INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2054, 8 January 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[United Press A3soe ation. ] Auckland, Jan 7. Major Walms'ey. immuring direct r of the New Zealand Stud Company, Laves shortly for England, chiefly for the purpose of purchasing a stud horse to take the place of Musket. One of the local Artillery Corps will ga into barracks at Fort Cantley for a fortnight’s garrison duty and gurmory ex*rcise. It is stated that driving the piles for the foundation of Firth’s Milton the reclaimed land near the Railway Station is causing the reclamation wad and buttrpssf s to give way. The twenty-first annual session of the Orange Grand Lodge *vas held last night at the Protestant Hall, Newton. Tile Rev, A.Cr. Brooke was rer.eieetpt) Grand .Master of the next Grand Lodge meeting lixerl for April at Whangarei. A deputation waited on the Minister of Justice to-day urging the construction of the Western loop line as a means of relieving the congested Railway fra Hie on the single line out of Auckland. MrTole promised to lay the views of the deputation before the Minister of Works. Wellington, January 7. Sur ral shipments of Apples .rotn Hobart and Melbourne per Wairarapa were siezc.l by the Customs authorities to day, in .onsequenoe of tt?c presence of odlin moth amongst t hem Hokitika, Jan 7 Tb? Ba nk of New Zealand monthly nurchas-s, including Chris’mas g Id, amounted to 1011 ounces, allied, at Lift,(l ft J ECU LIAR LIBEL ACTION. Auckland, Jan, 7. A writ for £SOO damages lias been issued by C. Storey. Postmaster at Whangarei, against N. Thomson, auctioneer, of the same place, for libel, the cause of a tion being contained in a communieition made hy Th ir.son 'the Government, charging Storey, ns a telegrapl ist, with certain misdemeanours. A Government inquiry was held touching the charges, and Storey was requitted of them by the Deportment. A WELL-BESTOWED GIFT. Wellington, Jan. 7. Mr J. Saunders, contractor, Wellington, has given £10l) towards the building fund of the Magdalen Asylum, Christchurch. A LIBEL ACTION. Dunedin, Jan 7. It is rumoured that Sir G. Whitmore is bringing a libel action against Paddy Murphy’s Annual, for a rquib on the Oamaru Volunteer Review. THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE. CmusTCHURCH, Jan 7. The session of the Educational Institute concluded to-day. It was decided to hold the next annual meeting at Nelson, in January, ISSS. The report of the committee on the Standard Syllabus, as amended by the Council, was referred to the Institute, and will be brought forward next year. The principal clauses of the roport stated that the number of compulsory subjects included in the Syllabus is excessive, and that compulsory subjects for individual examination and individual |>*.««**s he restricted to reading, incite ie;.’ «;. plain* tion, spoPiog, and cl illation, v rting, arithmetic and compo-i----tim . | THE HOMESTEAD SYSTEM. Dunedin, Jrn 7. j Toe first i J 'ck o l ' hod under the llomestfiid System, eonlvining about I 3,tit'll acres, Ims -11 been taken up, with . the exception rf 90 :>cr r s on the top of n j nil’, light secured sthc’ion unopposed. I Six allotments were b-< lote.l for, and ■ eight r.f the unsuens fid applicants took 1 up other areas. The Board decided do to nemo applicators frnn women for j thorns. Ives and children vhere the lilts- ! bands were alive. ; \ milOV.fi COLIISION BETWEEN I ' "HE S.M. OMAVEKK AND A DREDGE ; Dunedin, Jan. o. j A rail.ct serious collision occurred y<*s- I

t? rday eveuiog between the steam r Omapete and the Harbour Boaro’s big dredge. The Omaper<. was on her way to Dunedin, arid when iu the i arrow channel be'w on the quarantine islands shpcmieinfoc lhsiou uit't 11i-» dredge. 'The Omttpero r>c ive’d cnnsideiabe tl .mage to her h w, tie pur' bnv be inn pierced riV t t r . gli ii on" pine and th*re a e de ]> indentations in others. The Omapete nut hunk to Fort Cln-lmors w here sh am i be' g k pi tip in case of h.r spiing’nv a teik. 'The dre ,, ' , c w.= more scricu ly dam-gel, and ah w - b*'" ght to anchor under <)t« • r»*. ti Foiiil w'l.-re she ur.diialv sank, and a the la ist adviees appea el li'-ey t. he I. fa v s tbtner cd. 0 lie dr idc »«* on h. r " a to sea w, Ii a f ill loa*’ <-f s til. Her a, er deel nes to m k - any stiteo e u January 7. A pi.lt u nary e quiry "in hel I by tin Ooleuirof Gnstonis m o ilie cir.iumstarices of ihe co' id. n between 'he Omnjiere and the dredge I u it was not open to the Fresp, The d>elge si 1 ie? on ihe clink, but as r.h • wear I c is fin - it is expected she w.Il in’ co* olf A gal.- of wi d however, w.,jil 1 pr.ibtbly ha I i» he ha k hoi> g broken ;.s the p see -lie is e'ting on i-o ■ly a hmk of 'and.