INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13558, 31 March 1908, Page 6

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Fur Praia AasodatiM. " AUCKLAND^IMxh'S!). A 1 gale which, delayed tl» stgMner Navua, at. Apai, drove several schooner's ashore' and wrecked some small craft. .The sea washed right across the maifi street doing cnabderabfe damage. -^ : \" GISBOBNE, March 30. * Oto Saturday night, a, -disturbance was - created in town through an. inebriated in- ' > dividual- on horseback riding, through the Salvation Army ring, > ami, striking a bystander named Joseph Spencer;, who inter- '-• ' posed/with a loaded sticky rendering;' him : Thff<VppHc» - arrested ' the who was'firied £5 this morning tfor;:dnittkennes», j on - the . <■""! '(Barge *, _ 1b» tpan.fcrho iras- ai&nkett, ..received -a ' ' nasty wound oii? his head;: but is^recover-. -•'. i«r. "V ' " *'.'-Vj' i «*:VV" ' -"'V ! "' * r ~ f % , " ■ - • " March 30. ' At a meeting of the Council of the. Evan- . ' gelical' Churches this evening it .was -rej, .solved to wait on the Ministers and protest against the needless amount of drill in volunteers camps on Sunday and .to urge-that no canteens be allowed in con- ° , nection with, the forthcoming Easter manoeuvres. - It'was alio decided to protect against noihtotaHsator clubs being allowed to , hold as many race meetings as they cbou.? and to urge that race days for ••auh dis--1 tricfr be "fixed on a population basis. BLENHEIM, March 30There was a sharp shock, of earthquake at 10_ o'clock on Saturday evening. The " direction of the shock was went and east. ' CHRISTCHTJRCH, March 30. . __ Lionel Terry is stated to be taking his incarceration in LytteHon gaol very philojopbicilty, and has as yet given'his custodnns no trouble. Though most of the members' of the Nimrod's crew are leaving the ship in the meantime, it is understood that they have i agreed-among themselves to reassemble in / - Lyfctefton in order to join the vessel on her second journey sooth to pick np the landing party. It is also suggested that Gaptain England may again take command. Mr S. Harris, of Little River has been asked to come forward as a candidate for the EHesmere seat at the general election, and has consented to do so. He will commence an active campaign on 'his return from England. DUNEDIN, March 30. A poll was taken at North-east Valley to-day on the proposal to discontinue the system of rating on unimproved values and to revert to rating on capital value. There, were 1545 voters' names on the roll but only little more than one-third of that number exercised the "privilege. The result was that 354 votes were cast against rating on unimproved values and 185 for it. The borough will, therefore, revert to capital value! system. It » understood tint Mr T. A. Bramble, manager of tb» Bank of .New Zealand at Outram, who was killed on the railway on Friday, was onder orders to join Ibe TJunedm "office this week.