INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 2975, 12 June 1899, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. June 10. Stores and other cargo from the Hinemoa for Tiritiri, Little" Barrier, Cuvier, Mokohinou, and Cape Maria lighthouse, were to-day transhipped to the Tutanekai, the latter having received orders to work those places. The Hinemba has sailed for East Island. Henry Sutherland was to-day committed for trial for passing a gilt penny for a florin. Other charges are pending. A new Kaihu license has been granted by the Committee despite the opposition of the police and prohibitionists. A, young girl named Elizabeth Hill, charged with abandoning her child, was brought up at the Police Court to-day. The case was partly heard. Bail was enlarged. Detective Herbert said that the accused stated that the father of the child was John Tait who is employed m the Newmarket railway workshop. In order to enquire into this story the police allowed a remand with a view to arresting Tait. He was working at the railway workshops until the 23rd or 24th of May, and could not be found. The police could not swear that he had left the colony. Mr Brookfleld, counsel for the accused, said that his defence was that the girl had a child ; that Tait was the father, and that he took the child away ostensibly to ward out, and would not tell the girl where it was. The case was adjourned. WELLINGTON, June 10. At a public meeting a resolution was carried m favour of sending the Wellington Garrison Band to take part m the international band contest at Bathurst m November. A committee was formed to raise the necessary funds, £400. June 11. Monday, the 19th, will be kept as a holiday m the Government offices throughout the colony, m recognition of Arbor Day. , CHRISTOHURCH, June 11. Mr Crabbe, the newly appointed Government veterinary inspector at Wootton's yard, arrived last night,, and takes up his duties to-morrow. Theentries for the Winter Show number 809, including a large quantity of roots and grain. There beinu no room for stock and machinery numbers of entries m these classes had to be refused. For the dog trials of the Christchurch Collie Club next week, 220 entries have been received, forming a record for any such meeting m the colony. On Saturday morning a young girl named Violet Keid, whose parents liv«* m the North Island, a domestic servant at Mr F. D. Woodroffe's, Templeton.was so severely burned that she died of her injuries at the hospital this morning. She was lighting a fire m a stove when her clothes caught fire. She rushed outside, and was soon 8 mass of .flame. Mr Woodroffe went to her assistance and got the flames out, but not before the girl's body and legs were badly charred, and his hands much burned m his efforts. A brother of deceased lives m Courtney Place, Wellington. Mr Gilruth, chief Government veterinary surgeon, has received from the veterinary officers of the Board of Agriculture, England, a letter m the following terms :— " We have examined the specimen you sent, and we agree that the lesions are those of swine fever as we find it m this country." The specimen was from one of the pigs condemned at Mataura. A man was arrested at Kaiapoi last night under peculiar circumstances for stealing a bicycle four years ago. The bicycle was stolen from the Star Cycle Works, and m possession of the accused until a week or two ago, when he sold it to another man who took it to the Star Works for repairs when it was recognised and detained, the arrest following almost immediately. GREYMOUTH.June 10. Curiosity was excited this .morning by a large three-masted steamer, with black funnel, being seen off the coast and quickly making away north-west. DUNEDIN, June 11. . William Bryant, aged about 49 years, died suddenly to-day at South Dunedin ; it is supposed from heart disease. A 'dense fog came on about half-past 4 o'clock, and will interfere with the movements of the Shipping.