INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 4254, 2 June 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

» (By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND, Svav 1. A meeting of fruit growers waa held to-day to consider the Codlin Moth Bill just pasaed by the House, and it wrs decided to telegraph to Messrs Swanson and Digrmn asking them to use endeavours to prevent the adoption of the Bill m the Legislative Council, until the fruit growers had had an opportunity of considering its provisions at a public meeting to be called for that purpose. A ten-roomed house at Mount Boakill, the property of Mr W. Keys, was burned to-day. The building was insured for £400, and the furniture for £200 m the Imperial office. The tender o£ Mr D. Gouk has been accepted for the floating of the steamer Chelmßford, stranded near Opotiki. Mr S. J. Ambury has been elected without opposition Mayor of Newton. A man named Warren fell m a fit m Victoria street to-night, and diod while being conveyed to the hospital. WELLINGTON, Jcne 1. John Pomeroy alias Collins, arrested for forgery, is just out of gaol, having served a sentence m Dunedin for a similar offence. William Smith Fletcher, grocer's assistant, was ar/ested on a warrant at the Bluff this morning, for desertion of a wife and child m Wellington. The City Council have rejected a motion to reduce the salaries of officials. The tender of the T. Gutcheon Electric Lighting Company, for lighting the city nmounU to £1750 per annum for the first five years, and tho tenderers offer to run for a further period o£ five years at £1600 per annum, should the council not purchase the plant at the end of the first five yeara. The contract provides for 480 Swan-Ediaon incandescent lamps, each of 20 actual candlepower. A charge of sheep stealing preferred against Bichard Smith, a well-known settler at Pahatamu, was partly heard to-day and further adjourned until Monday. OTAKI, Junk 1. Tho subscribers to the New Zealand Penny Dinner Fund have sent to England £25 foi the poor school children m London. CHEISTOHOBOfI, Junk 1. Tho Henleys, charged with shooting V, Sinclair, were romanded for a wcok as Sinclaii is still unable to leave his bed. DUNEDIN, June 1. At the annual meeting of the City Licensing Committee, all applications for renewal ■were granted except m ono caso — Universal Hotel— which it was reported was badlj conducted. The committee had made enquirj of their own accord, and wore satisfied thai tho complaints wero justified. Tho case wai adjourned for four weeks, but it waa inti' mated that a license would not bo granted tc Mrs Diamond, the present holder. Those convicted of Sunday; trading were Jseverelj warnod, and tho action of tho police was ap> proved. INVERCARGILL, Junk 1. The representative of a publio com pan j doing business hero is said to have loft towr under circumstances not yet explained. H( loft a note m his office, from the tenor ol which it appears that something bad occurred which had unsettled him. Ho is a einglf man and it is rumoured that ho has had i rebuff from a young woman m another parl of tho colony. Tho police havo boon m formed of tbo affair, but are reticent regard ing it.