INTERPROVINCIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1762, 29 August 1885, Page 14

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, August 26. Marshal Booth addressed a crowded audience here. He states that a systeni prevails in the leading Colonial cities, though to a lesser, extent, similar to that which the Pall Mall Gazette has exposed in London. In due season

he will come to the front with disclosures, backed by evidence through the agency of the Prison Gate Brigades.

The Janet Nicoll, for the Islands, was fairly patronised with passengers and cargo. Among 'the former is the Mayor of Christchurch and the Bishop of Dunedin.

Wellington, August 26. An Egyptian mummy, said to be 2000 years old, has been presented to the museum by Mr Carter, of Wairarapa. Mr Sydney Muiiy who was assaulted and tarred at the Lower Hurt, has instructed Mr Travel's, solicitor, to take proceedings against the offenders. From letters received here, it appears that the port to which the Coptic was bound when she left here under sealed orders was Coquimbo, a town at the mouth of a river of the same name on the coast of Chili. Alexander Stuart, charged with unlawfully .selling two railway return tickets, including steamer fare, from Ashburton to Wellington, was fined 10s and £10" 11s costs.

Invercargill, August 26. At the City Police Court this morning three youths about 16 years old, charged with throwing rotten eggs at a member of the Salvation Army and otherwise maltreating him, were each fined £2 or 10 days' imprisonment. They went' to gaol.