INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5436, 28 March 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

« [Pkr Prrss Assocr.\TroN T — Copyric;ut] DUNEDTN, To-iuy. At the City Court Henry White was fined £5 and costs for betting on a totulisatorodds at Forbury last week. WELLINGTON, Today. The Education Board estimates the revenue for the year at £32,048 and expenditure £32,477. The police have served a criminal summons on Mrs Thorpe for procuring an abortion. The case will be heard on Friday. Tin's arises out of the recent inquest on a married woman who died at Newton in which an open verdict was returned. AUCKLAND. To-day At the native meeting at Orakei 000 we represent. Speeches were delivered by several chiefs, condemning the policy of the Government, and eventually the Treaty of Waitangi was unanimously agreed to. Owing to the absence of the Native Minister ami Attorney-General questions concerning land matters were not dealt with. Agricultural statistics for the counties of Waipa and Waikato show that the area of land under wheat has increased by one-half upon that of last year. In the case of oats the acreage has nearly doubled, and there is also an increase in land sown in potatoes and turnips and in the number of orchards. Returns from Raglan County show similar improvements. A Hamilton settler shipped 24 cases of apples to Sydney and Melbourne markets on Monday last as an experiment. The Wesleyan Mission Station at Raglan was completely destroyed by fire last night.