Interprovincial News

Bruce Herald, Volume VII, Issue 650, 17 November 1874, Page 6

Interprovincial News

An exchange says that "so great are the improvements at present going on at Auckland — io. the shape of erecting brick buildings—that it is thought the town of Auckland of 1874 will not be known in 1875. Buildings, too, are going up in every direction out of the city The city improvements and other public works that are g"i»K on make the trade very brisk there at preßeut '' Th« hiyh prices of cattle an Hokitika has attracted attention in Australia, and we (• Tim^s ') are credibly informed, that a shipment will shortly be received from Queensland of first-class stock. Ho matter trom what quarter th*y come, cattle or sheep cannot h« other than welcome to housekeepers who are at present suffering from the high pi-ices ruling. Maori wants to know why Smyth did not save some of the feathers of the moas which he p-ete 1 ded to have caught ? Home idea of the amount of work that devolve* on the Napier Telegraph Office m;iy be gathered from the fact that tiftHt'u officers ;irß employed therein, and none of them are idle.

The'N. Z Herald' cays, that a hnrdygnrdy man, a recent Feath^rgtoiiian importation has been netting £1.0 a week iv Auckland.

The ' Boiler News,' writing on the late disaster which befel the schooner Alma, says ; — '• a singular incident is coupled with this accdent wh'ch Btrikingly illustrates the ohen->niena of dreams. On the m-rui'ig of the disaster, the mate remarked to another of the crew ' I am fciire something i» goin^ to hrtppen. I have been drvaming ail niijht about my m<nher and father*' Tin* was shortly afterwards mentioned +o the captain, who natunilly enough no importance to it. indeed, under any circumstance?, the disaster could n<>h have been foreseen nor provided against " It vll be remembered that the mate was cue of the two diifortun ate men who lost their lives.

SShearmg in the Mnrlb rough Province was finished at the first shed fi.r the season at Flaxbonrne on Thur.-dvy, November 5. The total amount shor<» was 60,^(0 and the work was done at the rate of 36U0 daily by 28 hands. Of this wool, 245 bales have been already shipped to Wellington.' whence it will be forwarded home by the Halcione now loading.

Californian apples and onions are now being sold in Auckland at prices that leave a considerable profit to the importers. A. Thames paper says that what is sold as milk there used to be half water, but that this is no longer the state of affairs, the water having increased to three-quarters.

Three y< ung men in Aucklaud were recently charged with having committed eight potty larcenies in two days. They said, in extenuation, that they were strangers in the country, and would prom-ac to leave it by the first opDortmity. They were each sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, which surprised them considerably.

In reply to a matrimuni--il advertisement in the Auckland ' Star,' the following appeared : — " Matrimonial Notice. I" answer to the above advertisement of the 12rh iust , if George S will Bend his Carte de Visite to the undermentioned addresses, we shall be moat, happy to c->mmunica,to in a definite manner with a view io future correspondence. Strictest confidence will be maintained. — Emily O'Donahue, Bridget O'Keefe, Kate Burns, Constance O'Brien, 'Star' office, Auckland.' I—lt1 — It is t > b^ lv>ped i hat George S will feel happy in comp*yinir with the request of the fair maids of Auckland.