Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 119, 12 September 1896, Page 2

Interprovincial News.

The tramway proprietors at Wellington have offered to dispose of their plant and rights to the Corporation for £50,000. At Dunedin a boy named Ingram, eight years old, was sent for groceries on Wednesday. He never returned, and no trace of him has been found. The employees of the Auckland Sugar Refining Company have expressed their appreciation of the Premier in placing their company m the Private benefit Societies J /ill. J'h»* Auckland j\ nights of Labor have congratulate d the Premier on the parage t ! Lie P.u Ue nelit boejetu > Pull, rUj>tiia\t e-pre-sed th« hope that, it will successfully pass the Council. Mr Charles Marter, who leaves the New Zealand Times staff to-day, to take a position on the Hawke's Bay Herald, was yesterday presented with a handsome souvenir by his confreres on the Post. A married woman named Lizzie Lennard, residing with her husband at the National Boarding-house, Wellington, had words with him last night and went away and cut her throat with a razor. She is now in the hospital, but the wound is not likely to prove fatal. At the annual meeting of the Progressive Liberal Association, Christchurch, resolutions were carried urging the Government, in view of the proposed expenditure of £250,000 on railways, to pass a Betterment Bill this session, and calling upon the Government to secure a greater share of the colony's mineral (gold) wealth for the benefit of the people.

At the luncheon on the s.s. Fifeshire at Port Chalmers yesterday Mr W. G. Neill, American Consul, on behalf of Captain Sterling, of the Patrician, presented Captain Wilson and Mr Ross, chief officer of the Fifeshire, with gold lockets suitably inscribed as a slight recognition of the brave service rendered in rescuing the crew of the Patrician. Martin, quartermaster, and Mowatt, boatswain, who comprised the crew of the boat, were presented with gold medals and £5 which had been subscribed at the Duneain Amateur Boating Club's smoke concert. A number of members of the House of Representatives waited on the Minister of Defence yesterday evening with the request that the subsidy made in the past to the New Zealand Rifle Association should be continued this year. Mr M'Nab introduced the deputation. The Minister in reply said no provision had been made to subsidise the approaching meeting of the association, the Js4so on the Estimates this year being to cover a deficiency on the Omaru meeting. His own feeling was, and he would move in that direction pending the recommendation of the commandant of the forces, that a sum should be placed on the supplementary Estimates as heretofore, and he would bring the matter before his colleagues. With regard to rifle clubs he thought if they were formed in centres where they could form volunteer corps they would be an evil, but where there was no volunteers corps, rifle corps might fairly be encouraged. As an old volunteer his sympathies wore entirely with the men who gave their time gratuitously and made very considerable sacrifices to render themselves efficient as volunteers, both in drilling and shooting, and his intention was to put before his colleagues the had indicated. There were already a sum of £I2OO on the estimates for the carriage of volunteers, and judging from past years' experience it would not be possible to grant passes for shooting competitions amongst volunteers unless they increased that amount. He was not at all inclined to be parsimonious in granting passes to volunteers when it was a matter of attending bona shooting competitions. In conclusion, the Minister said he would do as he had indicated, and it remained with members to carry the. proposal iato effect.