TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4203, 4 May 1875, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

IKTER-PROVIKCIAL. [ritESS ACIENCV.] WKLLIXGTOX, Monday. Joseph Carter, many years tide-waiter in t'ic Customs, died suddenly to day on board tiie Sunbeam, and while iu the performance ■■£ his dailv duties. 1 " XELSOX, Monday. Thomas Smith, over seventy years' of a , t . pleaded guilty to an indecent assault ijVn hi* granddaughter, seven years of ago, •,nd was sentenced to live years' imprisonmUt' CHIUSTCHUIiCH, Monday. Tin- hands employed in the two principal jrachmc bi-ot manufactories are on strike for ni'i advance of 20 per cent, ill wages. George l'odsoii, of the Empire Hotel. Piiiiidni, i- said to have purchased a racing ~;:ir., and several mares ti.m Mr. Redwood. "'['he new Provincial Executive arc at issue with the I'-ar.l of Governor.- of the Canterbury College and Mu-cum. lespooting additions to'the latter. The old Executive s-.-inctioiivd the acceptance nl ihe tender for £1-1.000 jn-t before retiring from ollice, and the new Executive wish t ■ withdraw from the o-'Mraot by paving compensation to the extractors on tiiu ground of insufficient funds in the treasury, compared with the demand upon it. The Board of Governors arc expected t<> refuse to agree to withdraw fiotu the contract. Mr. B. Paikcrson, jun., a-ed -1,"., house surgeon of the Christchureh ~bo.-M.ital, died yesterday niornir..', from tvphoid fever. The hospital has Wen crowded'with tvpoid fever eases for months last, and Mr. I'aikorson v.as.Teatly overwork...!. Saturday la.-: IV. Black. Sheriff, procei.ied to l.vttclton and gave Mercer otlicial in:ii!iati..:. :'liat the sentence of the law imist lc e.irru.i out mi him -it ■■ight o'clock on i'n.iay morning r- Xt. On being visited by tii- !:"-.. Mi-.-srs. .'. Kiiowlea and J. Willis, vitl :i.-:.e'i to attend prayer- 1 , Mercer decliued t-> do so; ami on th.»e gentlemen leaving i_-a"l. lie rt-niaiked that anyone .-eeiiig miuisters leaving would think li'- was going to l.iavcii quick. Bishop Redwood attended mass at the Catholic Cathedral ye=-tcr.lav, and preached to a crowd, d congregation. A labouring man named Knight was lined •JIO for having two grey ducks in his ju-.-s.s.-ion the day before the opening of the thcoiii'.g season, and in default of payment v:i~ sentenced to two months'imprisonment, lie ha? been Hbeiated by Sir Cracroft Wilson paying the line. The Governor, in n.-p-use to the petition, bad just previously ti. "Ed a wnrrau: for the release of Knight. J.YTTKI.TOX, Monday. Ihi re v.as a heavy storm today of rain and hail, Hooding the Avon. TIMARU, Monday. A painful report is prevalent respectiu_: Hunt, the late head-master of ihe Tiuaru school, aud who was di owned in April. It appears he has another wife still living in Xew South Wales, ivhA claims the estate of the deceased fur li'-rs-lf and son. The police at Tiuiaru have li-.cn communicated with. The circi'.ru-it.-iuccs of decease."* drowning was a m< stery never satisfactory explained. Tho c.iiteuce of the iVrryi:iai; pointed to the suicide of Hunt, but though n..t beJi.ved at the time. i: is new thought to have been probable in vk'.v of sub'e.jUcnt revelations. Seve.ity applications for '.lie vacav.t post of head ma>tership of tiie school have been rectivv.l, and will bo considered to night. DUXEDLX, Monday. The Middle district school i> in danger of falling, through the heavy rain causing a slip iu the bank on which it is built. The scholars arc dismissed, and arrangements are nude, for a new school. M. Langstine, French Coisul aud woolbroker, committed suicide through taking strychnine. The body was found yesterday in the pa<lo.<f-k near his residence, deceased ■was iuvo'ive.l in pecuniary masters, but only to such trilling extent "that many of hia numerous friends would have assisted him. Ho was high up in the Masonic ctaft. A meeting of that body was called last night to take s-teps for his fuueraL It his been raiuiug. snowing, and thundering during the day. Tiie weather is intensely cold. The water supply is all right. The thirty-fourth session of the Provincial Council was opened to-day, by the Superintendent, at noon. About 20 members, and all the Executive, with the exception of Mr. Stout, Provincial Solicitor, were present. The Superintendent's address was very lengthy. It stated that 1-2,311 emigrants had arrived during the year. The great drawback ■sas a want of house-room. £12,000 had lx*n borrowed from the Colonial Government to erect cottages, repayable in four yeirs—the amount was in deposit in the Savings Bauk. The revenue for the year was £244,700, the traffic on the railway £57,000, compared with £35,000 last year. The Clutha line will be opened in July, on the completion of the Chain Hill Tunnel. He considered the general question of education would be come inoperative. £21,000 had been spent on school buildings during the past year. He hailed with very great pleasure the construction of branch railways by public enterprise, with private capital. He alluded to Mr. C'onyer's retirement as manager of the railway, and stated that to his exertions the improvement in the traffic receipts is mainly due. He paid a tribute of respect to the late Mr. Auld, agent for the province. He stated that the province lost a valuable public servant. Hβ intimated that a school •f mints would he established. The .Superintendent concluded by alluding to the proposed abolition of the provinces. He admitted that a change in the present Constitution was necessary, but he was altogether opposed to the moiliut opnrandi proposed. He instanced that Otago and Canterbury contributed more than half the consolidated revenue of the entire colony, ■»nd averred by abolition thtir resources would !>e still more drawn from. He expressed himself favourable to unity of colony, but submitted that the surest course to obtain that end would be by every province being dependent on itself, and contributing a fair share toward the support of a Federal Government at Wellington, and also a fair share of the debt already incurred by the colony. By consistently pursuing this course, the province would draw together, as in the case of Otago and Southland, and so the unity aimed at would eventually be brought about, and get the financial separation of the North and South practically accomplished.

In the Provincial Council, the Speaker stated that as it was held by some to bo incompatible with his holding the oliice of Speaker that he bhoultl be at the same time Secretary to the liarbour Board and ac vjjicio member of that body, he intended to scud in his resignation to the Government this evening. The Council would thus have an early fcpitirtunity of expressing its opinion on the matter. At au inquest on the body of Jules Lan-st-igne, a verdict of "temporary insanity" was returned.