INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11545, 28 July 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

• PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION". TAURANGA. July 27 Fish are so plentiful that they were selling at 2s 6d a cartload to-day. PALMERSTOS NORTH. July 27 . ; At the sitting of the District Court . 'to-day, Thomas Moora was charged with attempted criminal assault on a girl aged 7 years. Be w^s found guilty on iboth counts of the indictment, and sentenced to 12 mouths' imprisonement with 25 lashts. NEW I'3,YoIQUTH. June i 27 The Opuuake eorres;>O' dent of the Taranaki Herald wires ihat ie Whiti, the Maori prophet ut Pari'mka, has baen fiaed ;£lO for sly-grog s lling. WELLINGTON, July 27 At the Resident Magistrate's Court this mor nine:, John Young, ironmonger, was fined £5 and a treble amount of tax for neglecting to send ia returns under the Property Assessment Act. James Floyd was brought to the hospital last night from Otaki, suffering from internal injuries sustained by a tree falling on him while bush felling. No date has been fixed for the issue of the writs, but it is expected to be within a month. It is stated that Mr Maxwell, the general manager of New Zealaud railways, has received six months' leave of absence, and ia about to visit Europe. He will also be accredited by the New Zealand Government lo a conference of railway engineers and managers, about to be held in Milan. The Poultry Show was opened at the Masterton Drill Shed yesterday, and was a great success. The entries were numerous and the quality of exhibits excellent. Most of the prizes were carried off by local exhibitors, Messrs Roger and Co, of Wellington, being fairly suooassfal. Mr W. L. Ourtis took a majority of prizes for pigeons, and Messrs Hyde and Jbtoss for canaries. The case of the Northern Land.Loan, and Building v. City Advance and Depository, in the Supreme Court, was concluded to-day, his Honor reserving judgment. Ann Parker, for stealing a watch from the body washed ashore at Petone, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Two hundred and eighty pounds of gun cotton, in four charges, was fired at the submerged hulk, Eli Whitney, off

tbe end of the Kail way Wharf, this evening. The explosion was felt over a great part of the town, and a large number of fish were killed, but little timber came to the surface, and it is not yet known whether the attempt has been more successful than other experin ments in the same direction. BLENHEIM. July 27 Tha Marlborough Times henceforth runs in suoport of the Ministry. Mr .Richard Winter has bean appointed editor. CHETSrOHUBOH Jidy27 The barque Looh Orr (Oapt Murdoch) arrived from London to-day, after a passage of 102 days. She experienced fine weather throughout the voyage. On June loth, when off the Island of St Paul's, one of the seaoatn named James Maro*unt fell from aloft and sustained injuries to his face and head. He was attended to, but died on June 19th. The Loch Orr brings 1100 tons of merchandise, and comes consigned to the New Zealand Shipping 00. The Freemasons of the English Cons 3fcitution in this distriofc h»ve contributed £54 towards the Jubilee Memorial Some.

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