INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 152, 29 June 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

INTERPROVINCIAL.

During Monday's review in phristchurch several of tho leading * hotels closed for a time in order to enable the employees to witness the review. There is a serious oMhveuk of typhoid at Waitara, and the New Plymouth Hospital authorities refuse to take in any more patients. The people of Opunako are formulating a harbour Bill. The Molyneux river (Otago) is , again falling to normal, and, if the frost continues, it will soon enable the dredges to get on to the golden wash. ' Transplanting trees from the Tapanui Nursery to the State forest at Dusky Sound is now proceeding' apace (says the Courier), and a large number of men and boys are employed at) tko work. Farm work ; is going on steadily in the < Tapanui district, and ploughing for next year's crop is being proceeded with. The area of grain is likely to be less than for some years past. The people of Caversham, Dunedin, are anxious about their foreshore, the last heavy storm having cut away more of the bank behind the beach at St. Clair. They have asked the Government to send down an engineer to report, as a preliminary to asking for five or six thousand pounds for protective works. A maorocarpa tree cut the other -day was found to have in the centre the initials " J.R.," in letters 6in long and 4inwide, dark in colour, as if branded with a hot iron. The explanation is said to be that a Mr Rbberteon, who planted the trees, cut his ' initials pretty deep into the young tree, the .bark of whioh subsequently closed: over the incisions, and that the letters expanded with the growth of the tree. „ At a meeting of creditors in the estate of a bankrupt at Napier, the debtor (examined at length) stated that he hod commenced business in Napier' in March, 1900, with a capital of £50, £5 of which he had deposited in a bank to open an account, and he was still trying to .think how the other £45 bad been expended, The Egmont Post understands that the Moturoa Freezing Works will be taken over by the Associated Dairy Companies at the end of the present month; - In a slander case, Benj. G. Thompson v. H. Templeton (claim £550), heard recently at the Supreme Court, Invercargill, before Mr. Justice Cooper and a jury of twelve, a verdict was given for plaintiff for £80, with costs on the lowest scale. 'It was noted in Christchurch as a striking coincidence that the most remarkable and admired' illumination in the city during the R/oyal visit (the Cathedral tower) should have been the monument erected to the ' memory of the father of Mr. Rhodes, in whose house the city's guests were lodged. The Mataura Ensign is responsible 1 for the following: — "We understand that efforts were made recently to form an oat buyers' combine at Invercargill, but that, owing to the action of one recalcitrant buyer in standing out, jthe proposed ring fell through, and, as a consequence, oats have risen." Waipori residents, says the Taieri Ad« vocate, are regretting the loss of one of their oldest and most respected residents in the person of Mrs. Knight, who has died at the advanced age of 81 years. Mrs. Kndglit was a resident of the famous diggiflf township as far baok as 1864. A member of the .New Zealand detective force has been proceeded against in Christchurch with the view of compelling him. to make provision for the maintenance of his alleged illegitimate child.. Thus the Taieri Advocate jubilates on a local event: — Mye light! more light I The measly glimmers which supply the light alter dark in the Mosgiel streets are being replaced by "real, bran new lamps." Think of it! What does this mean ? Really more light, the saints' be praised! Alas, even to indulge in ft further waste of kerosene! Detective Fitzgerald, of Timaru, has been granted six months' , leave of absence, and, accompanied by Mrs,- Fitzgerald, intends to leave on a trip to Ireland. The Ashburton Guardian has been informed of a local example of the generosity of Mr Andrew Carnegie, the milr lionaire. A schoolmate of Mr, Carnegie'fs at their native parish school at Dunfermline, who has been a, somer what unsuccessful settler in this colony for years, was prompted to write a private letter to Mr. Carnegie, commenting on the extraordinary difference in their positipns. Recently our New Zealand feWpw. colonist received a draft from Mr. Carnegie, and a promise of £200 a year for l#e. ; The tradesmen on the Waihi gpldfield have decided, owing to the operation of the contract system and the Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act, to adopt the cash system. f The Southland Daily News learns on good authority that at the present rate of Taxation for compensation^ for accidents the Nightcaps Coal Company in its comparatively small way will have to pay over '£2oo a year. It is estimated that the Westport Coal Company will require, on the same basis, to pay fully £2500 per year, The latter .company contributes at the present moment probably over £700 per »y ear" in taxation under the Coal Miners' Relief Tax Act. ' The largest number of co-operative labourers engaged on any one Government work during May was 1087 (of whom 87 were artisans) on the Gisborne-Karaka railway. A Rouen duck lately killed in Auckland.seems to have been smitten vritix the collecting mania. An inventory of the contents of its gizzard waa taken, with the' fallowing result: — One fourpenny piece,, one threepenny-piece, a plain gold ring, j a ladyjjf staylace, a small button-hook, a bone shirt-stud, the metal clasp of a hymnbook, a bronze halfpenny, the *case of a lady's Waterbury watch, and a few specks of alluvial gold.' The Dunedin Education Board inspectors have been requested, in view of the dislocation of school work for some time past, to confine the examination of standard six to pass subjects: Now that the last public function for which the northern annexe of the Chrischurch Exhibition was required has been got over, the building will be removed. It is intended to lay out and level the f round on the northern side as h*s been one on the southern portion.