INTERPROVINCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3247, 3 July 1872, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

The Governor has been pheasant shooting in the Waikato. Two gold-bearing reefs have been discovered at Kattkati, Auckland. A thriving gymnastic club has been er,tablished at Charieaton.

The streets of Blenheim have been flooded five time» within six weeks htttdy. Tree-planting is being extensively carried on in Ilawke'jJ Bay this season. It in proposed i>* wind up the Wulling'tmi Brewery and .Distillery Company, Limited.

The imported birds are sjiid to have grc:itiy lessened the .plague of mos<{uitoeß in Auckland.

Jam find »auce, both-said to bo excellent, are being manufactured from, dock leaves in Auckland.

Carpenters and draymen are at a premium at Westport, to remove buildings threatened by the sea. Tiie establishment of a Convalescent Hospital in Groymonth ifl strongly advocated by the Grey River Argus. A company has oeen formed in Auckland to carry on the pearl fishery on the northern coast of Australia. Wellington ia now free of Mormons. The Nebraska on her last trip took away the few then remaining in the Province. The Diocesan Synod of Canterbury has decided to give monetary aid to young men studying for ordination. The new Lectionary is to be introduced into the Anglican Churches in Christchureh on the first Sunday in July. The late fall of snow on the West Coast ia stated to have been the heaviest known there since the goldfieids were opened. The Wairoa settlers are agitating for separation from Wellington, while their neighbours at, Patea want to be separated from Taranaki.

The CJreymouth Masons have received a dispensation for a Mark Masonry Lodge from Lord Leigh, Grand Master of Mark Masons of England and Wales.

The Thames- Guardian expresses an opinion that if a fow of the local bakers were branded, ai well as their loaves, it would not be a bad thing for the community, Dr Pearson, of Akaroa, Canterbury, was found dead and stark naked in the bush a few days ago. The Coroner's jury found that "he died from oxposure, while in a bUde of temporary insanity." Tho Provincial Council of Hawke's Bay was prorogued as it was opened— without a speech from the Stiperintendent —after a session of only twelve days' duration.

The Nelson Colonist calls the New Zealand University " an educational "''sm," and the expenditure of public me?'. ;y for its establishment "■ sinful waste."

The ranges at the back of Mount Rochfort, near Westport, are being thoroughly prospected for auriferous quartz reefs, which are believed to exist in that quarter.

A new Club is about to be established in Chrislchureh. It is proposed to make it a joint-stock concern, the amount of the shares to be £5 each.

Good prospects of alluvial gold are reported to have been found near Tauranga, «nd some promising (juaitz specimens in the Ohinemuri ranges. At Nelson, according to the Examiner, hundreds of tons of fruit rot in the settlers' gardens every autumn, and yet preserved fruit is largely imported. The total population of the Inangahna and Lyell districts is estimated by the Warden at 3750. The town of Reefton now contains between 200 and 300 buildings, besides tents. At a sale of New Zealand hemp in Auckland a few days ago, several tons of native-dressed hemp were sold at £10 a ton, while that dressed by machinery was sold at from .£23 10s to £31. per ton. A Working Man's Friendly Aid Society has been formed in Auckland. Its objects are stated to be to afford mutual assistance in sickness, and to form a burial fund. The subscription is 2s a month. The plant for the Wellington Water Works is expected to reach Wellington from England before the end of the present year, and by the end of February it is hoped the town will be supplied with water.

Speaking of Mr Halcombe, the New Zealand correspondent of the London Times, the Wellington Post says that no one wuuld f rjam of accusing him of being the possessor of an average amount of brains.

Steps are being taken to form a, freight company in Wellington to purchase four first- class iron ships for the trade between that port and England. One Hrm alone has promised to invest £5000 in the undertaking. Some saurian remains, described as "valuable and highly interesting," have been obtained in the interior of the Nelson Province by Mr Travers, who has forwarded them to Wellington. Tbe demand for New Zealand hemp ie reported by the Southern Cross to be increasing in Australia, One or two large shipments of. the fibre have lately been forwarded from Auckland to Sydney. Mr M'Lean nuWd a depuUtion that waited upon him at the Waikato the other day, that the Government intend to organise the Mil ilia- upon a new systeni, though they have not decided upon any definite plan for doing so. The Municipal Council of Auckland have resolved to endeavour to obtain from the General Assembly an Act authorising them to borrow £150,000, for the pursisting imniigratJon and seltleLnt on a basis similar to that of tho so--ciety represented by Colonel Feildmg, is being formed in Wellington. The required capital is forthcoming. The North Island is taking the shine out of the Middle Inland in the matter of blacking. The manufacture of that use- £~!* article is now being csiiTJed on in Wellington and Auckland, and a large l^t^^ 7t the leadership of Mr Browning, of the Survey Department, lias been sent out by the Westland County Government, to explore the liuad waters of the Hokitik.i and Kokotain river?, it rjehig.supposed that quartz reefs arts likely to be discovered there. .

The bridge over the llangitata Biver, Canterbury, is expected to be opened for traffic in a few weeks.

The police authorities in. Auckland are making efforts to reform some of the " City Arabs '* who come within the clutches of the law, by obtaining situations for them in the country. I£ is rightly thought that boys thus dealt with are more likely to turn over a new leaf than if sent to the Stockade.

At a meeting called a few days ago by Sfclie Mayor of Auckland, for the relief of (starving Persians, there were only fifteen persons present. Subscription lists were opened, and subscrt[ tions have since been more liberally given than might have been expected" from the small attendance at the meeting. The contract for the construction of the first eight miles of the railway from Wellington to the Htitt lias been signed. The price, including the estimated cost of the rails and rolling stock, is just within the Parliamentary limit of £5000 per mile. The- black swans introduced to this Colony from Australia seem to have multiplied very rapidly. The "Wairarapa( Wellington) correspondent of the Evening Post writes that no less than 200 of these birds were counted one day about'a fortnight ago upon the Wairatapa Lake. Chri-tchurch appears to be more prolific in religious publications than any other town in the Colony. _ It already has periodicals devoted to (he interests of the Episcopalians, Wesleyans, and Presbyterians, and now the Congregationalists in the city are also going to have their organ. It is to be edited by the Rev. W. J. Habens, will contain 10 pages, and be published at the price of 3d. In reporting the proceedings at the recent annual competition by the members of the Thames Rifle Association, the New Zealand Herald says :—" When the Indies' prize came on, it was only fitting that a lady should open the proceedings, and accordingly, ft rifle having been fixed, Miss Bnller was introduced by the secretary, and iired the weapon, honestly and fairly hitting the bull's eye." A Chatham Island correspondent writes to a contemporary :—" It may interest the curious to know that our extensive lagoon is margined on one side with smooth, hard crystalline limestone rocks, all of which are as copiously inscribed as the walls of Sennacherib's palace. The characters arc of the rudest description, in ba&to relievo, not unlike the carvings on old Runic monuments, and some are as sharply cut as if done but yesterday. The aboriginal natives are utterly ignorant of these characters, or for what purpose or by whom they were thus graven on these rocks, no traditions relative thereto having been handed down." An industrial exhibition in connection ■with the Thames Mechanics' Institute is to bo held in August next, and it is expected that exhibits will be received from the chief towns of New Zealand, as well as from the Australian Colonies and from California. From Otago, we learn that Mr A. J. Burns will send samples of the articles manufactured at the Moßgiel Woollen Factory, and the Otago Meat Preserving Company will send specimens of their meats. Among the-classes of exhibits which are "specially invited" to be sent are industries relating to mining, labour saving machinery, new inventions, flax, wool, cereals, leather, woods, and barks, <te. Referring to the Scandinavian emigrants, the Wairarapa (Wellington) Mercury says :—" We can recommend no trip more enjoyable than one to the new settlement above Mastcrton, where the immigrants are working. Englishmen may see many a worse example for them to follow in the way of road making, and Englishwomen will learn many useful lessons in the way of keeping their homes tidy, with every disadvantage to encounter, and many ' wrinkles* in the culinary art. Wo notice that almost every householder there has a spinning-wheel in her possession, and we expect that we shall shortly see some homo-spun stockings, &c, produced by them. The Tirnaru Herald has the following :

—" We have just heard of a story which is too good to keep out of print. The other day a telegraph clerk at one of the stations telegraphed to a brother clerk some hundred miles away, to the effect that his sweetheart was then in the office, and she had promised to marry him in a month. Now it so happened that the manager was in the operating room at the time, and, reading ufl' the message by ear, he sent back a reply which was short, sharp, and severe: * You are fined £1 for allowing strangers inside the oiUce ; turn ! ttie woman out.' Poor fellow ! the 'turn ! her out,' tacked on the money penalty, ■was adding insult c<> injury." Our Auckland correspondent writes :— "We are to have another Insurance Corn pany. It starts under most favourable I auspices, with a good Directory. The ' proposal is to have 25,000 shares of .£2O each, but it is not thought more than 10a need be called up. The shares are to be allotted in each Province, and the object is to secure a share list of .people likely to i bring business to the Company. Otherj wise the whole of the 25,000 shares would bo readily taken up >n Auckland. There lin a rash for the 0250 reserved, and the ! number applied for already is over 10,000. '■ For Otago an equal number ((J2l>o) is ; reserved. The New Zealand Company has now only 70 shareholders on its list, j and the shares (2500), on which only £2 ' 10s was paid up, have been fticreasod by | accumulated profits to £30. It has also : paid regularly 10 per cent, on its shares with these accumulated profits included. The prospects of the new Company are therefore looked on with great favour "