INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 6 May 1901, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press • Association.

NEW PLYMOUTH, May 4 % The S.M- was engaged yesterday and today hearing a charge against Sarah Marsh of removing survey pegs on land at Wa*». Defendant, who is a half-caste, was fined £1 and costs, and warned that a repetition of the offence would be more severely dealt with.

WANGANUI, May 4.

The body of Arthur Porteg, aged 27, was found in the river this morning. He had been dead about a week. : He-arrived from. Wellington three or four weeks ago. with introductory letters from a French firm there, in which it was stated that he wanted to invest money. Over £SO was.found in his clothes. He is supposed to have an uncle in the Marlborough district. . i WELLINGTON, May 4. The Dairy Commissioner states that the ■ manufacture of factory butter in Auckland district has increased 47 per cent, compared with the output for the previous year. WESTPORT, May 5. The Westport Coal Company's output for the past week was 9220 tons 4 cwt of coal. OAMARU, May 5. •At the annual meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association the report showed a credit balance of £296. Mr G. Livingstone was elected president. An elderly woman, Mrs F. Hill, died suddenly in the street on Friday, and at an inquest a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. DUNEDIN, May 4. The census shows the population of Peninsula- Connty to be 2563, as against 2645 in: 1896; Taieti County 7179, as against 6950; Waikouaiti-County 4080, as against 4389. The census returns for Peninsula County are 2563, against 2645 in 1896; Taiari County 7179, against 6950; Waikouaiii County 4080, against 4189. '-""