INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 5406, 5 May 1892, Page 3

I NTERPRO V I NCI A L .

♦ (Bt Telegbaph. ) AUCKLAND, Mat 4. The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals bare reaolved to cooperate with the Ohrißtoburoh Hociety m getting ' «be lime for laying informations extended to thee months instead of one month. WELLINGTON, Mat 4. William Lane, charged with being illegally on the premises of the Panama Hotel for the purpose of committing a felony, aud who waß arrested at Palmerston North after escaping from oußtody hero, -was committed for trial, Mr Dugold McKellar, at present chief landing surveyor at Auckland, assnmes the tlnty of Colleotor at Ohristcburcb, and Mr Hill, one of the landing waiters m Wellington, is alao to be transferred to Obristchurch. Mr Sibbald, recently transferred from Auot land to Wellington, will shortly return tbere It is rumoured that Mr Beth Smitb, Obief Judge of the Native Land Court, is about to resign that office, owing to foiling eje-sigbt. Constance Spargo has been committed for •trial at Pabiatua for bigamy. The woman ■waßTnarried m Masterton some years ago, land it is alleged that subsequently she ■married a tailor m Wellington, and then lived m Blenheim, A coat containing papers bearing the name •61 Jobann Baldewin was found at Patone 'beach and it is feared that a foreigner of that •name is drowned. Further oeprdh is being ltnade. XiAT£B, ! JEhe coat found at Petone wharf has been id'-raSified aa tbat worn by a German named j o lj «n George Baldwein, aged 31, who arrived bew »boot fonr weeks ago from German * Kxa ust *»l' B > & Q d who was a fellow passenger ">f Deeming* m the Kaiser W»lb*l«n to Australia. • _ H « wa§ . m M ? roh f mont here, d ™ ha^g beea m a despondent mood it is fea Ted that be •»• committed snieide. The pol. :<!a * r « watching (ha beaoh. OAMABIT. May 4. A miper named »,''<*•"* J«nWi» «' killed at Livingstone to 'Ojy =y » "11 of •srth m a claim. He was a*"" 1 * «* r»« o £ age. DUSBDIIO May 4> The Hon. Mr Seddon came into town to-night from the Bruce district. He has received intelligence of the serious illness of a member of his family, and 1 unless reassuring news reaches him he will leave m the morning direct for Kumars.