INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3721, 4 September 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 3. John Thomas Clark, watchmaker, has been committed on a charge of arson. Applications for selections of lands under the village special settlement system of perpetual lease and by deferred payment closed to-day. ICO applications were received for lenses, and fix for deferred payment sections, 'i he largest number of applications as for the Punatitere block there being m some instances as many as five persons after the same sections. A resolution was carried by a majority of two m the Council that owing to tho financial position of the city, it is not desirable to further maintain the Lock hospital out of tba city funds. The draft on general account ia now £40,000. Wanganui, Sept. 3. Iho Hon. J. Balhince arrived hero last night, and stays here for a few days. The trains north and south were unable to get through this morning owing to slips at Urunswick and Fordell. Attempts at through traffic will be made again to-night. Dunedin, Sept. 3. The factory liands m Dunedin intend erect-, ing a tablet m recognition of Mr Bradshaw'a efforts on their bchulf. Dunedin, Sept. 3. No reply has been received from Hudson, who holds the Champion Wrestling Belt, to tho challenge from Dunn, and the Caledonian Socieiy have given him an extra week's grace. This Dunn, it mar be Btated, is not the Bama who wrestled at SVanganui, but is the well-' known wiestler of that name. Unless Hudson accepts the challengo m time, he forfeits the belt, which, if ho can hold till December, bee mes his property. A charge of indecent assault on a girl 12 years of age by a youth of 17, named Daniel AlcLoughlin, vtas called on to-day, but adjourned. Notwithstanding the largo number of men • on the relief vorks, eevornl more waited on the major to day to ask for employment. Tho MinUter of Public Workß will endeavour to have more sent to work m the country.