INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 225, 22 March 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, This Pay. The proposal to erect a Beuevolont Institution, or Home for indigent persons, in Wellington, has now assumed definite shape. A gentleman who does not wish liis name disclosed, lias o fibred a donation of .£IOOO. Thin, with the Government subsidy of iUOOO, will make up the sum noce&sary for erection of a suitable building, An effort will be made to. collect another .£IOOO by subscription, tho Mayor promising to subscribe .£IOO, provided nine others do the same. Tho matter will be further considered at next week's sitting of tho Benevolent Institution. AUCKLAND, This Pay. Three hundred claims havo been lodged with tin- secretary of tho Royul Commission on Volunteers aud military laud claims. CITRISTCIIURCH, This Pay. Mr. Penfold has been appointed secretary uf the Canterbury Jockey Club. The trustees of St. haul's Presbyterian Church have been proceeded against for allowing a public performance in the building. Tho Mataura's freezing chamber waR opened yesterday aud eveiy thing was found in splendid order. A luncheon was given on board of the vessel of provisions brought out in tho chamber, including grouse, partridge, and salmon. HOKITIKA, This Pay. Another claim was bottomed on the gold field, yesterday afternoon, at the Woodstock Hush, with similar prospects to that obtained by the prospectors. Two more claims anticipated to be bottomed to-morrow. Twenty to thirty parties are now sinking, aud numbers are shepherding the ir ground. NAPIER, This Pay. P. J. Murtagh, known in raciug circles, was arrested yesterday, while going on board a steamer for Auckland, on charge of larceny as a bailee. Murtngh had given a bill of sale over his race-horses, aud had sold some by auction, retaining the money. Strong protests are being made ag&mst

traffic cpu-od by tho Union Company's boats calling on Sundays.

PUNEPIN, This Pay.

The Ef v. Mr. Green with his two bwiss guides, and accompanied by Mr. Hodgkins, solicitor, of Dunedin, made an attempt to ascend Mount Earflslaw, at the head of Lako "Wakatipn, jeslerday, but the wenthex" was extremely bad, aud they weio unable to get up more than 4000 feet. Mr. Green, however, believes there will be no great difficulty in reaching the summit, but that is not to be accomplished by amateurs. He admires the Lake scenery, and lias no doubt that members of the Alpine Club will visit the Lakes next year.