INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3619, 7 May 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

I . (By TEI/EGRAFII.) Auckland, May 6. ' Tlio field forco of Constabulary at Waikato ■ is to bo transferred to Auckland to undertake , duty at tho North Iloads batteries. , Through Boino misunderstanding no cooling chambers were built on tbo Rimutaka for tho fruit exhibit for tho Colonial Exhibition as ■ promised, but tho exhibits were placed among the ordinary cargo m the hold. Shippers are i indignant nftor tho trouble and expense they bare 'gone to, and feel certain tho exhibits will roach London ruined. 1 A wealthy farmer named Wra. Hirst ; Morton |waa fined £15 and costs, £I], or ono , month's imprisonmoDt for cruelly to animals. The cruelty consisted of buying pigs m tho market and instead of branding them scoring : them with pocket knives. The gashes m • their backs are seven and five inches respec- , tivoly. Tho Kimutaka left for London to-day woll freighted and crowded with passengers. She 1 takes a quantity of frozen meat. [ The Taupo went into dock to-day. The , damage i» comparatively trilling. Two plates on the port aide are bulged, but can be easily 1 repaired. It is not yet known whether tho ' company intend to have tho repairs mado hero or at Dunodin, but the veßsol is considered absolutely safe for eea going purposes m her present state. ! Warrants have beon issued for the apprehension of five men on a chargoof forciblo entry with 'violence into the residence of Jas. H. Dyer Nowlynn. Defendants c)aim to hove acted under legal advico. Nbw Plymouth, May 6. Judgment was given m the conspiracy caao to-day, when tho Resident Magistrate dismissed the information. Application was made to bavo the prosecutor bound oyor to prosecute undor tho Malicious Indictment Act, which was granted. This places tho caao virtually m the samo position as if the defendants had been committed, only they are not required to find sureties. Wellington, May 6. Government House has during His Excellency's absence, been completely renovated. The requisite carpoting was recently imported from Home at a coat of £700 Mr W. J. .Speight, who . formerly Bat m Parliament for the Thames district, has beon appointed manager of the Auckland branch of tho Government Insurance Association. ' Sergeant-Major McQovern, who took such a prominent part m arresting Winiata, tho murder, iv the Waikato district somo years ago, has been appointed inspector m charge of the Kawhia district. With regard to tho Now Gninoa quostion it is understood that tho New Zealand Government are willing that Queensland should undertake the administration of the affairs of that island. The Defeneo Dopartmont has secured tho services of a man thoroughly conversant with tho laying of submarine) mines, and m a short time ho will entor on his duties as instructor to tho torpedo corps m that special department. Tho appointeo was until recontly m tho service of one of tho Australian Governments. Ha was one of tho first-class instructors of submarine engineering at Chatham. Blenheim, May 6. At the Supremo Court to-day, Thos. O'Kourko was acquitted on a chargo of horse stealing. The trial of Patrick O'Sullivan, for stabbing John O'Sullivan (both parties being publicans) is now proceeding. DoifEDiN, May C. ' Tho ahip Lyttelton, ■with nearly 1000 tons of cargo, drawing 18ft forward, and 17ft 9in aft, has beon brought up to tho city wharves. The man who committed suicide at Musselburgh has been identified as Henry Adair, a single man and an old resident of Clinton. Mr Carow, R.M , at the Police Court to-day said, referring to tho case m which ho had , sentenced a prisoner to two months' imprisonment for breaking a leg, he had overlooked tho gonoral provision of tho " Police Offences 1 Act" under which prisoner might have boon ! charged. As the prisoner had been practically ; sentenced to seven mouths' imprisonment he ! thought that ho was sufficiently punished. At the conference of representatives of 1 school committees it was resolved to recom- ' mend Parliament to abolish . cumulative ! voting. A number of alterations m the mar chinory portion of tho Act wore recom- , mended. The country gold escort brought to town ' gold to the value of £25,000. ■ ' iNTBBOABaiLL, May 6. A petition, signed by 137 persons engaged

m scaling, has been forwarded to the Minister of lands, praying that no tenders for the lease of tho sealing grounds bo accepted till Parliament has had an opportunity of considering tho matter.