INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5435, 27 March 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Association-— Copyright.] WELL NUTON, To pay. It is understood the extension of the Wairarapa railway toEketahuna will be formally opened on the Sth of April. (Irant, one of the iunn injured in the Ouki rocket accident, died this morning. This is the third man who has succumbed. PALMERSTON NORTFT, To-day. Yesterday afternoon an old woman nair>ed Cavanagh was run over by a dray and killed instantaneously. She was riding on the dray with her husband and fell off, the wheel passing over her iiead completely crushing the skull. AUCJKi AND, To-day. The charge of obtaining ni-ney under false pretences against Madden, solicitor, and .Tagger, on the strength of a, bogus cablegram purporting to state that the latter had become heir to an estate of 12,000 or 14,000 acres of land in England, was dismissed against Madden, who was shown to have acted merely as Jagger's solicitor. The latter was committed for trial. Mr E. P. W. Miles, head of the firm of Miles Bros., of London, Miles & Co., Christchurch, and Miles and Aroher, Timaru, died suddenly of syncope at the residence of Mr Hamner, of Te Archa, to-day. A repreaentativa of a Melbourne company has arrived here to construct a switoh-lnn-k railway. When this is dona he proceeds south to erect similar structures in largo towns. The large nati.e meeting commenced today at Orakei. The two first days will be devoted chiefly to feasting. The real business commences about Friday, when Mr Mitchelson and Sir F. Whitaker will be present.