INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13637, 3 July 1908, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Picss Association.) AUCKLAND, July 2. James Alwin Schmidt, and Matthew William Cummings, who were employed ab Hie Auckland Post' Office, were charged at the Police Court with the thefi of postal notes valued at £2 and 2s .6dl i*s»pectively. The Crown Prosecutor stated that o'Lhei charges l are pending .unit asked for a, lemand till Satmd.iy, which was granted. The output of, hemp for the last V* months as indicated 'by the quantity pausing through the 'local trading stdies, shows, a" gieat tailing off, pnitiiUlarly lor thei last quarter. The tigmts! for the six months weie 3036 tons as agaiiiht 6345 tons ior the toi responding period of he,6 yeai ' ELTHAM, July 2 At a sale of purebred Jersey stock held at Mangatoki jesterday on behalf of Mr R J Linn, prices geneially were an favour of buyeis, although some good figures weie obtained v The bull, fir. William, for -which the owner paid 66gus, went for 47igns; the bull Golden Gate fetched 48gns.

PALMERSTON N., ,July 2. Lady Plunket addressed il large meeting of townspeople to-day regarding -the formation of a Palmeist6n branch Of the Plunket Nurse Society It was resolved to fprm a- branch .here. . ,