INTERPROVINCIAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8417, 17 January 1899, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

• [Per Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON. To-day. The weather is extremely disappointing for agriculturalists. Heavy rain fell on Sunday night, and yesterday morning it cleared up with a hot sun. but it is now raining steadily again. If it becomes general over tho province it must have a depressing effect on the harvest yield. AUCKLAND, To-daf. At an open-air meeting, Mr W. Crowther, M.H.R., presiding, a resolution , was carried to the effect that the Govern- -~\£ muni, be thanked for their services in the ' matter of prevention of an Austrian influx, and that they be asked to further use their influence to keop the Austrians out of New Zealand. Six hundred claims for old age pensions have be i lodged, and the Stipendiary Magistrate commences to hear them in batches of twenty. The Mayor, Mr Goldie, has left for south for the double purpose of attending the Primitive Methodist Church Conference and seeing how municipal matters are managed in the leading centres of the colony. A. W. Bell, the long-distance runner, is ■, not likely to accompany the athletic team V to Dunedin. 7 A prospector at work at T.uipo for some time past believes ho has made a discovery of great importance, namely, that alluvial gold deposits exist in that'locality. The Natives have vetoed any further explorations at present. NAPIER, To-day. J Michael Quinn, a confectioner, was fined 5a and costs, for selling drink known as Kola Bittera, which on analysis was found to contain alcohol,