INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10198, 1 May 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(PEE TOOTED PEESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND. April 30. Priestly, who was tried for Hamilton's alleged murder, is said to be gone digging in the Northern Wairoa district., . , , „.;,._ r ' '„'.'. '.' . A ; man named Bout, clerk at the Bush gum store, in Northern Wairoa, showing signs of mental aberration, was con- 1 veyed to the Asylum. He attempted^ suicide in the police cell at Kopuru, aud ; tried to throw himself f.rom the Helens- > ville train. - = A new Masonic Lodge, -the Albion, i -on the North Shore, was opened and consecrated to-day with great cchit. The Bussell, police have lately been making a raid on sly grog-sellers, a number having started selling when the prohibition was in' forpe against the natives obtaining spirits at licensed houses. • The Rev. J. Westwood is lecturing here on the great pyramid. GREYMOUTH, April 30. The Customs duties for April for this port amount to £2080 ; for the correspending month of 1882, £3285. The gold duty, £747; beer duty, £66. KTJMARA. April 30. The Railway Commissioners, acoom--panied by Mr 0. Y. O'Connor, Inspecting Engineer, and Mr J. G-. Gray, Secretary, arrived at 10 o'clpck on Saturday night. ' They visited the mines on Sunday morning, and proceeded to Hokitika in the- afternoon. They will return here this evening to take evidence on the proposed routes of the East and West Coast railway, and then proceed "to Greymouth. — . CHRISTCHURCH. April 80. A.portiqn r oi, the railway station was successfully 'illuminated' by the electric light on Saturday evening. • 'TIMARTJ- ■ April 30. The Customs revenue collected for the month of April amounted to £2138 8s 4s, as against .£I76S 8s 8s for the corresponding month last year. The vital statistics for April were — 41 births,.B marriages, -7 ■ deaths,. ,-.-rp... Very'heavy rain'has'beeii falling off and on all day, with -every -prospect of continuing^ .' : , :".%*?' '.»■'!. OAMARU. . -■■ -, ■ April 30. A woman named Hannah Daley was to-day fined i>lo, and costs, or in default fourteen days' imprisonment, for sly grog-selling. An uninsured stack of oats belonging to Mr S. Adams, of Hampden, has been destroyed by fire. It is now raining beavily, and there is every prospect of a flood. DTJNEDIN. April 30. At the inquest on the child burned at Port Chalmers on Friday the jury found a verdict of accidental death, adding that its life could have been saved had tho mother been sober. The steamer Penstanton -will begin loading here with a frozen muttoa cargo to-morrow or Wednesday.