INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 310, 22 February 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Por Press Association. Duxrnix, Feb 21. The Gave;.invent have decided to withdraw from sale tho Knrow runs at present, r.-gnrdutg the throwing open for settlement of which a deputation of intending settlors waited on tho AT lister of L'.uid.s'wh’le at Oamavu. Tho case of Snrgood, Son and Ewcn against the Dunedin Corporation, a cla’m iPr injury caused by flood water, which

was heard last year and decided against Sargoods, is to to taken to tho Privy Council, in tho ndv'oo of a Melbourne solicitor.

Tho enquiry into tho condition of the Sen cl iff Asylum was continued to-day. Mr Lawson, tho architect, applied to be a’V.vcd counsel. It was decided to allow li.ks poNiior (o be present to consult I 'm but not to lake an active part, iu the tmqw Laws-iii, who is arclihect of tho bn”ding, the i opened his case, and said ho would ca 1 ! witnesses to prove that the allegations of tho Public Works Department as to his being responsible wore unfair and unfounded. WiiM.ixc.xoxr, Fob 22. It, is probable that detectives stationed in towns like Wanganui, Oamnru and Tinviru will be removed to the chief centres shortly. At tho present time several constables in the largo cities are doing detective work-, and b i< proposed to make them return to street duty, so as to make room h r detectives transferred from smaller towns.

Government have engaged Mr Steely, of the linn Siecly and U-'., surveyors and commission agents, Minton’, to instruct the settlors of Rami it ib.-i in the matter of erin?mating the Hessian Fly pest. A deep-furrow plough, ordered to be sent to Eangitikoi from tho Agricultural College, Lincoln, is now hi Marten, and S'ocly has received instructions to lose no time in commencing operations on the pest, which will consist of burning stubble and ploughing it in deeply- Tho order given to make two more ploughs bus been countermanded, as it has been ascertained that two implements of the kind are on board the ship Pleiades, now GO days out, and can be purchased on arrival. The election of tho Licensing Committee for Lain 1 ..(0n Ward t ook place to-day, there being nine candidates. All those on tho publicans’ ticket were returned, v’-c, C. E. Welles ton 128, A. Young 118, K. Hayes 108, W. Tinncy 99, E. 11. Goldsmith 78. Total, 531 votes. Tiie Miui-ter of Lands has received a telegram from tho Chief Surveyor at Auckland, staling that two men have been arrested on su.-picinn of hav’ng set fire to tho Pnhipuhi Forest, with the object of gettEg at the kauri gum more readily.