INTERPROVINCIAL ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 47, 23 August 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)

INTERPROVINCIAL ITEMS.

Tho travelling correspondent of tho Taieri Advocate, writing of events among fanners on the Taieri Plains, says that several large sales of cattle have been made during the last fow days. Buyers for export to Sydney have been operating, as well as several city butchers.

A large frostfisli, measuring over 4ft in leugth, was caught in Carolino Bay (Tiinaru) by two lads the other day. Tho Herald says that very few of these beautiful and delicious fish have been caught during the winter months. Ti maru is anxious to have a TorreyAlexander mission.

v Civil Service Crickot Club is being organised in Timaru.

At a public meeting held last week it was stated that the population of Mosgiel hod increased by 300 only in ten years.

It is stated that the work of erecting tho new railway station at Dunedin is shortly to be commenced. The prelimdiary work of constructing the roadway at the back is now in hand, so the reasons advanced for delay on that score- will soon be removed.

The Tiinaru Borough Council ha« aocept«d plans for its proposed abattoirs, for tho erection of which the Government has granted a loan of £5000. The chosen plans were forwarded to Mr. Gilruth chief veterinarian, and as soon, as his approval is obtained the Council will call for tenders for the erection of buildings The Mayor invited the local butchers to inspect all the fiv* competitive plans, and they selected th© same plan as the oouncil chose.

Whitebait have made their appearance in the Buller luver in small shoals Prior to leaving Oamaru to lake up the chief clerkship in the Maaterton Post and Telegraph Offices, Mr. H H Cork was presented witfc a number of souvenirs of a lengthy term of service in (Jamaru. Scarlet fever has broken out again at B ackball and the school there his been closed. Tho Mail states that the Otaki Maoris nave lately taken a great interest in ping-pong, and have now formed a club. Several of the natives show considerable skill at the game. Colonel Webb, Captain Hobday, Lieu, tenant Batchelor, Staff Sergeant-Major larthing, and an officer of the Public Works Department, visitdd the new riile range at Sumner last week, and arrangements were made for the early completion of the woik. It is anticipated that the rang© will be open for practice on tho first Saturday in September. The |ffeCt of the judgment recently delivered by Mr. Justice Detmiston in the gorse case of Bremner v. Dunn, is (says the Christchurch Press) that if any owner of land permits any gorse or other noxious plant to grow on the road fronting his land, he must clear it off at his own expense on receiving notice from the local authority, whether such growth has spread from his own land or not. Miss Eva Shilington has been appointed matron of the Hokitika Hospital. The new bridge T>ver the Kangitikei lliver at Bulls, which is costing something over £17,000, is nearing completion, only the two end trusses having now to be erected. It U expected (says a local paper) that the structure will b» opened with great* official pomp just prior to the general election. Durum the recent snow storms in the ».airoa. district, drifts to a depth of bit were piled up in some places on the road. At tho Farmers' Union Provincial Conference at Stratford, a motion wa» brought forward "That the number of condidates of the Houso of Representatives be not inore'asodj" but it was not seconded, on the ground that ib would have no effect.

The question of the establishment of a park in the west end of New Plymouth is being strongly supported. A peculiar failing ou the part of a schoolboy was mentioned at the last meeting of tiie Marlborough Kducation Bogrd. It was explained that though he had failed more than once to pass a certain examination he was not by any means dull or unwilling. "Nervousness, perhaps?' No, it wasn t that, either; he had a lwbit of falling to sleep over his examination papers. At the next meeting of tbe Wanganui Chamber of Commerce Mr.- T. Hippie will move that the Chamber join jvith the Farmers' Union and ascertain if it were •possible to erect, at Castlccliff receiving stores whfcre quarterly sales of farmer? produce could be held. 'When sufficient butter ia exported from Wanganui, the question of making Wanganui a grading port will, it is stated, receive careful consideration by the Government.

It has been arranged that Signor Bragato, the Government expert in viticultU r re ' shaJl shortly make a trip up .-c Wanganui River with a view of reporting on the suitability of the land for vino growing. This; the Chairman of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce states, is likely to lead to important results, an it is well known to old settlers that in former years large quantities of excellent grapeß were grown up the river by the Maoris, and it is quite possible for a very important industry to be established there. lhe embalmed bodies of three Americans were sent from Auckland to America on the last outgoing 'Frisco mail boat. At the meeting of the Wanganui Chamx? r «°4 Comi »erca Mr. A. D. Willis, M.H.R., reported that there was a probability of a substantial sum being placed on this year s Estimates for the purpose of opening the Wangnnui River from Us present navigablo limit to Tangaraknu. Iho amount collected in Napier for the Veterans Home Fund amounts to £186 13s. The Napier* Borough Council has been recommended by its Public Works Committee to expend £70,000, principally on street improvements and drainage. It is proposed to upend £5000 on public baths, £3000 on a public park, und £2500 on a destructor.

lhe Hawkes Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association lias increased tho prize money for its coining show. Two boys.who won scholarships given by Mr. Norman Anderson for freehand and model drawing at the Port (Napier) State schools, each scored 188 marks out of a possible 200. For several days during tho past fortnight Gisborne has been cut off with, telegraph communication with the other parts of the colony owing to the wire having bean brought down by bad wen tlier. Pressure is bein^ brought upon ihf Government- to establish an alternate line we.l inland.

Ittie Napier Beautifying Association has decided lo plant some swamp oak along the Taradale-road to see whether it would grow as well with the roots in salt water as it does in Australia. The lady teacnen of the class for instruction in cutting out garments at Ihe Tvapier Borough school has lesigned because she alleges that some of her pupils have been very disobedient. A feature of the Coronation celebration at the Thames was tho perfomionce of a band of Maori female musicians belonging to the Piako district.

The Government has secured from the Maoris the preehold of a, part ol Te Aroha township known as Mordant own. The purchase will mean an ' annual loss to the Borough Council of £200, that amount huving been handed over to it after the natives had received a share of the rents. # In the opinion of the Napier Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the dehorning ol cuttle ia not cruel if done at the pronor lime.