INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7331, 4 October 1898, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(by telegraph.) (PER PEEKS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. October 4. The Cricket Association has decided to guarantee LSO towards sending a New Zealand team to Australia, provided that a thoroughly representative eleven ia obtained. The Governor and Countess and Lord Northland will leave on November 26 for Auckland, to open the Exhibition. They will travel by Napier and Rotorua, and will visit Mercer on the occasion of the anoual regatta. This morning's cable re the New Zealand Shipping Company has been mutilated in transmission. The amount at credit (profit and loss) is L 31.000, out of which a dividend of 4 per cent, will be paid. The balance of LBOOO will be carried forward. A deputation from the King Country natives interviewed the Premier and Mr Carroll respecting Kaihau's Maori Council Constitution Bill. Mr Seddon told them that it contained suggestions of an important nature acceptable to the Government, but there were many powers in it which could not be granted by Parliament. He would be very glad to meeb Mahutu and discuss matters with him, and hoped that he would come as soon as possible. A deputation of anglers waited on ihe Minister for Railways this evening, and asked that Saturday till Monday return tickets be available from Friday evening till Monday morning, that anglers be allowed to travel return at single rates, and that excursion tickets be available to anglers for th« afternoon preceding a holi day. The Minister, in reply, said he had attempted, ia making the concessions to keep clear of any particular class, and, looking at the matter off-hand, he saw no reason why he should make concessions to anglers that he would not make to anyone else. He pointed out that by the recent concessions parties of 12 bad reductions in fares made. He the deputation to put their requests in writing, and he would, after considering them, inform them which of their requests he was prepa; , .1 to agree to. Mr Diniels has wired the Union Company to-day that a heavy surf on the beach prevents any attempt to patch the holes in the Mapourika. They have wire hawsers from the bow and stern for the protection of the ship from a southerly sea. The engine-room bulkheads are now tight, and the vessel came astern several feet last night. They hope to shift her further aft this tide. The water is being removed from the engine-room in the meantime. A considerable S. W. sea last night did not affect the ship. All the gear is now on the beach ready for operations.

DUNEDIN. October 3. At a largely-attended meeting of members of Trinity Wesleyan Church Quarter Board, the Rav. C. H. Garland, of New Plymouth, was unanimously invited as minister for 1899. October 4. The brass moulders' dispute has been adjocrned sine die. The employers are anxious that the award should ran on parallel lines to that given in Cbristchurch. In July, when the dispute was last before the Court, the employers were willing t> concede all the points save one demanded by the men. The whole dispute will now be re-np<>ned. The Danedin Presbytery adopted a resolution calling on members of the Church to abstain from using Sunday trams. .. CHRISTCHURCH. October 4. At a Committee meeting of the Amateur Athletic Clab Dr Jennings made a spirited appeal to members to preserve amateurism in sport so far as athletics were concerned. It would be a standing disgrace if the club were the first to hold out a hand of welcome to cash cycling, which had throttled amateur cycling in all parts. A resolution was passed striking ont all cycling events at the spring meeting. In consequence of the complaint of some of the crew of the ship Opawa the Marine Department has ordered an inspection of the rigging, which took place yesterday, with the result that the rigging was found all right and the men had to admit that they had been mistaken. The complaint apppears to have been utterly frivolous and unwarranted. The ship Hermione arrived at Lyttelton yesterday after a passage of 116 days During the latter part of the voyage she met furious gales the ship being constantly flooded with heavy seas.

AUCKLAND. Ootober 3. At the Police Court, before Mr Brabant, S.M., James H. Hickross was charged with selling beer to Charles Strachan at Kawau on May 14 withouthaving a license, and was also charged with selling whisky on June 18 to Kate Strachan without having a license. Defendant was convicted and fined 20j in each case, and costs (LlO 19s). Colonel Dillingham, United Stateß consul in Auckland, who holds his military rank by virtue of his consular capacity, paid an official visit to H.M.S. Tauranga to day. He was conveyed on board by the ship's steam launch by direction of Captain Browne, and was very courteously and heartily received by Captain Browne and his officers. On leaving the Tauranga a salute of seven guns was fired in honor of the consul-To-night a man was found on a vacant allotment in Howe street, Newton, with an empty phial of laudanum alongside him. When fcund by the police he expressed regret that the poison had not done its work as he was tired of life and the world. He declined to give any Information further than giving his name, first as Frank and then John M'Arthur. He stated thab he was related to the M'Arthurs. Nothing is known as to where he lived. People who claim to known him stated that he was formerly in Feilding and was last at Paeros, and that he was a draper. He is at present in the hospital, where they are endeavoring to keep him awake. The balance-sheet of the South British Insurance Company for the year ended 31st August shows a profit in the revenue account of L 5955, which, added to the amount brought forward from last year, leaves Ll6 582 at the credit of the profit and loss account. Out of this an interim dividend was paid in April of Is 61 per share, and the payment of a further-2s per share is nowrecommended, leaving to m earned forward L4BSI.

HAWERA. October 3. There was farther troable by the Natives ab Pihama on Saturday. Mr Allen, who leases a section of land from the Public Trustee, fonnd the cattle of the Natives trespassing on his land. He asked the Natives to remove them, but they refused. Mr Allen then impounded the cattle, bub the Natives prevented him from placing his own cattle on the land, and released the impounded cattle, and again placed them on Mr Allen's land, driving Mr Allen's cattle away. Mr Allen again impounded the cattle, bnt again they were released, and as a persistent attempt was made to place them on the section, three men were arrested and taken to New Plymouth. HOKITIKA. October 4. Joseph Barrett, an old man, single, a resident at Koiterangi, suicided yesterday afternoon by blowing his head to pieces with a dynamite cartridge, which he bad apparently placed in his mouth. An inquest will be helu this afternoon. THAMES. October 4. Elizabeth Cook was brought up on remand yesterday afternoon on a charge of the murder of her Infant. Magistrate Bash held that the evidence was nob strong enough to commit aocused, and discharged her. j