INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 9031, 24 December 1900, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

v-"' : -J. ."/ (Per Press Association.) ; , ■;'■ ! " v WELLINGTON, this day. *■"•-• Major Cradock, now with the New i -'.■ -'-.. Zealande"rs in South Africa, has been -•Z: promoted to be lieutenant-colonel. H* y In the Appeal Court in the Taupiri > ; '"y Coal Company case, Mr Bell, for the . - defendants, asked that the question of 'XT'.-' injunction should be referred to .the Court •'.;- .below. He had no doubt the Company -■• would appeal to the Privy Council, as •'■'-' the whole of the works of the Company were under the bed of the river. Mr Daziell, for plaintiff, said he had no '" objection to judgment being withheld until February Ist. This was agreed to. leave was given to appeal to the Privy Council. The Court adjourned until February Ist, when further judgment will be delivered. NAPIER, this day. "' At the innuejfc on James Stark, found . " dead at Mohaka on Saturday morning, the jury returned a verdict that deceased died from a gunshot wound, but whether '.' • accidental or not there is no evidence to '■ ■'•'. S ° W ' AUCKLAND, this day. Thtf railway station and Poi>t and Telegraph Office at Mercer was totally destroyed by fire yesterday morning. No particulars are available. Telegraph com-, ' munication is interrupted. At the Mercer fire all the post office

I materials and mails were saved except one telegraph instrument. The railway ! Department lost almost everything, the • safe and cash-box being saved. The re- | freshment-room keeper loses £300 in his I stock. There were no insurances. Ar- , I rangements have been made to open tern- ; I porary offices. I