Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 132, 28 September 1896, Page 3

Interprovincial News.

The report which has been drawn up by the electric lighting committee of the Auckland City Council expresses the opinion that the electrical syndicate is not carrying out its electric lighting contract in a manner satisfactory to the city, there having been frequent complaints in regard to the quality of the light, and unexplainable and unjustifiable delay in the erection of lamps ordered. For some time past a police search party has been looking for a boy named Charles Cook, who was missed from a station near Waikari, and is supposed to have been lost in the rough hill country. The party returned to Waikari on Friday, having found no traces of the boy. At the annual horse parade of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association the entries numbered 56. The attendance was small and the sale a dull affair. Mr D. Illingworth's Clydesdale stallion C'airnfield was sold to Mr John Gemmell, Dunsandle, at lOOgs, and the Hon. M. Holme's three-years-old Clydesdales colt Lockslev, after being passed at auction at 125gs, was sold to Mr F. Gimn, Nelson for llOgs. On Tuesday afternoon about 1 o'clock two young men named Edward Cliffor, son of Thomas Clifford, Mud Island, and John Stewart, jun., of Eli Bay, near Hopai, settler, capsized in a yacht at Flea Bay, Port Richmond Bay, on Harris Bros', run, Pelorous Sound. They had gone from Mud Island to Ketu Bay for the mail, and were returning when the accident occurred. The yacht was ourigged, carried a ton of ballast, and immediately sank, both occupants being drowned. Diligent search has been made by all the settlers in the district, but no trace of the bodies found. Captain Wood, of the Elsie, brought up the news, which has been confirmed by Irvine Mills, who assisted in the search. Clifford was unmarried, but Stewart leaves a wife and two young children. The wind was blowing very hard, and the place is notoriously squally. The accident is supposed to have happened in luffing the yacht into the bay, which is the usual practice, so as to make a clear run to the island. The Manchester Co-operative delegates were entertained at a banquet by the Government in Bellamy's on Saturday night, which was of a private nature. The Minister of Lands presided, and Captain Russell occupied the vice-chair. The Premier and several members of Parliament were present, besides the Mayor and a number of leading citizens. The delegates expressed thanks for the and attention received on all

t hands from the Government, and the w great satisfaction at all they had seen. They declared their intention to recommend that where possible foreign ftwulA should be diverted to their kith and fci" in the colonies. The delegate left for Taranaki this morning. A of 431 ounces, from 282 tons Stone, for 21 days' crushing, was obtained from the Morning Star reef, Preservation Inlet. The value is £1776. TJw total for ten months' crashing is £B6OO. The yield hajs been steadily increasing from 19dwt to over an ounce and half. ' Hall the nuns is VwnodmlirrtroMgilL