INTERPROVINCIAL. (PER NORTH OTAGO TIMSS SPECIAL WIRE.) AUCKLAND. May 20.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2201, 21 May 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL. ( PER NORTH OTAGO TIMSS SPECIAL WIRE.) AUCKLAND. May 20.

Only six application! have been received respecting exhibits for the Sydney Exhibition by the Royal Committee. The champion mile race for LlO ia fixed for the Queen's birthday at Ellerslie. The betting is in favor of O'Connor. The Belle Brandon, which hat arrived from the Line Islands, reports that Captain Slater, of the schooner Obeseya is recovering from the shot wounds inflicted by th© natives. When the Belle Brandon left the Marshall Group war had re-com-menced between the tribes. Two men had been killed, and two women wounded. There is a probability of an intertribal war at the Kingsmill group. The rain abated a great portion of today, but it is now clouding again, and there is likely to be a downpour during the night. Yesterday floods caused a good deal of damage on the Waikato railway line. Besides carrying away several bridges along the great south road, a portion of the tunnel on the railway line near Mercer has fallen in. The train had just passed through the tunnel when a great mass of the roof fell in with a crash. Several horse and cattle have been carried away, and a m*n in the Ararimu district is reported to bejdrowned, but the report u as yet unconfirmed. The Harbor Board deoided to-day to raise another loan of L 50,000.