and Co.'s New Zealand Drug Company, the report recommending a dividend of 74 per cent, was adopted. Mr B. SievwrigHt, in moving its adoption, said bad debts were heavy for the year, and were partly accounted for by a desire to bring to a head unsatisfactory accounts, chiefly in Wellington. The prospects of the coming year are considered fairly good. Since the formation of the Company over LIOO.OOO had been paid in dividends. In reply to a question the chairman said sufficient linseed had been grown during the year to meet requirements. There was an improvement in the quality, and the crops were as heavy as, if not heavier than, the crops in India. Growers were at present satisfied with the results. Mr B. Hallenstein and Dr Ogston were re-elected directors, and the retiring auditors were reappointed. The Benevolent Trustees held an inquiry to-day to give Mrs Howie an opportunity of bringing forward further evidence than wa3 given in the Police Court in the charge of improper conduct against Inspector Flavell. Mrs Howie only tendered one witness, who stated that the Inspector never dared insult her. The Trustees, having heard the evidence produced by the Inspector, were unanimously of ODinion that the charges against Inspector Flavell of improper behavior to Mrs Howie and other women have entirely broken down, and are satisfied the Inspector is quite blameless in the whole matter.

Mr Justice Williams to-day gave his decision in the appeal case in which George Alves had been convicted by Mr Rawson. S.M., Invercargill, on an information charging him with obtaining L 8 by false pretences. His Honor said that the only evidence of false representation In writing was that appellant gave a cheque drawn by himself on a bank at which he had no account, and which cheque he knew would not be paid when presented ; that was not false representation in writing, but an order for payment of money. What might have happened had the appellant been charged with false verbal misrepresentation, it was unnecessary to determine. The appeal must be allowed and the conviction quashed. Appellant ought to have been committed for trial on the original information. CHRISTCHtTRCH. March 19. Application has been lodged in the Supreme Court for a mandamus to compel the Registrar-General to put A. B. Worthington on the list of officiating ministers under the Marriage Act. It will come before Mr Justice Denniston at the next sittings in banco. AUCKLAND. March 19. Prince Francis Joseph, of Battenburg, arrived from Rotocua, and made a call at Government House to-day, accompanied by Colonel F. Townshend, late of the 2nd Lifeguards. The distinguished vistors are stopping at the Northern Club. The Mayor and Town Clerk paid a visit to the Prince at the Northern Club. At a meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, no reference was made to the private inquiry going on at the hospital by the House Committee for the last fortnight. It is not known when the report will be submitted. A large steamer for the Steam Goods Ferry between Auckland and North Shore is proposed to be built at a cost of L6OOO. Sir A. Hastwell, quarter-master of the Tasmania, has been presented with a handsome silver medal as a memento dt the plucky w»y he rescued the girl Hilda Stewart, who fell off the Tasmania on the 3rd inst. The medal was presented by Mr Stewart. The captain of the Orlando has written to the Chairman of the Auckland Harbor Board, forwarding information respecting entries of men and boys into her Majesty's service on the Australasian station. They can be accepted by any officers in com mand, subject to the approval of the Commander-in-Chie f. TIMARU. March 19. A statement was made at the Hospital Board to-day that a patient treated for a wounded le* had it injured while working in the gaol gang at Lyttelton a few days before his discharge on the 9th inst, and the wound was not attended to by the gaol doctor, who made light of it. On discharge the man came to Timaru (his own district) and the doctor at once sent him to the hospital. The Government -will be asked to pay his hospital expenses. NELSON. March 19. James Breen, a prisoner serving a short sentence, and also awaiting trial at the Supreme Court sittings commencing tomorrow, who escaped from gaol at 11 yesterday morning, was re-captured at Brightwater to-night. The police guarded every outlet from the district, and the man, who bad kept in hiding daring the day, was pvidentlyproceeding along the toad towards the West Coast after dark

whan he was arrested by a plain clothes cottitablc. GREYMOUTH. March 19. Herbert Wilfred Lawson, alias Clapham, alias Howard, alias Cowie, who has been personating throughout the district for the last fortnight as an officer of the Education Department sent down specially to examine school records, was charged at the S.M. Court to day with vagrancy and imposing upon Mr Russell, hotelkeeper, Marsden, and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment on two charges, with hard labor, in the Hokitika gaol. The police showed that he had already received about six different sentences of four months to a year for personation. forgery, and petty larceny. He is a tailor by trade, and is of very good address, apparently educated and well brought up. He imposed on many respectable persons.