INTERPPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6891, 11 June 1892, Page 3

INTERPPROVINCIAL.

[By Telegraph. — Press Association.] WELLINGTON. Last nioht. The City Licensing Committee, to-dsvy gr anted all renewals except in two in stances, which have been adjourned for a fortnight owing to slight informalities. At the last annual meeting 12 o'clock licenses were granted to the Albert, Empire, and Royal Oak hotels, but this year the Committee decided not to grant any extension from 11 o'clock. The Melrose Licensing Committee to-day granted renewals to only two licensed houses in the district. The steam tug Duco. mentioned in the cables as having gone ashore at Bally ferris Point, was lately built on the Clyde to the order of Mr J. H. Williams, to be used in Wellington Harbor. Mr Williams received advice that she went ashore on the 2nd of June, but he has since been apprised that she was floated off atnd towed to Glasgow, where she arrived on the Bth. The citizens' ball to Lord Glasgow will take place on the 29th inst. The case against Hon. J. B. Whyte and Baggett for unlawfully using land scrip has been adjourned to the 27th. The case against Baggett for embezzlement commenced yesterday afternoon, but only formal evidence was taken. In the Supreme Court Leonard Langtry was acquitted on a second charge of horsestealing at Foxtoo. The hearing of the two charges has occupied fully four days. At theVluquest on the boy Barnett, killed on the tram line on Tuesday, the evidence was somewhat contradictory, some witnesses stating the tram was going at a good pace and others at a slow one and that the brakes were on before the wheels touched the boy. The medical evidence showed severe internal injuries had been inflicted but the wheel had not gone completely over the body. The driver of the tram said that he slowed down on meeting the crowd, and when he saw the boy called out to him and stopped the car as soon as he could. A verdict of accidental death was returned. The incfuest lasted nearly five hours. To-day. The petty burglaries which have been numerous lately, the police discovered were committed by a gang of children who had established themselves in an old stable, and had laid in a stock of provisions, an Aurora stove, and a supply of sensational literature. Three of them, Hedges, Murphy, and Johnston, eiorht, ten, and thirteen respecti"ely, were sent to the industrial school this morning. The boys appeared to be quite beyond the control of their parents. In the Divorce Court, in the c;ise of Jeynes v. Jeynes and Gough v. Gough, husbands' petitions, decrees nisi were granted. Finnimore v. Finnimore was a wife's petition on the ground of desertion, and also succeeded. AUCKLAND, To-day. The Orange Institution has resolved to convoy thanks to Sir George Grey for the stand taken in refusing to pledge himself to move a resolution in the House expressing sympathy with Home Rule.