Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 137, 3 October 1896, Page 4

Interprovincial News.

The Manchester delegates have visited Rotorua by special train. They left Rotorua yesterday afternoon by special train for Auckland, and hold a meeting to-day with the Chamber of Commerce. The Manchester delegates telegraphed to the Egmont Settler (Stratford) respecting the alteration in their arrangements :—" We emphatically stale that responsibility rests entirely with us and no one else. The Government have been most hospitable and generous in their treatment of us, and have even gone out of their way to carry out arrangements we desired to make." A boy named Edward Dal ton, son of Dalton, pork butcher, and who was employed as messenger at the Government- " Printing Oflice, while sliding down a bannister in the Treasury buildings at Wellington, fell and dropped to the basement, a distance of 20 feet. His nose and left wrist were smashed and a hole knocked in above the eyebrows. He was taken to the hospital and died later cn. Mr M'Ewan has resigned his position as Chief Dairy Expert, and has left for America. In a letter to the Premier the Agent-General calls attention to the following paragraph in the report of Mr Thomas P>orthwick, on the condition of frozen meat in vessels : " From the last report the numbers of condemned and damaged carcases have been enormous, and this has had a very bad effect on the lamb trade, as lambs have to be put on the market as quickly as possible. Only a few Canterbury sheep are really good. Nothing affects the colonists' interest as much as this, and shipowners must either adopt some means to prevent it or some vessels with bad records will have difficulty in getting cargoes before long." At the Dunedin Supreme Court the summons for the removal of Mr Vigers from the liquadatorship of the Colonial Bank was ordered to stand over; also the summons for fixing dates for the public examination of the directors and officers of the institution, the reason being that the Judge is leaving for Wellington next Thursday, but he intimated he would take the latter application at Wellington if Mr Young, representing the moving shareholders, could arrange a day.