INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3220, 26 March 1900, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. j AUCKLAND, March 24. ] The Government labour agent has \ received instructions to forward a party of good navvies accustomed to heavy £ earth and rock cutting to the Ohinemoa j section (North Island Main Trunk Railway), t Mr Champtaloup, of Champtaloup and j Cooper, booksellers, is dead ; aged 56. j Death was due to consumption. He was t a nephew of Mr Mudie, ol Mudie's \ Library, London, and leaves a widow and x family. ] A shipment of 45 tons of bones from £ Oamaru arrivdd by the Pukaki, but in accordance with the Harbour Boardregu- ( lations they will not be landed here. £ At the North Shore swimming sports, j Fraser won the championship (three , heats) in every heat. Hoey and Taylor did not compete. j GISBORNE, March 24. ■ At the inquest on the body of Walter ] Jennings, the verdict was that he was j drowned whilst under the influence of ! drink. Deceased was a prohibited per- ] son. The jury added a rider that they 1 deemed it a matter greatly to be deplored that the present liquor laws were < ineffective in preventing liquor being 1 obtained by prohibited persons. '. WELLINGTON March 24. ( On the Elderslie Estate, near Oamaru, , f6r which the Government recently paid ( £8 10s per acre, some very heavy yields | are being recorded. One section j threshed 126£ bushels of oats per acre, 80 of barley and 45 of wheat. Another section of 330 acres of wheat averaged 50 , bushels. j H.M.S. Tauranga leaves for Sydney to-day. Captain Stewart's and his < crew's time is out and the Diana brings j relief crewe. | CHRISTCHURCH, March 25. ' A welcome rain set in on Friday and lasted till late yesterday afternoon, when it cleared, and will do much good to the pastures, which were very dry. 1 Owing to the weather the Pioneer • bicycle and athletic sports were postponed*. !