INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9306, 20 November 1901, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. In the Supreme Court, Donald McLean was sentenced to seven years' hard labor for an unnatural offenue, The seven-years-old son of J. W. Brady, a settler at Papamoa, between ■Tauranga and Tepuke, whilst climbing a haystack, put his foot on a hay knife sticking in the stack. The knife fell with the boy to the ground. The blade entered the abdomen, arid made a terrible gash, extending right up to his chest, cutting into both liver and lungs. Death took place early on Sunday. • The Public Works Department refuses to carry liquor on the section under their control from Poro-o-tarao tunnel southwards. Large consignments of spirits and beer for Ongamahe are now lying at Poro-o-tarao station, where the working railway's control ends. The North Island Main Trunk Railway League Commissioners wire stating that strong rumors are afloat thfft a large . number of men are to be discharged from the works. HAWERA, this day. The ballot for sections in the Takaora estate takes place to-morrow. Applications- are being received to-day, and: are expected to oe numerous. WELLINGTON, this day. New cases have been filed with the Conciliation Board by the" Enginedrivers' Union and Grooms' and Conductors' Union for the settlement of their terms of employment. The Government have declined to. either vary the conditions under which the Grey-mouth-Point Elizabeth Coal and Railway Company holds its leases or to issue fresh leases. The Minister of Justice expresses himself as entirely satisfied at the result of the experiment of using prison labor for planting trees in the Rotorua district. He will next month inspect the work done, and then decide whetiier more prisoners should be employed in the same way in other parts of the colony. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Robert Thomas Leathern, solicitor, has beeu suspended by Judge Denniston from practice for six months on a, charge, that he sent a demand to a woman for the return of a bicycle on a Magistrate's Court form, leading the woman to believe it was a Court order. DUNEDIN, this day. Passengers are coming forward freely for the Waikare's Sounds excursion, The booking at present is heavy, and everything points to the excursion eclipsing past affairs of tho kind.

A reoent visitor to Queenstown informs the Clutha Leader thai/ he there saw a clotli of gold rose tree of wonderful dimensions. The trunk immediately above the* ground measured 57 inches in circumference. The branches, which were all propped up with poles about 6ft high, spread 18ft on each side of the trunk, and had a circumference of 108ft. The tree was not then in bloom, but our informant was told that at the usual season it annually had an immense number of blooms of the richest hue.