INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2789, 29 May 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

NAPIER, Last Night, The intelligence of the wreck of the steamer Ashleigh Brooks caused great concern in Napier to shippers of frozen meat, as she was to take sixteen thousand carcases. The loss of any freezing vessel is severely felt, owing to the pressure on the storage space at the freezing works. Messrs Hoadly and Co. sold on Monday the Royaton Estate, nine miles from Napier. The estate was the property of Mr l.'\ Sutton, formerly M.11.R. for Hawkes' Bay, and consisted ot 359 acres of some of the richest land in the Ahuriri Plains. The price realised was £2S per acre. TIMARU, Last Night. Thirty or forty lots of Crown lands, the leavings from former periods of purchases, on river beds, steep facings, and rocky hillsides, were open for application to-day, and though the land is poor there was quite a rush of applicants. INVERCARGILL, Last Night, The Farmers' Arms Hotel, Wyndbara, has been burnqd down. It was occupied by J. Milne, and the insurance on the building was : New Zealand, Phcenixand National, each £300 ; on the furniture, £400 in the New Zealand. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, Jas. Holmes, found guilty of forging and uttering, was | sentenced to twelve months' hard labour ; Josiah White, found guilty of fraudulent bankruptcy, was sentenced to six monthi hard labour, and \V. King, who pleaded guilty to stealing £23 from a Maori, was sentenced to fifteen months' hard labour, W. Piggott, accused of complicacy iu the same case, waa acquitted,