INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10859, 31 December 1906, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(P(^» Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, this day. w The HontG; Fowlds returned fromF .Waiotomo o.n. Saturday night, and Dr. Findlay arrived from Rotorua. Both leave for Wellington on Wednesday byv. the Wanganui river. • £ THAMES, this day. M Some boys-,pn the racecourse at Paraft,, •,wni on Sunday . afternoon, discovered theffe dead body ofia man, lying face downwards * on the riveribank. It turned out to be Henry Copley, . a tailor, Afho had been,, m business afc Thames for some years. It ; : . appears.to be a case of, suicide., as decpg§ed hadj keen despondentofXl^to^onc^-. Ifji^pokeri ?of suicijle^^mTwife. He £y? s< %ged abput An inquest is ? Dei «£ 2ijld3^--^ •■'■■' fcHpftio mmießt pn Costloy, th# evidence, V^^at^filpLWafrdue h drowning. No caiise was -assigned. 'A verdict of found drowned ;w#s";ret timed. : ' ' '

U. WAIHI, this day. . Thomas V6\fks, an elderly- man, was burned to dentil m a house destroyed "by tire last night.. He was looking after the house wliije his son-in-law was camping. . Deceased^was a member of Pitt's militia' J 40 years ago, and liad been 37' years rtpuA dent, at the- Thames. ' '

WAIROA, this dayl '>* John Mitchell, "junr., a half-caste, has'J been arrested 1 on a charge of arson, 'm! ; burning his four-roomedi nouse and con*' teiits, insured for £120 m the Standatol'ofh'ce. Accused luis confessed, and. entered a plea of mental derangement owing to & the death of his wife. ~ ./ "^*< ■■> WELLINGTON, this day. • - The ; s:s.' Sonoma; , with British mails of December 15, left 'Frisco on December 28th, it 6 p.m. "I CHRISTOHURCH, tlu> . d«y. Mr Oharles Clark, aged 85, head -of the well-kttown auctioneernig fiim of that name, 'died yesterday. He had been m Canterbiiry: since 1856, a short time as .a farmec, and then asm land agent, auc-. tioneer," etc. i During the last fire days a colony of gypsies Tiave been encamped on a* paddock" just outside the city.. They com-f prise,:T9 Mexican gypsies, three husbands, and 'their wives, and 13 children. They say they have been six months away from home,- and came here from Australia.. They will go back again /n.-six months.. Tlieyaeem to make a living by the women fortune telling. INVERCARGILL, this day. : The . Invercargill, Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, and Waitara pipe bands have entered for the Ne% Zealand Athletic Union championship pipe band contest, to Jbe held at the Exhibition. on January 24th and 26tb. '. ■ .

(Special to Herald.) ■■■>-..■ DUNEDIN, this day. The Premier reached Christchurch on Sunday,- and comes, on south by the first express to-day, m order to attend the Bluff regatta on January £. He returns iniinediutely to Wellington, as important .] Cabinet meetings begin on- Saturday, prior { tbjSir Joseph Ward- leaving for London. The "Defence Minister has sanctioned "'■ a portion of the Pelichet Bay rifle range .- being transferred to the Health. Department; as the site for an infectious diseases y! hospitaL _ • . '' v ; ;*[; : •Volunteer officers intend entertaining Colonel Robin, who" has been promoted to the Military Board, and Major Johnston, who returns to England shortly. "■! Mr. Kidston, Premier of. Queensland,.: cives a flat denial to the rumor in Queensjhnd political ckcles tliat his visit to Now „ Zealand is m connection with drafting a. policy for. the forthcoming general eleo i tions for Queensland. He- -says Queens- _| land has its own particular requirements, * hhd its legislation ha 6 necessarily to be based upon those requirements. He ask* itbat contradiction, be given the report 'that bis visit is m any way connected with the object imputed. •