INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6893, 14 June 1892, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[By Telegraph.— Press Association.] WELLINGTON, To-day. The banquet to Sir Patrick Buckley is fixed for the 23rd, the day Parliament opens. The charge of murder aeainst Smith is not finished. At six o'clock last evening the jury were locked up for the night. No new evidence was adduced. John Black and Daniel Tennent have been committed to trial for breaking and entering Lion foundry and stealing £7 odd. One of the prisoners formerly worked in the foundry, and accused were discovered by the town watchman working at the safe, but the latter took no action as the men said that they were completing a job for the proprietor. The charge of murder against Charles Smith is not likely to conclude to-day AUCKLAND, To-day. There are 185 names on the list of special settlement associations now forming to take up the Ohura block-. Additional applications are coming in daily. Mr Seddon addressed a large meeting at Te Aroha. He spoke nearly two hours, and was repeatedly applauded. He said that settlement had doubled during the last year under the present Government, snd was more than during the two previous years of the late Government. He quoted figures to prove the superiority of the Land Tax over the Property Tax, and the wisdom of compelling large landholders either tocultivate or subdivide. The exodus from the colony had ceased. During the last years of the late Government eight thousand adults of the wage earning claos left, representing a loss to the colony of one million sterling. He denied that land nationalization had ever even been discussed by the Government, and said that the charge that freeholds would not be granted was false. He explained the co-operative system of labor on public works, which earned an average of eight shillings per day, and asked if the rankest Tory would grudge the working man a shilling an hour. A vote of thank 3 and confidence was carried with cheers. DUNEDIN, Last nujht. At the Baptist Chuich yesterday the Rev. Mr North preached a powerful sermon against gambling. Referring to the totalisator, he said it was a shame that the national sanction was given to such a national scourge as betting, and the shame was intensified by an instrument of betting being made a source of national revenue. He advocated that legislation in favor of the totalisator should be annulled, and that a law should be enacted prohibiting newspapers from publishing betting quotations. PALMERSTON NORTH, To-day. The insurances on the buildings destroyed by fire are : Montague, L4OO in the Standard on the stock ; the building L3OO in the New Zealand ; Sorrall and Sons, building, L 350 in the Norwich Union, stock, L3OO in the National, LIOO in the London and Lancashire on the tools and furniture ; Colville and Derrington, L2OO in the Union on the stock, L4OO on the building (belonging to Mr Hughes) in the Liverpool, London, and Globe ; Salmon, stock L2OO in the Commercial Union ; the damage through the removal LIOO ; Cook, no insurance, loss L 25 through removal ; Olsen, no insurance, loss LSO ; Wickett and Co., LIOOO (in the Palatine L3OO. National L2OO, Commercial Union L 300) on the stock, valued at L 2500. It is estimated that the damage through removal is LISOO. WANGANUI, To-day. A crowded meeting of ratepayers has carried resolutions to the effect that certain members of the Licensing Committee were guilty of a breach of pledge to the electors, in their deciding to reduce the number of licensed houses in the borough below the proportion of one to 350 of the population.