INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1009, 10 March 1909, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) WKI/UNGTOX. Ma nil 10. The Public Works Department to-day started work making the foundations for the new Post Office, a work which includes the construction 'of a basement and involves the expenditure of £BOOO. The balance of the work is to be done by private contract. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Wellington at 4,10 this morning. AUCKLAND. March 10. Carl Francis Walker, clerk in the oilier of the Crown Prosecutor, was charged ill the Police Court 10-day with 23 forgeries, totalling £416, beginning in .July, 1906. and ending last mouth. " A statement by accused admitted all charges, but with the object of obtaining bail be pleaded not gmllyTIMARL'. March 10. At the District Court to-day an action was heard before Judge llaseldcn and a special jury, in which Ruth licubow, daughter of a small farmer at Tcmuka, claimed from Holr'H .ToluP Kdgar, a young farmer, £SOO damages for breach of promise of marriage. The. couple became engaged in 1904'; but defendant broke oh Che engagement in October last only to renew it a fortnight later, lie linally refused to mari'V plaintitf on November 22nd. 1904. The principal reason given for the breach was that the girl was too quiet. The jury awarded £2OO damages.