INTERPROVINCIAL.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1016, 7 June 1878, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(From our own correspondent.) ; Wellington, June 3. In reference to the amount of the three and half mi-ions loan which has been anticipated the ' Post ' to-night says .the guaranteed, debentures to the extent of £500,000 issued by the late Government, and the loan of 1,000,000 obtained from the Banks of New Zealand and New South, Wales on short dated debentures will absorb £1,800,000 out of the total of £3,500,0001 A sum of £30,000 must also be Bet aside to meet provincial liabilities which came to General Government W a legacy from the Provincial Governments. This apparently leaves a balance of only . £1,400,000 to meet the expenditure on Pub- 1 lie Works during the year, but to, this | amount will be added £980,000, the balance remaining in hand on the 30th June, 1877, so that the actual' sum available for public works during the year may be set down at £2,380,000. Of course, as the financial year closes on the"3oth of the present month, and as a number of public works have been sanctioned by Parliament in anticipation of the loan being raised, it follows that a considerable portion . of the; money now made available has been forestalled, and in. point of .fact; spent in * this way. What this may amount to 'cannot be ascertained. * It has been raining continuously for the last four days, and the streets are in a wretched condition: The new reservoir has now, over forty feet of water in it and is still rising.

[Press Agency.] Auckland, June 6th. At the Police Court, to-day, Alexander Campbell, charged with attempting to murder a man named Smith, by putting arsenic in a, tea case, was remanded.

Gxahamstown, June 6th. The Council to-day decided to send their Chairman to the Wellington Conference^ on the 21st July. .The Finance Committee recommended that,, the. Counties Act be amended, cc as to "enable the ratepayers to elect two Auditors, and that tbe accounts of local Boards receiving Government aid be subsequently, audited by the Government Auditor.- ,

Wellington, June 6. A Gazette to-night notifies the delegation of the Governor's powers under the. Miners' Act to the Chairman of the County Council of Southland, to be exercised only within the boundaries of the said county.

- Arrangemeuts have been made by, . the Government by which all those persons in the Colony holding offices as Resident Magistrates who are not lawyers rirast relinquish their appointments, the Government being about to appoint one man in each provincial district to act as district judge and Resident Magistrate, this person being in every case a lawyer. A roll of J.Ps. will be made up, and those J.Ps. who do not attend to ' their duties as laid down on the roll will be struck off the roll.

Christohurch, June 6. '. It is proposed to establish a cricket club composed exclusively of natives of Australia and Tasmania. Dast night the congregation of the Trinity Congregational Church presented their late pastor (Rev. W. J. Hobens) with a silver tea and coffee service, 160 soys, and an illuminated address. Mr Habens leaves Christchurch shortly for Wellington, to enter on his appointment as Inspector -General of Schools. Mr Gilligan of, Wellington has purchased Delamain's training establishment at YaldBurst, and purposes to engage Aahoroft, of Sydney, as his trainer.