INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2905, 15 January 1884, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PBSBB ASBOOIATIOff TBL36BIH.] Atjomakd, Jtm. 1-k The miners at the Kawakawit coal mine who ; lately struck, have agreed to resurr ■work on tho terms offered by the manage A dozen liave left for Westport. Hillaby's slaughter-house has been burnc down. It was insured m the Wow Zealan oflico for £300. : A quantity of dead mea ■ hiler), 4c., -were destroyed j also, 40 livo shee of the value of i 6400, and which irere vi inireried. It is a case of suspected it cctadiarism. While Mrs Sharp, of Cambridge, wt bathing m tie Pokaewhenua Creek with he daughter, aged four, the latter was swej. aflflgr and drowned. The Epsom House seminary, occupied b. Ckmeral Stoddart, was burned dowa. Thi building was insured for £200 m the Soutl Slttuh,and m the National for £309. Th furniture, on which there was a risk m th South British for £700, was partly saved Tlie origin of tbe fire is unknown. ■■' GIfIBOBSB, Jan. 14. A four roomed house and its contents a Ptlotah were burned down last nighi; during thij absence of tan family. The insurance wai £200 m the Hamburg-Magdeburg Office. Ai inquiry will be held. Nkw PiYMonE, Jan. 14. Dv Bedwood liid the foundation fitoue ol th« Convent jestierday. There ires a large concourse of persons present. In his addresf ' he spoke strongly against the Government system of education, and said that it iras not corsutent with What the English called fail play. He said the building would be a credit to liha Catholics, :rad he hoped the children of the place would attend the school. The Biiihop gave a subscription of £30,, and a larje amount waa also placed on the stone. Wisoaxui, Jan. 14.. - Odd Trick has been scratched for all engagements at the Wanganui Autumn meeting. Parero is ucratched for the Cup and Hij)pona for the Flying and District riicei. '; WsietsoxoS, Jaiu 14. sJhe Botoruß, with the Son Frt>n<is<« mail, ' srcntodlfrom Mannkau and Taranaki it 6.3 C -tail evening. 'Fhe Botomahaiia trft foi Lyrtelton at 7.30 p.m. with the Southern poition. l?he Supreme Court has been occupied the whole day iv hearing the chargo oi. ! arson preferred' againsti a young man named Edward Mullen. The case for ths Crc<wn baa not vet concluded, and at 6 o'clock the jury weiß locked up for the night. Th« police have beeu unable to ascertain the whereabcut« of one of the principal witnesses for the .prosecution. s?he early colonists celebration of their aniirersary day promises to Tjc c. great auaeess. Sir WEliam Fihherbcrt wOl preside. " Mother Goose " pantomime . finiihed a mo* successful season of nineteen nights on Saturday. Tho company learo for Christchttrth to-morrow morning. Donald Dinnie appears at the Tradssmen's Atliletic Sports next month. -Siie weather i* very unsettled. A large (juimtdtjr of rain fell yesterday. A man named Dennis Byan is missing. He vraii only discharged from the Lunatic Asylum recently, and ib is feared he may have destroyed himself. dJhe Working Men's Club for the hidf-year shown a credit balance of £38. The balance of iwoets over liabilities is £567. '. The ship Hunmui sailed for London this evening. M the Magistrate's Court, Carterton, a charge of rape preferred against a. yqung man naned F. Wdliaiis was dismissed, idedical examination proved the crime hi.d not been coonmtted. . Mie steamer Kangaroo, with 160 tons of marble from CssWell Sound arrived this after- • nocn. Vhe Wew Zealand Sliipping Company hare received a cable. message utatiiig that their new steamer Aorangi put Into Hobart en Saturday short, of coal. She was to leave agiih yesterday, and is cxp«ctod here on Thursday. : - 3TEiso:f. Jan. 14. A six-roomed house near ihe railway station, owned and occupied by Mr August, recosd mate of the steamer Ejmnedy, was ba'»sd down on Sunday afteznoen. Aba Carbrt, Mr August's mother-in-law, -was m the: building, conilncd to bed, one! waa saved wilfc difficulty. The insurances are : — National £100, and £150 on ths bouse and fuimturc m tho Norwich Union oflice. Nothing waa saved,, as owing to a strong wind the fire spread rapidly. 'He Cbllingwqod correspondiint of the * Ciloitist reports a violent thunderstorm m thiit district carlr on the rcornini; of the 9th. While Mr G. Kialop was at lreaki.'aiit his house was struck by lightning, which split cms corner from top to bottom, fearing away tho -weatherboards and lining, and passing ' siting the ground plates and the ground for 40ft, and then tixploding and throwing up a quantity- of earth; Mr Hulop was thrown to tho ground, and his wife and tw,j children m thi. cowshed, cl»se by, if ere nlao thrown doirn. None of them were seridasly injured. Chwstchobcii, Jan. 14. Lewis' , Stewart.', a fisherman of Aliaroa, is niismg. He it supposed to have been drormed by the upsetting of bis Iroat m crossrof the Akarott harbor on Bnturdjiy. , ' Dm(E»ra, Jan. 14. The Primitive Methodist Confercm» liave mad- the following settlement of stations for -tfce coming yeai-:— New Plymouth, J. Guy and J. Long • Wellington, A. J. Smith, P. N. HunterandW.a. Dean; Auckhmd, W. S. TB tf^in»t| i J..BHoth-Boyds layc^ea-ffO, D. X Itton and Bit: Laycock ; . TEpiaJrn, 'Joseph S ijte- lEaniei,; C. E. Barley j JJipeiilile, P. cl j JB^ f-Wr*j£\i Bnn«wsnV C;l ,. Ward and J. | njJ^eQfi Mjihawattt, J.Clofler.} Oamaru, T f idfo jj.Gertjaine and Wat iate, ! vacant. TIM r«JwnnwnJHiidn.pf the Cbnitnltte* which M iS jMbihjraeli m July itut on tieinattei oi qp<3^r3«&m-s~aie respective Miethodist bxiies m New Zealand was considereil. The anHtitution suggested for the unitid body Urii^of »Very Gberal character, and specially ■lapted to secure the full recogiritioii of' the hStjria Church government, waet accepted bj tius Conference. ' ' On Friday s'apKcatkm wae -iiadt- to th« -Colonial Secretary for free railway piisseß foi tlw crew of the Sarah W. Hunt to Lyttelton, but no reply, beiing received, »3veral Mndlj dispoeed gentlemen took their caw m hanc snd obtained for them free passages on obi t* the Union Company's boats, irad ulso pro ndod them with pocket money. To-day th< ioltewing telegram was reeeivo-1 from Wei lington:— " lam instructed to state, iv repli to your telegram to the Hon. 3tr Dick, thai 'il^ nlrtw B ** lle csm »ot ; »nthdri«< i'totner* expenno m respect of i;he seamen o \ho Swab W Hunt, who being America, intuens, should apply to the United State jaJnsuL (Signal) W. Sbbb." ; ; : ;The annual . mocting of the OUigo Bibl iJooiety wm held to-night. The report showei jihat affairs wefe iv a satisfactory state. Th ■Grovornbr wae'. m the chair, ami m cm addre! .itated tho Society, during its 20 years 1 oi latenca; had been instrumental m dlstributih i>ver 30,000 copies of the Scriptures. A( >irw6«s wero ddirercd bj the Eer. Air Barko iigenfe of tbe British and Foreign Bib! iSodotysmd filers. The Bey, W. 'Bojialdsc wae eWed Presldcafc. * ..'"",