INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6167, 24 January 1895, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(BY TELEGRAPH.) (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. January 23. The Governor and party leavo for the South by the Te Anau on Saturday night en route to the Southern Islands. One of the prisoners working at Point Halswell, a young man named Roderick M'Kenzie, escaped to-day, and is still at large. He was serving a term of two years' imprisonment for housebreaking at Napier. The Buteshire, from Sydney, has on board 26 head of cattle shipped at Rockhampton from the Blount Cornish station by the owners of the vessel (Messrs Turnbull, Martin, and Co.) to London as an experimental consignment. The bullocks, which average about IScwt., aro splendid specimens of their kind. The American Patent Aqency of Cincinatti, U.S.A., has ofiored 10,000 dollars for the sole rights of the ear-marking patent invented by Messrs Shearer and Hankins, of Palmerston North. It is understood the patentees will accept the offer. January 2-1. Mr E. M. Smith expects that the negotiations for the Ironsand Beach at New Plymouth will shortly be successful, in which case he intends to form a company with L 60,000 capital to purchase the Onehunga works and remove them to New Plymouth. The time for registration under the Conciliation Act is extended until April 2nd. Mr E. M. Smith and Mr Adlain, a dairy farmer, interviewed the Minister o£ Lands and presented a petition from 500 dairy farmers objecting to the Government grading of butter on the ground that arrangements were already made for salo at home which would bo prejudicially affected by marking it second-class. It was also complained that thoro wero no cool trucks for transport and no cool storage at New Plymouth. The Minister held out no hope of suspending grading, which was compulsory by the Act, but it was arranged that a deputation should meet the Government grader and inspect the shipment by the Takapuna, after which they will see the Minister again. The Ilauroto, which arrived from Sydney this morning, brought 163 passengers, of whom 118 landed here. DUNEDIN. January 23. A school boy named Arthur Jenkins, a son of James Jenkins, bootmakor, Green Island, while scrambling up tho rocks at the waterfalls iti Woodhaugh Valley this afternoon, in company with a brother, slipped and fell about 30 feet. When picked up life was extinct, tho bones of the face and the base of the skull being shattered to pieces. CHRISTCHURCH. January 23. At a meeting of the Hospital Board today some discussion took place with reference to the vote of LISOO put on tho supplementary estimates last session for the Board. It was stated that tho Board had not yet got it, and that tho time was approaching when it would lapse. Several members expressed the opinion that the local members were very lax in the matter. The chairman said that now it was urgent that the money should be got, as it was a serious matter that tho usefulness of the institution should bo impaired by the want of funds. Tho hospital was overcrowded, and many cases had to be sent out before they should be, in order to make room for more serioua ones. Reference was made to tho recent correspondence in the Star, in which a charge was made as to the management of the Hospital. After discussion, it was resolved to ask Dr Macgregor, Inspector of Hospitals, with the House Committee, to hold an inquiry. At the Charitable Aid Board meeting to-day the chairman stated that it had been found that an aged recipient of relief, lately deceased, who had been assisted by the Board for many years, had LIOO in her possession at the time of her death. A meeting of the Council of the Now Zealand Sheep Breeders' Association was held to-day to consider a request from the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association to re-introduce the inspection clause rescinded at the last meeting of tho Council. After discussion it was unanimously considered that inasmuch as applications for registration in respect of 200 flocks from all parts of the South Island had been sent in, funds could not be found to carry out the personal inspection of each flock. It was, however, resolved that entries from Southland, Otago, North Otago, South Canterbury, and North Canterbury should bo forwarded to the Agricultural and Pastoral Associations in those districts for inspection by local committees, who will be authorised to make all inquiries, _ and inspect (if necessary) the flocks submittod to them. The entries will also be open for inspection of breeders up to March. AUCKLAND. January 23. The Hon. Mr Cadman and party left Okoroire to day for Whakatane, en routo for the Uriwera Country. Willis Bros.' store and dwelling wore burned down at Papakura early this morning. The origin of the fire is unknown. They were insured in the Royal for L4OO. The property destroyed was valued at LISOO. The crew of the H.M.S. Wallaroo are said to be indignant at being ordered back to the Islands. Nearly 60 are suffering from ulcers and climatic debility through five months' stay in the Islands on salt junk, and sea work in bad weather, which led the captain to take the responsibility of coming to New Zealand, in order that the crew of 200 men might have a thorough change.