INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13995, 2 September 1909, Page 6

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Fbt Ptw Amciition. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 1., Tlio Customs revenue for August was £3721, as compared with £3238 for August in 19(W. The totalfor -five months of the financial year is £1661 in excess of the corresponding -period ot last year. GISBOIINE, Sept. 1. With reference to the telegram from -Wellington regarding*. Elsie Liudergrcen, the alleged, victim of a. mock marriage, counsel • for ' Airs liandergreen produced in Court a telegram addressed to her "Nurse Elsie Hose, Seddon Ward, Wellington Hospital," which Tfai delivered' to her there, and he stated .that she left the hospital on May 27th. Elsie Rose was her maiden naiiie: - * , . - . ■ r,\ yv -NAPIER, Sept. 1. The: Government baa purchased for closer settlement purposes Duff Bros,' Clyde Bank Estate at Wairoa. - The property .comprises .9000 acres' within four. mileb of the .town of Wairoa, 1 on the Frasicrtown Road, and is admirably adapted for cutting up.

CHRISTCHUBCH, Sept. 1. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Henry Potter, pleaded guilty to four charges of forgery, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. .T. A'. Blackett pleaded guilty to two charges and was aleo committed for sentence. In. all cases the forgeries were to cheques for email amountsA stupendous proposal was (submitted to the Harbour Board to-day by Mr Aitken, iivlio' wrote suggesting cutting a ■ gap in the Port Hills from Lyttelton to the City, the gap to bo half a mide wide at the top and a quarter of a mile at the bottom. This would afford space for 'half a dozen railway lines and two good roads from the port, to the city ,and the spoil'taken out could be used for reclamation at the port and making breast works. The

scheme stupendous thqt it took ? the members'' breath jaway, but the * letter, was s received: The eug- . gested. his- scheme because df the differ- • enc of opinion ; regarding the. canal, and. improved communication for years.