INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13733, 24 October 1908, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. CARTERTON, October 23. A. C. Gallon claimed from W. C. Ordish £291 damages, alleged to have been caused by a bush tire during' the drought. The claim was afterwards reduced to £9l. The Magistrate held that plainUfl* wa.s obliged to prove that the fire lit. by defendant on February 6th was responsible for the damage- done on March Ist. It had only been proved that a lire raging on the flat- was responsible for the damage, but it was not shown where it originated. Plaintiff was nonsuited, with eusti, £2O 3s. There was a remarkably heavy hailstorm at 10.45 a.m. to-day. Hail a "quarter of an inch in diameter was followed by a, downpour of rain. WELLINGTON, October 25. The new law providing a rending test in English for Chinese arriving in the Dominion came into force to-day. It is expected that this will considerably reduce the number of immigrants front tlic Flowery Land. . ' The main trunk opening train will leave Wellington on the evening of Thursday. November sth. and there will be'a banquet at Auckland on arrival on the evening of the 6th. The Wellington Branch of the N.Z. Institnte of Architects to-night passed a resolution affirming that all Government works of importance should be competed for outside of the- Public Works Department, but denrecating anything that mav have been said or implied in Parliament deroaatory to the Government, architects*!* abilitifr- and recording confidence in Mr Canmbell and appreciation of his devotion to the interests of the Domimon.