INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3687, 27 July 1886, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Atrczuirs, Jnly 20. Two firemen belonging to the Mararoa were fined for smuggling tobacco ashore. At the inaugural meeting m the Auckland Atbensum Room to-night. Professor Posmett delivered an inaugural address. Thomas Chambers has been committed for forgery. Miss Margaret Ryan, who attempted •uicide at St. Joseph's Convent, Sorry Hills, will recover. She is a domestic servant labouring under mania. Among the through passengers by the Mararoa were the Hon. Mr Baring, of Messrs Baring B-os., bankers, and Professor Chancy, the spiritualist. The Mararoa is to be fitted with a new propeller at Sydney, the present one being too small She made the run m seven hours under contract time. Intelligence from "amoa is that the opposition to Malietoa's Government still continues notwithstanding theproelamation of the consuls. Mr James Bell King still has a large following, and maintains his government some mil's below Mnlinua, though a considerable number of his former followers have returned to their homes and submitted to Malietoa. Wbeukotov, July 26. The southern portion of the San Francisco mail leaves by the Waihora at 3 o'clock. It will, therefore, arrive m Timaru by the Bxpnis to-morrow.

CHRIBTOHWRCH, July 26. Mr Robinson, of Messrs McKeone and Bobinson, contractors for the Brnnnerton section of the Midland Railway, leaves for the West Coast to-morrow. A gallant rescue from drowning was made this afternoon. A boy three years old, named I'awson, fall into the Avon near Colombo street, and drifted into deep water. A lad named Fraser plunged m and brought him ashore with some trouble, unoonscious but alive. It is stated that » Chrutchurch man who went to Kimberley diggings has transmitted to his family here as an instalment the sum of £400. . . 'I he Young Men's Christian Association here has ttruck out into new lines since the appointment of Mr Smeaton as secretary. It is intended to have classes for Bible study. English literature, Latin, French, shorthand, chemistry, book-keeping, etc. A literary association, chess club, rambling club, and cricket club, are also to be established. Dtobdik, July 26. The inquest into the cause of the death of the boy Smith, at Lawrence, last week, resulted m a verdict of death from natural causes. There was s large attendance at the funeral of Mr John Hyde Harris, which, as decease* had been Provincial Grand Master, was a masonic one. Thirty-five of the unemployed ere to be given work on the Otago Central works.