INTERPROVINCIAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5503, 2 March 1896, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Association.! NEW PLYMOUTH, Maech 2. I A large number of Maoris are assembling j at Mangaone Pah, near here, in readiness ■ for the Parihaka meeting on March 17. Major Kemp and 300 Wanganui Natives are expected, also 200 from Waikato. The meeting will be addressed by leading chiefs about March 10, and will afterwards march to Parihaka. No political significance is attached to the meeting. NAPIER, Maech 2. At the Magistrate's Court to-day William Boyle was charged with stealing .£IOO from a man named M'Naughton. The latter was arrested in Napier for drunken- \ nes3 last week with .£219 in his possession. M'NaugnJon left town for the country having previously purchased two bottles of whisky. He went into a blacksmith's shop at Kaikora, where the liquor was consumed, and fell asleep. On awakening he found that ,£IOO had gone. Subsequently .£9O was found buried in the shop. Boyle had a portion of the missing . money ■ when arrested. Accused was remanded. \ DUNEDINiMARCH2. ' Second Lieutenant Waddell, late of Christchurch, has been "ordered to join the Second Battalion of the West Riding Regiment at Natal. The Dunedin City Guards will be represented at the Oamaru Federal Rifle Meeting by Captain Smith, Lieutenant Jack, Sergeant Clark and Privates T. Jones and C. Sontag.