INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9485, 24 July 1902, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, this day. A Maori named Htmi Omukite, ill Waingoro, filled a lead pipe with gunpowder and applied a light to the pipe. The pipe rebounded aJid struck his loghead, .killing him instantly. HAWERA. this day. While hunting with the Egmont-Wan-ganui Hunt Club hounds yesterday, W. G. White, manager of the Bank of NewZealand, came down after his horse hacf negotiated a jump. He" sustained somewhat serious injury, one arm being badly smashed at the "elbow. i WELLINGTON, his day. Mr Heiron's cabinetmaker'si workshop was gutted by fire at midnight. The insurances are £200 on the machinery and stock in the SoutH British and £200 on the building in the Manchester. The local honorary secretary's return of the Veterans Home Fund announces that the subscriptions to date amount to £679 13s lid. The Governor has now fixed August 6th as the datr for the Coronation ball. An op?n reception of the citizens of Wellington is to be held on the 9th, and a party tc the sailors in port at a later dat-i His Excellency visits Napier on Moml'iy, I'alinerston on Tuesday, New Plynu.iU'i (in Wednesday, and leaves for A>.i;!dund on Friday. DUNEDIN, this day. ' Tlie Quern's statue is: being executed by W. Hampton, and will cost £2250. The Hon. Richard Oliver says it will be one of the finest representations of Queen Victoria in. any part of the Empire. John L:iffey was fined £3 and costs 21s for failing to stamp a receipt for the sum of £30 6s Bd. (Special to Herald.) WELLINGTON, this day. Mi1 S. J. Jago, formerly postmaster at Napier and now chief postmaster at Wellington, has asked to be relieved of office on March 31 next. Ml- Calders, chief postmaster at Nekon. retires on a pension immediately, and will be replaced by Mr S. P. Stevens, now at. the Thames.