INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3771, 2 November 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegkaph.) Auckland, Nov. 1. It 13 stated that a warrant ia out for Albert Walker, one of the trio referred to by Mr Justico Ward, oil a charge of forgery. Ho is believed to have left the colony. The gas supply investigation committee have appointed four Bub-committees, chemical, financial, mechanical, and complaint inquiry, to investigate cases of abnormal gas bills. The Egyptian fair and bazaar in connection with the TrinityjChurch, Devonport, realised £528. Entries for tho Agricultural and Pastoral Association's bliow are- not bo numerous as last year. Tho foundation atone of the new Roman Catholic Church at Ponsonby was laid on Sundny afternoon by Bishop Luck. The Church of the Sacred Heart, as it is called, will accommodate 400 people, and will be a temporary woodeu building. Subscriptions on the ground' amounted to £230. The examination of Wesleyan probationer students commenced.to-day,'inpre-paration for the annual district meeting of the Wesleyan Church, which opens here on Friday morning next. New Plymouth, Nov. 1. Tho damage by the fira yesterday in tho mining house at tho Harbour works is estimated at not moro than £200. Palmer-ton North, Nov. 1. A serious accident happened to a child named Doreen, daughter of a local resident on Saturday. Tlio child was playing by the tire in the absence of its parents, when her dress caught fire by the flames, which spread rapidly and were only extinguished by some passera by, when she had been fearfully burned about the legs and back. 1 1 is thought sh© will die of the effects. The child is at present in an unconsciouß Btate. Wellington, Nov. 1. Government intend to ask the Governor to proclaim the Marriage Act of 18S0 applicable to the Native race. At present clause 2 specially excludes Maoris from the provisions of tho Act. The s.s. Alameda with tho English mails of 7th October, left San Francisco for Auckland on 24th October, one day lato. The Mariposa with tho colonial mails of 12th October arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on 30th October, two days in advance of timetable date. Nelson, Nov. 1. Colonel Whitmoro was entertained at dinner by tho Volunteers of the district on Saturday night. To-night, accompanied by Colonel Bailey and Major Mebbe, ho leaves for the West Coast, thence to Christchurch. Chkistuiiukcu, Nov. 1. About SO boys, aged between 8 and 10, attended a free breakfast given on Sunday morning as tho initiatory step towards the establishment of a boys' brigade. They wero for the most part nowapapcr'runners. Tho movement in their favour [has been started by Mr Smcaton, Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. A lad named Stopheu Hubbard, between fifteen and sixteen years of ago, wa3 committed for trial to-day on a charge of perjury. Ho had previously stated that he had sworn falsely under the inducement of another young man named Ellesmere Goodwin, who wanted to clear himself of responsibility in an afliliation case.