INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8089, 6 January 1903, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

By Telegraph. Pee Pbess Association. WE-LLINTON. .' January 6.

The petitions against the election of Mr Fowlds for Grey Lynn and Mr Lawry for Parnell will be heard before Chief Justice Stout and Justice Conolly at Auckland on February 2nd. Tlie Rimutaka left Plymouth yesterday for Wellington and Lyttelton. The old Trentham Hotel was destroyed by fire on Sunday night. A new building ktd just been completed near by, and removal was about to take place. Both were

owned bv" Mr F. M'Govern, Mr T. J. Walsh-being; the licensee. The insurances on the furniture and stock are £2OOO, but that on the building is not known. -The cause of the fire is unknown.

The gold export of the colony for the twelve months ended December totalled 508,0430z5, valued at '£1,951,430, an ■ increase of 52,4820zs and £197,647 in the value. The value of the gold exported last year was the highest for a period of 29 years. '..--. ■—...

DTINEDIN. January 6. The Caversham Post Office was broken into at three o'clock this morning. The safe was carried half a mile away and broken into nieces with an axe on the tram line. It is understood that £3B were obtained. AUOELAM). - : - - January 5. The adjourned police cases in which W. Richardson, the Prohibition lecturer,, was concerned, was heard at the 'Police Court to-day, before (Mr Haselden, S.M. In the first case Richardson was charged with conducting a public meeting in Victoria street so as to impede passers-bye. After a lengthy bearing, during which defendant cross-examined witnesses with a view to show that the police had a bias against him, the case was dismissed. Richardson charged Police Inspector Cullen with using insulting language towards him. This case was also dismissed, Insx»ctor Cullen denying that he used the language attributed to him.

The principal winning payments-in connection with the Auckland summer meeting were: Mr G. G. Stead, £2285; Mr S. Bradley, £1050; Messrs Nathan, £680; Mrs J. Lennard, £510; Mr F. Watson, £495; Mr E. Cecil, £325; Mr H. Friedlander, £265; Mr E. D. O'Rorke. £250; Mr H. Hyland, £250; Mr J. Marshall, £240; Mr T. Mackay, £210; Mr L. Marshall, £195; Mr N. E. Tuck, £170; Mr J. Clark, £165.; Mr W. Walters, £160; Sir G. Clifford, £135; Mr Lynch, £IOO ; Mr T. T. Williams, £IOO.

WESTPORT. January 6. Captain Lobb, for eighteen years in the Union Company, has resigned. He will proceed Home this month and bring out the Westport Coal Company's new steamer. Canopus, due in June next.