INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7655, 13 June 1896, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, To-day. Recently the Sydney police sent a warning to the New Zealand police that a certain advertisement in the New Zealand papers • inviting applications from shearers, with £1 .; deposic, was' a bogua one, and further com-' municationa show that the postal authorities in Sydney, at the request of the police there, stopped the delivery of letters addressed to the Western Graziers' Pastoral Finance Company (Limited), and returned them to the senders with tbe money enclosed. Since the exposure of the firm as a bogus ono over forty letters have been returned to New ■ Zealand, applications having been sent from all parts of the colony. . In the action against Mr Crabb, the temperance lecturer, the jury returned a three-tourths verdict for the defendant, with costs according to scale. In accordance with a suggestion in a letter from MrT. Branton, of Blenheim, theTradea Council passed a resolution urging Government to send an expert to Europe and America to push the sale of flax ; also, to/ appoint an expert to grade flax before shipment. The revenue returns for March- quarter •": are gazetted. The receipts from ordinary- ." revenue were £1,261,096, territorial£ll2,433, !. other sources (including £109,308 transfer from conversion account) £142,773, making a grand total of £1,516,303, against £1,288,501 for the same quarter of last year. Customs produced £461,273 against £435,315, stamps' £212,319 against £165,706, railways £393,349 against £373,494. The expenditure waa : - Balance at the beginning of the quarter £279,002, permanentappropriations£l69,9lß, annual appropriations £741,223, transfer to public works fund £90,000 other itema £20,601, leaving a balance of £215,558- . At a meeting of the committee of the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association, it was resolved to adopt the one judge system for the comjng show, and allot) two prizes of £20 each for a freezing sheep clasß, to conßistof ten freezing shorn wethers. They are to come from the North and South Islands respectively, and after being judged » . here will be frozen and sent Home and / judged in England, a prize of £5 be to given to the winning pen of frozen Bheep. , A nautical enquiry into the circumstances . ■ ~ oonnected with the striking of the Union- ■ S.S. Company's Ohau near The Brothers > some days ago, was held this morning. The- -". officers of the vessel expressed their, opinion, , " that the vessel could not have struck a rook ' , or the bottom would have been torn out. „ The decision of the Court has been reserved-,;!-' until Monday. The small steamer Pioton has stranded on .'■'■'. the North Spit, Karamea, and is expected to • ; become a total wreck. The passengers, cargo, etc., were safely landed. The arrivals in the colony for May numbered 1060, and the departures 1578." ' DUNEDIN, To-iut. For setting fire to three stacks of oats .'.' Matthew Pindlay Patterson was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, Judge Williams "- observing that if it turned out that the man was weak-minded the clemency of- the Crown ''' I could be invoked. - ■ In the case of the Chinaman Too May "• Hoy, charged with improper intimacy with a child under the age of consent, the jury ■ returned a verdict of guilty with a recom- ',' mendation to clemency on the ground of the '-. ■ character of the, girl and f possible ignorance ■'- of the law. Judge Williams, -in passing a sentence of two years' bard labor remarked' that he had paid attention to the recom-' '." ' v mendation. Two separate juries returned '■'■i verdicts of not guilty on two charges against) V Ah Kum, the evidence of the girls being ■_■ ;* ; considered unreliable. ■ .- • . ■ •„■.£ AUCKLAND, To-day* -■'■ '^ T - Two constables, Dempster, of Coromandel, -tV^ and Sharp, of Auckland, were' fined £l arid/" .' costs for being drunk and disorderly in a, -■--" public street in Coromandel township at 9 \-"'"\ p.m. on Saturday last. They have also been - -rl dismissed from the foroe. ' - - • CHRISTOHURCH, To-day.- ''>' Peter Thomas M oCrath, residing at Sydenham, died suddenly. whilst lacing his boots. " '"■: i" James Duthie, clerk to to the Kowai Road /-'■»''■ Board, was thrown out of a trap and died in '"' S a few hours. ' " • -■;"■ TIMARU, To-day. .:' The steamer Herald touched Patiti Point ■ ./ reef early this morning, but sustained no damage. . . ; ' . - WAIPAWA, To-day. ; ; A lad named William Dureen was thrown ' '..'." from a horse whilst crossing a bridge and / was killed. The horse slipped and threw , ' '■ the lad against the bridge, and bis body was „' found in the river. '