INTERPROVINCIAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6784, 22 September 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

[{it TkOS JI4VPII. -P.'tS^ A-HOJI ATION.] WELLINGTON, To-day. Up to yesterday afternoon 300 women have been enrolled. , The Governor met with an enthusiastic reception on his visit Lo Masterton. It has been decided to erect by public subscription a new wing to the Library, to be called the Levin wing, as a memorial to the late Mr Luviu. The pilot service has not been paying, and the owner of the tugs Duco and Mana offers to take it over. A conference of local bodies is being held to decide, whether October 25th (Demonstration Day) shall be observed as a public holiday. Another two hundred women have forwarded claims to be enrolled for the city. An inquest is proceeding at Petone iuto the circumstances connected with a number of fires recently discovered in the Marine Retreat Hotel there. AUCKLAND, To-day. Sydney Smith, a lad «f nineteen, was committed to trial for breaking and entering the premises of Mr Foster, grocer, at Parnell, on (Sunday morning last. The race horses Pegasus, St. Hippo, Stanmoor, Miss Letty, Satyr, and. Forme were shipped to Napier by the Tarawera to fulfil their engagements. About ten hundred women have been enrolled for the city already. i News from Fiji states that the sugar crop is expected to be enormous. Some 5000 sacks of raw material arrived here yesterday for treatment at the refinery. At a women's franchise meeting Sir Robert Stout said a rumor that he was going to contest the city was untrue. NAPIER, To-day. At the Supreme Court Thomas Smith pleaded guilty to bigamy, and was sentenced to two years. J. F. Bowes, lately an auctioneer at Hastings, charged under the Bankrux^tcy Act with making preferential payments and failing to ksep proper books, waa acquitted.