INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13638, 4 July 1908, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 3. Detective Coney has returned 4o Rotorn ;i with a half-caste girl of fifteen, ■whom, Rua had taken as his wife. Rua's son and the council of. elders refused to give the girl up, threatening to cut off the head' of the girl's father and shoot the police party. The detective informed them, tliatf if they used force troops would I>3 sent to dtstroy them, and their Pa. After considerable delay the Maoris handed' 'the girl over. Rua's people are very short of food. There are only a few men in the village, but there are a. number of women and children who are half starved WELLINGTON, July 3, The first information in Wellington under the amended Gaming and Lotteries Act was dealt with by Mr Riddell, S.Mi, to-day, wlien two Chinamfen named Ah Joe and Joe Wee were each fined £SO and cosbs for having sold pakapoo tickets. Ten Europeans were cacli lined £2 10s for being found on the premises. CHJUSTCxiURCH, ' July 3. ; At a meeting of ihe Canterbury Industrial Association to-night, a resolution was carried strongly protesting against any' proposal to extend; the, harbour works at Lyttelton, the opinion being expressed that such. would prejudice th& canal scheme. DUNKDIN, July 3. Repairs to the fluming at. the Waipori Falls electric - power station • w?re coijipleted to-day, and the power turned ;on at 3 p.m. Everything is now worKing satisfactorily.