INTERPROVINCIAL

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3551, 25 April 1901, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 24. Archdeacon. Dudley, of St. Sepulchre's parish, is dead. He" was one of the oldest and most popular Anglican clergymen in the colony. Archdeacon Dudley held confirmation classes at 9 p.m. yesterday- He was seized with a faint this morning', and expired. Robert Barlow Ferguson wag fined £IOO or one year's imprisonment for having an illicit still at Kennedy Bay. A fire at Waibino this morning destroyed Motgomery's billiard room, wtiHnmg' fancy goods shop, Schellack's fruit shop,, N. White's shop, and Harper's boardinghouse. The rest of the block was sg"* by a hose laid on from the Victoria Battery. The only insurance is on Williams' stock, £2OO.

The census returns for Coromandel Comity show the population to be 4197, as against 4987 in 1896.

WANGANUI, April 24. At the District? Court to-day two men ■were charged with stealing six bottles cf rum. One man named Trafford was found guilty, and will come up for sentence in the morning. ' A man named Bates' pleaded guilty indecently assaulting a child four years of age. He also comes up *or sentence in the morning. * A- shocking i occur-cd here ILis evening, a -woman named Caroline I eters being brutally assiutr' and :n---jured, especially about- the head and face She was takento the hospital, and !ier cordition is so serious that her deposition* have been taken. A man named Shanihaa has been arrested on suspicon.

WELLINGTON, April 24. During his visit to Australia, the Prelier intends to again urge that a cable etween New Zealand and Australia be

bid by the Governments of this colony and the Commonwealth. When last in Australia, Mr Seddon advocated .the undertaking as necessary and profitable The Keply given by Mr Barton, the Federal Pre-

pnier, was that he thought private enterprise would meet all requirements. Mr Seddon is convinced that the laying of a State-owned cable between New Zealand and Australia is within a reasonable distance of accomplishment. The tender of Mr J. T. Jones, of Timaru, £13,332, has been accepted for the Hut-t liver protection works. The scheme was propounded by Messrs Meason and Marchant, of Timaru, and the work is to be completed within 18 months. A Wellington firm has completed arrangements for shipping 1500 head of frozen poultry to South Africa every month.

The majority of the millers and merchants interested in the export of hemp from the port of Wellington, have agreed to pay the Agricultural Department 3d per bale to have their hemp graded.

INVERCARGILL, April 24.

A daring attempt to escape frcan gaol •was made this morning, by a man named Rockstrow, •who is doing a month for dynamiting fish, and is to come .up for charges of breaking and entering and arson tomorrow. He took the opportunity immediately after the prisoners were let out into the yard, by quite acrobatic feats, to catch the bars outside a cell windojr and reach the roof, and cross by the inns" > to the crater wall. He was about to drop when he saw the gaoler ready to pounce on him, and with cat-like agility returned the way he came. He will be charged in open court to-morrow. [ Regarding the discsvery of the body of an infant buried in a gully near Wyndham, ifc has been ascertained that the mother is a girl, aged fourteen years, who Is in service, who went about her work ' as usual and only admitted the facts when i taxed by her mistress. It is understood f that the medical evidence is inconclusive I -whether the infant breathed, and the F charge will probably be concealment of birth. The inquest was adjourned. The following are the correct results of the- recent medical examinations connected . -with the University of New Intermediate—A. E. Baron (chemistry), A. S. R- Crawford (chemistry and physics*, Tuture Wi Rapa (chemistry), T. Hughes (biology); first professional—Agatha H. J. Adams, J. H. G. Robertson, Rosa Gollier, L W. H. Fearless, E. N. Liversey, R. A. Bagley; second professional—J. H- H. BaHlie, C. H. Gordon.