INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6067, 28 September 1894, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(BY f BIJKUUfH.j AUCKLAND, Bepxembee 27, The secretary of the Prohibition League hot received the following from the Premier — •'Your recommendations re the Licensing Bill will receive due consideration. It is my intention if possible to get the Bill through this session. Tawhiao's funeral took place at noon at Taupiri to-day, and was an imposing ipeotaole. About 2000 followed. Tremendous volleys were fired at the grave. The Otaki band played the Dead Maroh splendidly. The natives are dispersing to their homes. The Board of Education have referred the question of charging rent on teaohers' teiidence to the board's legal advueri. PAHIATUA, Seftbhbeb 27. The body of Joseph Gadsby^ a settler at Tutaikaru, was found m the river at Stirling block. He had gone over after cattle, and - .oofc returning his man went m searoh and found bis dead body m the water. It is , fceliflf edfaii horse stumbled and fell with him id crossing tha river. ; " WELLTNGTOF, Beptembbb 27. > Captain Hdwin reports evidences of etrong northerly gales and rain m most parts of the country, between midnight of Sunday and Tuesday. At & meeting of the Cricket Association to-night a request from tho Canterbury Cricket Association, asking that a guarantee of £300 be given m connection with the visit of Stoddart's team of English orioketers to New Za«land wu declined, the meeting deciding to offer the whole profits arising from a matoh instead. OHBISTOHUBCH, Sbptemxeb 27. At the Ctaritable Aid Board yesterday the chairman referred to the statements published lately reflecting on the Board's manner of conducting its business. A question had been asked m Parliament reUtire to certain He supposed thkt no publio •dministrttive body oould expect its actiooß (o escape eriUeUm. Bumor was always busy. Sine source of such reports, however, was teldom reliable. From what had come under bis, observation, he oould say that many of the statements recently made ware inddeurate and misleading. Statistics of outdoor relief showed (feat m August 469 cbbcb, comprising 14V3 persons, had. been asiisted j m the correspond- ! ing month of 1898 there were .441 oases, comprising 1492 persons ; there was a steady increase m the demands on the Board. It vr«s reported that the .jwegee p»id to the ÜBeoployed out of the money 7oted l>r looa

bodies amounted to £5C6 18s lid. Government subsidy to the amount of £497 6s had been received, IHVBBOABGILL, Septembbe 27. A one-year old son of Alexander Bain, Biohmond Grove, died from phosphorus poisoning. He had eaten the heacU of two matches.