INTERPROVINCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1039, 31 October 1889, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Electric Telegkaph.) BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. DUNEDIJT, Oct. 31. Lady Onslow and family are expected to arrive here.'by"the Hinemoa this morning. She will visit the district in. a day or two. The first gold from Nenthorn has arrived in town, and is on view in Messrs 'Youngs' (jewellers) window. The cake weighs 4530z5., and comprises gold from the Croesus mine and alluvial workings in the neighbourhood. T*he body of an apparently newly born female child was found yesterday afternoon lying in a box in the Catholic portion of the Southern cemetery. It was found by a couple of boys going to school. No clue has yet been obtained as .to the parents of the child. Numbers of whales of the hump back species have been seen disporting themselves round Stewart's Island. The French war-ship Saone (Captain Bigant) arrived at Wellington from Noumea. She will be present at the opening of the Exhibition. The report presented at the annual meeting of the Ivaiapoi Woollen Factory showed that £2250 had been written off for depreciation of property. A dividend of seven per cent, was announced. The Hon. Mr. Ballance addressed a public meeting at Napier. His speech was chiefly a review of the last session of Parliament, but towards the close he advocated a progressive land tax, ab sentees to pay double taxation. He stated that the returns of land settlement furnished by Ministers had been manipulated and were fallacious. He also asserted that it had been divulged to him privately to the effect that Ministers had appointed the Railway Commissioners to do what they dare not do themselves—reduce the rate of wages all over the colony—in the interest of the landed classes. A deputation representing the Cooperative Land and Settlement Company waited on the Hon. T. Fergus yesterday. Sir It. Stout explained that the Co-operative Land Settlement Co. had been formed for the purpose of acquiiing a block of from 5000 to 10,000 acres of bush land and sub letting it for purposes of settlement in blocks of from 50 to 200 acres to shareholders of the company. They were willing to pay 20s per acre to the Government for the land, and wanted to take it up on perpetual (ease.

Shareholders could not tate : iess than 50 acres nor more thaii 200 aerus aud. I he to have a share i a the company for every acre he held/ The idea of the company was iiot td make money out of it. but to singly experiment as to gutting land settled"