INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3604, 19 April 1886, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Auckland, April 17. : The Kaikaiha Cheese Factory at Waikato has beeu burned. The building and machinery were insured m the National for £700. It is not known whether the. cheese, valued at £600, waa insured. By a fire m Kelson street the stock of Miss Fyfer, a dressmaker, was destroyed. It was insured for £150 m tho Colonial, and tho building for £200 m the South British. Wm. Bobert Doyle ha 3 been poisoned by taking carbolic acid as a sleeping draught. He had been drinking. | Bobert Featherstone, a gum digger, has been committed on a charge of incendiarism at Tokateka. At a meeting of the Bootmakers Operatives Union a committee was appointed to meet a similar one from employers to discuss matters. Promises of relief havo been received from the Seamen's and other Unions. The Trades and Labor Council send a circular to the Unions m the colony for help. Bobert Fitzray Bolton, a well known commission agent, appeared before the Police Court to-day on a charge of inducing Hudson Williamson, Crown Prosecutor, to endorse a promissory note for £900' with intent to defraud. Tho Hinemoa, with the Hon. Mr Ballance, left to-night for Tauranga, after ho had an interview with the Governor. • Dunbdin, April 18. It is understood that the Waimea Plains Railway Company have refused the offer of the Government to purchase tho line, on the ground that the offer would result ia Iqbb to the shareholders. A military funeral took place to-day, the volunteers attending the funeral of Mr Mortman, of the City Guards, who died from rapture of the heart, received m the tug-of-war at the recent sports. The Parliamentary Union was opened last evening bj tho Hon. George McLean, the Governor (Sir William Fox) being present.