INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 4603, 29 July 1889, Page 3

I NTERPRO VINCI A L.

♦ • (By TKLKuiurn.) AUCKLAND, Jolt 27. At tho adjourned meeting of colonial-born sympathisers with the cam? of Homo Rule for Ireland, a committee win appointed to draw up on address to th ■ Irish delegates. A settler, writiniifriim tho licrckino special settlement, denies that there i< any jtarvalion there, and says that the reports that the settlers are starving ore spread by people hero who do not want work. Tho Wnikato County Council have decided lo invite the other local bodies of the district to tend representative.* to a meeting which is to bo held to consider the question of railway freights. A demand is to be rondo for a reduction of 50 per cent on the freight for produce eer.t from the district, and that all manures be- brought by the railway free. At tho Polico Court'to day, Mr Giles, R.M., paid a tribute to tho memory of the. late Mr Justice Gillies, and sairl that by his death tho Bench had nuffercd a loss tint would not easily be fillod. Mr Hc-keth, the senior member of the Car preseut, endorsed His Worship"" remark?. NAPIKR, JfLY 27. The Poultry on.l Canary Association's show this year has been an unexampled success. There were exhibits from nearly «H parts of the crlon*. Among the outsiders the most prominent prize-taker was Mr E. J. Bannister, of Wellington. WAIPAWA, Jutr 27. Dickey's Hotel was burned down last nieht and a man named Henbow was burnt to death. An inquest will be held to-night. WESTPO3T, Jrty 27. The difficult v between th* Labour Union and Wilkie Drc-i Irat ranched n cri«i(. Tho union gave notice to the contractors this morning that unlpss non-union men are) discharged from the works they (the unionists) will leave the quarries on Jlonday. Further, they will not admit the non-unionists to membership at present.