INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5709, 4 March 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Pres* Association.] : ,', WELhmOTON, -To uir. The Premier is about ; to tft^e' anpjher ' spell from business. He will probably ■ go South and remain away from Wellington till the end of next month. . ° . The rain has cleared off again. Not nearly enough has fallen to do permanent good. . '„-., /^ T i 1 ™ I ! linis Iter1 ter of Mines > Mr Elliott . (N. b. W . ), and Mr Gordon Jef b t yesterday afternoon to attend a mining . conference • at Dunedin. p ./ 1 * 7,, ■•*>■* , r . Arri Y e £ , : Barque Parse©, from 1 Monte *■-■'.■ Video (13th December). OnistFeoruajy : a saloon passenger named Albert Rer^j^fe . died of consumption. ' . . WESTPORT, To-day, • A single man named John Harris, a carpenter, committed suicide last eveniW shooting himself through the 1 head. A rent collector called on Harris, who went into the bedroom, lay down on the- bed, ' and shot himself, the bullet entering ; his mouth and penetrating the bram; -' He • " had been drinking. Deceased, washed CHRISTCHUROH, To-day. A difficulty has arisen between Meiwrs Whitcombe and Tombs aud the Typographical, Society in consequence-' 1 of a ' circular as to the scale of wages', issued by the Association. The firm have decided to make the establishment -a non-union one, and have given notice to the employees to either leave the Onion or resign, their situations. -r* 1 -- > R. M. Conuell, solicitor, has <*me bankrupt. His unsecured " liabilities are L 412, and secured L 18,863. ti is estimated the amount of securities, chiefly land, are L 9670. The principal creditoris the Colonial Bank,. L6OQO/ • , " DUNEDIN, To-day. At a largely attended meeting : of the Early Closing Association members,' resolutions were carried to secure the Saturday following Good Friday as ( a permaI nent holiday, thus giving continuous closing time from Thursday night-till the?" r following Tuesday morning. : REEFTON, To-day. At the District Court yesterday the fresh trial of James Allen for amalgam ■ I robbery was begun. Counsel for prisoae* • applied for a change of yenue. -The. pe&~ secufcion opposed. . Judge Broad said there was no disguising the fact that » strong feeling existed- looajty. likely, to prejudice a fair trial* -He thought it bast in the interests of justice to send the trial to the Supreme Courtat Hokitifca. The • oase was accordingly ' remanded to Hokitika oa the 17th of March. Thirty wltn.ess.es were bound over. „ » i . . . A young man named Alfred Breigan was \ drowned in the Inangaliua tiv&t yesteiy < * day while bathing. . .;«;,>/ ■ The weather is still hot. ; Wateifor mining purposes is ba.dty wanted. ....