INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2032, 28 March 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Piju Pkess Association.) Auckland. March 20. Mr Zambra died in tho hospital last night. After a great discussion at tho Waitangi meeting the natives decided to unveil the monument, which was done. An old identity, named Alex. Black, is dead. Ho was aged GB, and was one of the few survivors of the witnesses of the celebration of the Treaty of Waitangi. A lottery being held to disposo of a yacht, the police prosecuted the promoter, Frank Whiting, who was fined L3 and costs, or a month's imprisonment. Guthrio and Larnach's large sawmill at Parahara, Manukau Heads, has been totally destroyed by fire. The machinery was capable of cutting 200,000 feet per week. The details are not yet received. Later. Tho firo at Guthrio and Larnach's mill broke out at two yesterday morning. It is supposed to be purely accidental, and to have been caused by a spark from the chimney. About 150,000 feet of sawn timuor stacked near was also destroyed. 'Clio mill was insured for LllOO in the South British. Tho timber was uninsured. Tho estimated loss is L2OOO or L3UOO in excess of the insurance A boat capsized at Hokianga river continuing fivo persons. They wero rescued by natives after being half an hour in the water. Mrs McLennan was ono of the occupants of the boat, and was only throe weeks recovered from her confinement, and had an infant in her arms to which aho clung until rescued. She i3 ill from the shock, but it is hoped not seriously. The American whaler James, Caplain Gifford, has gone ashore on the rocks at Awanni, having mistaken that port for Mongnnui. The crew are discharging the oil, and hope to get the ship off. Wellington, March 20. Mrs J. Clarke, a steerage passenger per Rotorusi, bound via San Francisco for England with her husband and family, fell down tho hatchway shortly after leaving Lyttolton. On arrival hero she wan taken to tho Hospital, suffering from a broken arm aud suffusion of blood on tho brain. She has remained unconscious since the accident, and is now sinking fast, and not likely to recover. .

Tho total property jtax return is now ilightly over L205,000. Carey's Baby Pinafore Company is an snormous success. March 27. The Hawca leaves for Mannkau with ihe outward San Francisco mails at sii j'clock this evening. For some time past there has been a suspicion that somo person has been lampering with the stamping of deeds, »nd the police have been endeavoring to sheet the charge home. On Saturday ifternoon William Michael Downes, a :lerk in the office of Messrs Brandon and Sons, barristers and solicitors, waa arrested in suspicion of being the party impliMted. He will be charged at the Magistrate's Court to-morrow morning (1) that le did on the 15th day of May, 1879, fraudulently fix upon a certain material, ;o wit, an application to bring certain lauds under the provisions of the Land Irausfer Act, a stamp of the amount of LI, which had been removed from some at her material, contrary to section 17 of the Stamp Act ; and (2) that on or about November, 1879, he did fraudulently remove from an application in writing to bring certain land under the Land Transfer Act, stamps of the amount of Ll3, with intent and to make use of such stamps, contrary to section 17 of the Stamp Act. The accused has been admitted to bail, himself in L2OO, and two Buroties of LIOO each, on each charge. Dunedin-, March 2G. Reynolds' Juvenile Pinafore Company is an immense success here. Their houses are crowded, and hundreds turned away from the lower portions. Invekcargill, March 26. At an inquest on the body of the infant found yesterday, the jury returned a verdict that there was no evidence to show that it was born alive. Kathleen McCarthy, who admitted being the mother, was arrested and remanded on a charge of concealment of birth.