INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2356, 30 March 1897, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

■v. .;:-■■>..- -s fßx Tblbobaj?^''- 1 '■■'■"' ■'■. '.'■■ : , WELLINGTON*. 29.- ; 1 In reply to a request fromfthe Rev. Mr Van gtaveren, the Minister pi Charitable Aid .after „ communicating with. , the trusses of the institution^ had autho-i rised & Commission of Enqdiry 1 inib; the mode of conducting the home for. the aged and needy,; „. / ' A, cyclist named, Apjin, rid|ng.betwesn Greytbwn. and Cartertori on' Saturday, was stuck up by a man, who threatened to shoot him tinlese he gave up all his money. Aplin turned out » his pockets, giving the man ash il ling, aa<^ was then told to 'go; After proceeding about 1 twenty yards Aplin heard a" shot which struck a telegraph post near. Aplin then rode to Grey town and informed the police, who.made search for the assailant,! but so far without success. X ■' ,'.... CHRISTCHURCH, March 29. ", .! Mr J. D; Lance, of Horsley Downs, who contested; the Superintendency of Canterbury with Mr Moorehpuse m 1866, and sat m several . Parliaments, died suddenly at Highfield, Atnuri, on Sunday night. • INVERCARGILL; March 29. A daring but clumsy burglary was committed early on Sunday 'morning at the shop Of Mr Alexander Ferguson, watchmaker. A hole was broken m the back plate glass window, apparently by a hammer, and £57 worth of jewellery abstracted. A shutter m the 'shop of Mr Craig, watchmaker, was also removed, but the robber found no goods m the window. Singularly, the nqise made did not disturb the police. . One of the Invercargili Tramway Company's cars was destroyed by fire last night and it is believed to, be the work I of an incendiary. The loss will amount; to about £150. '