INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXX, Issue 12351, 19 April 1904, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

• fer. Press' Association.

5v.-.-:.-.' ";;; AUCKLAND, April 18. ■, .Four young men were charged in the Police Coprtto-day wjth playing "two-up" on- Freerhari's Bay reclamation on, Saturday. One man was remanded, two charges were dismissed, and. one man, Arthur Johnston, Tragi convicted and fined £5.: Tw» charges of - alleged «ly-grog selling on' Great Barrier Island were heard in the Police. Court to-dny. It was admitted in both cases that rum was supplied, but in defence it was pleaded that accused were merely agents getting the liquor from the steamer when she, called, and transferring itjflthoiit making a profit to the consumer tt * 'neighbourly .way. The Magistrate (Mr Kettle) dismissed the information..

GISBORNE, April 18. f The r Gisborne. Sheep Farmers' Company's' steamer Nantiluß left Gisborne at 6 o'clock 4hi* 1 evening, with the, object of > taking the dismasted scow Hoanga in tow. East Is- 1 land lighthouse to-day advised that the. Hoanga Kid shifted" nearer the shore, and is now out of sight of. the lighthouse. ■An old age pension* was cancelled to-day on account of intemperance. Ten local fruit growers are approaching the Government , through -,- Mr r Boucher, Pomolbgist, with' 'a/ y iew., of - obtaining a block of 280' fßcieSi for systematic fruit culture. It Is proposed to cut this block up gections;of 10 to. 40 ftcres,; •<lch gfowey.jto .take a fruit-rone growing apricotSj'ariptlier so on; v A co-oberative factory' would be established in the middle of the sections, and canning, etc., carried on !n an up-to-date manner.

Wellington, Aptu is. The Acting-Minister ,ior, Public Works states that any money the Government.can afford to spend '.on t extra- works will-be needed to repair the damages caused by the floods in. different .part*, of the colony. MoribpijjuUßh nriiT Nelson have suffered seyereW^ 1 wTiile'efowhere some of the main traffic bridges have been washed away entirely,,; ■■- <■•;<■. -' -j.'/ :;'<* '"•■ '■' -"-" : '■ The' Premier is. due (rom;the:Wairarapa to-morrow'.' '■"* is better now: than for sometime pagr..E''T&'ig'-'nnilsrs't6od that Mr Seddon'wi'l proceed to'the Chathams durIngltH'ftJweik, spending a fortnight;fhei;e,, '' - g,iJj "-fiJIUM I rtl'ilfl . 'i' l "'''""J."'''"" -;,''■':■,