INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6892, 13 June 1892, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

« [By Telegraph. — Press Association.] WELLINGTON. To-day. In the case of Jones v. Jones and Esplinett, husband's petition, a divorce was granted with L2O damages against corespondent. The Supreme Court was occupied this morning with the Eketahuna murder case. Smith and Harrison have already been tried twice, the jury each time disagreeing. On thin occusion the prisoners are being tried separately. Smith, against whom the evidence is supposed to be the strong* est, is now in the dock The hearing is expected to last two days. No more women are to be appointed to telephone exchanges until it is seen whether the experiment is successful. It is not intended to place women in any other branches of the public service. Ex officials in the Post and Telegraph Department cannot bo re-employed now except as juniors with minimum rates of pay or as temporary hands AUCKLAND, To-day. The Ministers Association has carried resolutions asking employers to prohibit betting on their premises and asking the press to urge its influence to condemn the spirit of gambling, disapproving of the practice of raffles and art uuions at bazaars held for church and charitable purposes, petitioning the House of Representatives to abolish the totalisator, recommending that circulars promoting betting and gambling should not be permitted to pass through the post office, and that it be made criminal for bookmakers or anybody else to bet with youths under the age of 16. Arrived : Sleamer Richmond from Tahiti and Rarotonga. She brought up the remainder of the shipwrecked crew of the Auckland brigantine Rymo from Flint Inland, five in all. The French fleet were concentrating at Tahiti when the Richmond left there. The second session of the first Parliament of Hervey Group Federation was to open at Raratonga this month. The Richmond brings news from Tahiti which identifies two foreigners who were lately arrested by the Spanish authorities at the Caroline Islands for piracy and murder with two men who left Tahiti last November for a cruise in a schooner called the Nuiroahiti, which has never been heard of since, till she turned up at Caroline* Islands with the captain and supercargo murdered, and it is suspected the original crew were poisoned. The schooner is believed to be the same vessel. The men have been sent to Manila for trial.