INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8292, 22 September 1903, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

■ * Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. September 21. A deputation from the (Jhr'istchurch Council of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals waited on the Premier to-day, and asked for a Government subsidy for carrying on the work. The Premier, while expressing sympathy with the work carried out by such societies, thought local bodies should provide the funds, and expressed the opinion that the police should do more to assist. He promised to place the matter before the Cabinet.

An English company has decided to start trawling operations on a large scale in New Zealand waters. The company's representative, who arrived from London by the Gothic, states that its operations will embrace the whole of the deep-sea fishing area, of the New Zealand coast. It is proposed to employ ten trawlers, and these will be built in, the colony if shipbuilders will undertake to produce boats' in accordance with the Grimsby' specifications. ■Helen Gaskin, aged eight, died in the hospital to-night from, bums caused by her clothes catching fire while she was playing near am open fireplace. DUNEDIN. September 21. At the inquest on Thomas Hopewell, pelt classer, a verdict was returned that deceased was accidentally run over by a railway train, no blame being attachable to anyone. The delegates attending the conference of the Federated Builders' and Contractors' Association arrived this evening. The principal centres from Auckland to Invercargill are represented. CHRISTCHURCH. September 21. Judge Denniston reserved judgment in the Ashburton Club case. The Crown abandoned the plea that the revocation of the charter followed on the introduction of nolicense, and relied on the alleged impropriety of the Club eighteen months ago in. selling liquor to members outside the Club. The City Council this evening made considerable progress in regard to the water supply scheme, lately submitted to it. The proposal is to pump water into the reservoir on the Port Hills, and have a system, of retriculation throughout the- city. The estimated cost is £150:000, and the estimated I working expenses are £IO,OOO. The Council has not yet finished with the scheme of rating, and other matters have to be dealt with. The. secretary of the Amateur Athletic -Association of England has written to the Council of tlie New Zealand Association that he is very doubtful whether a team can be raised to visit the colony. The matter is to be placed before the English Committee. BLENHEIM. September 21. The Marlborough Poultry Association decided to-night to hold an egg-laying competition on the lines of the recent Hawkesbury competition in New South Wales, to be open to New Zealand, Australia, England, and America. The competition is confined to pens of six fowls each, and is to extend over one year. It was decided to expend £IOOO in carrying out the scheme. This is the first project of the kind in. the colony, and a subsidy is to be asked for it from, the Government. WANGANUI. September 21. The Supreme Court, opened tiiis morning before the Chief Justice. James Douglas was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for forgery, and a number were remanded for sentence. INVERCARGILL. September 21. The other day W. Kirknes6 found a bottle on the beach at Otara, Fortrose, containing scraps of a Wellington paper wrapped round a leaf of a pocket diary foT 1901, on which was written in pencil: "To Father Boyne, Jackson's Bay. Open Bay Island, Tuesday; 4th June.—Here since Sunday. All well. Very tired of long delay. Trust that Providence, will have mercy on us. Bishop Grimes, Dean Foley, Pere Sepet-y, and Malone. Full of hope in the Lord." The finder has doubt of the authenticity of the writing, but Bishop Grimes and party, visiting the western side of the diocese about that time, were ■a long time unheard from, and suffered inconvenience ; indeed the other day his reverence, writing to West-land, said never again would he run the risks 'then experienced. The scraps of papers have reference to General Colville's- failure, in the Cape campaign, and the purchase of remounts for South Africa, so that all the documents are in order chronologically. -The bottle finder says it smelt strongly of vinegar, and the surface was much worn by rolling on the sand. Open Bay Island is a few miles north of Jackson's Bay. TIMARU. September 21. Mr Charles Bowker, a resident of Timaru for 38 years, made a free gift 1 to the residents to-day of a band rotunda and twelve garden seats placed on the market reserve, which is near the centre of the borough. He wishes the gift to mark his 40 years in the colony. The Mayor thanked Mr Bowker for his generous gift, which the residents greatly appreciate.