INTERPROVINCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2799, 14 October 1892, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, October 13. Tlip Governor leaves for Auckland by the train on Monday, accompanied by Lady Glasgow. They make the trip up the Wanganui River en route, reaching Auckland m the Hinemoa on Thursday morning. At the request cf the Governor no member of the Cabinet will accompany him on his northern tour. It is expected that Lord Kelborne, eldest son of the Governor, will pay a visit to New Zealand m H.M.S. Curacba about the 18th November. "' , The Premier is steadily improving m health, and it is expected that he will leave for Wanganui next week to recruit. With reference to Mr Seddon's charge thac the Railway Commissioners had let a contract for coal and than lowered the rates, putting £5000 into the pockets of the contractors, the Commissioners state that this is quite true. Some time after giving a contract to Kennedy they lowered the freights on the West Coast 2d per ton, m consequence of the outcry against the competition of Newcastle coal, but with Kennedy's consent the amount of remission was deducted from the payments to him, and consequently he derived no benefit from it. They also stated that no favor has beer\ skow^a to any newspaper m advertising, arid thab the amounts paid to, each paper m the principal centres is within a few ppuntfs. the same. 1 At the City- Council to-nigh! the Mayor was presipntcsd with i% silver cradle, m commemoration of his son being born during his term of office. While some of the Government railway hands were engaged baling coal preparatory to its being pkced on an engine tender, they discovered a package which proved to be on© of Nobel's nitroglycerine cartridges t Had this not been, found no doubt one of the locom.ofiv.eß would l; ia ye been blown to pieces and a number of lives lost, 'AW Deparfon^it have comnßunioated with the Coal company having the contract for the supplyof coal to tllQ railways. Tfle company ; state that they do not use nitrp. glycerine m the mines, only bating, po.wder. The police have tl\o >#a,tter m Hand. PjmsrEDjiir, Oqtober 13. , A x Iftvge. number of persons assembled !on the arrival of the express train from the north, -when Messrs Pinkerton, Hutchison, and Earnshaw, M.ELR.'s, were accorded a hearty reception. They were conveyed m a drag to the Trades Hall, and addressed the crowd from a window. An address was presented, by the National Liberal Association and the ' Trades and Labor Cou^cp. Mr Pinkerton said thafc he had heard that a large number of men had been dismissed from the workshops. This, no doubt, was m order that the Commissioners might have a good record at th.c. e«d of the year. Mr Earnshaw characterised it as a $elihe|a,te. plot on th,e part of the Gon-

servative party to disorganise the labor market.