INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13996, 3 September 1909, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

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AUCKLAND, Sept. 2. - > No further information lias com© ;tO. •; liand' respecting the lifebelts iound . near Capo Maria -Van Dicmcn, : but it v--.» is pointed out that the belts'may l • been : washed; from- tho- decks" of a ■ P&sa*. : V: ing steamer. ; > ' At the Polic© Court this jnorning,'

Arnold Hare, a young man, w»' - charged Vrith having stent to T. &. Clal-k, letters containing threats, with '- intent to extort money. A letter .was f , received by Clark, demanding £SO fo£ not disclosing matters concerning •> certain firm. Tlio money was to ljb ' deposited at a certain place.,; The 1 police were informed, a watch was set,- < and accused arrested. At the request of the police, accused 'was remanded. 1 ; < Bail in two sureties of £SO each was, allowed. „ % ( , ,The oxjxirfcs from' Auckland in Aug*' list showed an, increase-in most lines . v : compared with August of 1908;. and iAa.v,.frozen beefy flax and tallow, lncreafieht,on last montil's exports. The gold. 1 port was £G3,590, against '£57,197, r„, the previous year.j - 11 „.' 1 • Tlio rainfall,in. Auckland- for . Auguijt of,' was 7.13' inches. The{ average "fall 'roll 'August is 4.33 inches.v . . . "WELL] N(3TON,, Sept., 2." \/ The -Manapouu arnved from tbo Islands this intoning, after/,a. .rough , 4 v trip all the way. > She brings-a large quantity of fruit and 1 produce. Papeete on August 22nd, tho .> j l»uri, exchanged ina#s, cargo,, and l , - passengers witli the Mariposa, *• Which * is due at San Francisco to-morrow.x^y;.» The "Evening Post's, correspondent at-San Francisco reports thnt ( \-, seventeen of the Maoris of ,'tll© i hiik*, tiopo for the Now York were detained at■ San' to be suffering from - ' disease. -Medical advice called in by, 'the representatives of tho,Maoris, ship, and tho Hippodroirie, • ment, was to the effect that t the Maoris were fiee from disease. A i deadlock ensued, >the landing of the Maoris suspects being refused. Later'-they weV©. ~ allowed to land at San -Francisco. Two. -V ' other New Zealanders^: went by the, p.iiw boats,'vera stopped because they suffered''from' and had to return t»/N©w Zealand. \V^ Elsie l.iiidergreen '.-(concerned ju - alleged inoclc mnTrjago,affair) _waj» T ployed I ,in the.Wellington hospital as fc <!) maid servant, not as a nurse, * as ah - >' stated in the Gisborne Court,. It,' tvn© that she received <■ a telegram. 'ad- ■ '*4 dressed to heras'a nurse. For tliis>f M >{ she was ■ reprimanded^:'then ■ blib without giving notice, sending> for>her-','. ■ luggage Biibstjquenily. 1 <r' >Tlie division of tho Department of Agnculturo has been strengthened '« by the appointment of Mr W. Graham, ' i of New South Wales, Mr G.,E. Wood, <s manager of tho Whatakonga Idairy. factory, aM Mr C. Stevenson, man* ager of tliq- Cardiff factory. t

DUNEDIN, Sept*. 2. . • Tlio "Star's" Brisbane correspondent advisfcs that tlio recently constitut- ;> *• ed Draughts Association M' Australa-' \ sia lias appointed Mr Robert Caldow its first president, Mr JJutterfield, sec- ' retarv, and Mr Hilliker, treasurer. - As all,these' are residents *ti Dunedin,\ it follows that the next' Australasian- , championship will be played u in this , 1 city. Mr Jioreham, tlie champion,\ i turns by the Mokoia' via , * t \ S f r"