INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 29 May 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, May 2S. Mr Lilly white intimates that on their return the Englishmen will play a combined North Island mutch at Auckland, and a combined South Island match at Dunedin Invercargill, May 28. A meeting of settlers at Thornbury have decided to ask the Government to forthwith stop the importation of stoats, ferrets and weasels, or other such vermin, which are considered detrimental to settlement and ineffectual in eradicating rabbits. The Chief Inspector has invited applications from the unemployed who wish to obtain work at road making in localities about thirty miles from town. Seventytwo men applied, of whom sixty-two are married, with families ranging from one to ten children. The wages are 4s 6d for married, and 3s 6d for single men. Wellington, May 28.

Captain Cromarty, of the Union Company’s service, left for Sydney to-day, having received a shore appointment there in connection with the Company. A number of non-commissioned officers of the Torpedo Corps, who have been in Wellington for training purposes, left for Auoklaud to-day. The Torpedo Corps is at present engaged here in laying down submarine mines in the harbor.

Timaru, May 28. At the R.M. Court, this morning, a respectable settler was summoned for illegally cutting and removing small timber from Crown land without license. He had seen another person carting wood from the same place, and he supposed tho regulations forbidding it had been withdrawn or released. Tne Crown Lands Ranger estimated the value of the timber that was taken at L2 os. Defendant was ordered to pay the value of the wood, and costs amounting to £ll 6s. At a meeting of the Timaru Steamship Company to-night it was resolved to wind up the Company having sold their only steamer the Collier in Timaru.