INTERPROVINCIAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5669, 16 January 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

[Pku Press Association. j WELLINGTON, To-day. Hearn, who is to row Stephensou for the Championship of the Colony, has resigned his membership of the. Wellington Rowing Club, it being incompatible with his resumption of professional rowing to remain a member of an amateur rowing club. The approximate revenue returns for the last quarter show: - Receipts, including balances at the beginning of the quarter and L 305,000 worth of deficiency bills, L 1,702,000, 702,000 ; expenditure with per manent appropriations, L 470,000. The balance is made up of cash in tho public account L302,G00 and L 190,000 of advances. The profit for the railways for the quarter was about LBI.OOO. The Customs returned net L 356,000, stamps L 135,000, property tax L 206.000. On the land fund account there was a loss of L 42,000, the sale 3 having only amounted to Lll,doo. On public works the actual expenditure during the quarter was just overLloo,ooo. There is now L 1,617,000 to the credit of the public works fund, this sum being made up of cash L 268.890, advancesL4s2,46B, investments L 896.300. AUCKLAND, To-day. The Knights of Labor resolved at a meeting last night to endeavor to obtain the closing of shops in Auckland at 6 p.m. on all evenings of the week except Saturdays, when they should close at 9 p.m., and a committee, including three clergymen, was appointed to attain that object. An important discovery is reported from Dargaville. Yesterday during the sinking of an artesian well in the centre of the town a dark blue and green cement-like stuff, containing black sand, was found at a depth of 48ft from the surface. Some bright specks were seen, and when the stuff was examined under a magnifying glass it was seen to contain what appeared to be fine free gold. A small parcel of the stuff, about 31bs, was panned off, and a residium of black sand and floury gold was obtained. The stratum at present known to contain gold is only about 12 inches through, and the bore only 21£ inches in diameter, so that no large quantity of auriferous stuff can be obtaitiod until a shaft is put down. This is to be done forthwith. The artesian Avell is being sunk at tho side of a road, and the surrounding land belongs to the Dargaville family. DUNEDIN, To-day.

Monsignor Coleman willed his property to the Dunedin diocese. The following are Exhibition awards : — Hops and malt : In hops only one sample was entered for competition, by J. Wilson and Co. (Dunedin), who were awarded a Ist certificate ; pale malt: Wigram Bros. (Christchurch) 1, W. Cuddon (Christchurch) 2 ; black malt : Wigram Bros. 1, W. Cuddon and G. Lintott (Oamaru) 2 ; barley : Manning and Co. (Christchurch) 1, J. Speight and Co. (Dunedin) l^. The jurors in malt were Messrs G . L. Denniston, Jno. Marshall, W. S. Neill, and J. B. Dodson. Twenty bands have entered for the Exhibition Band contest. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. The annual meeting of the Convocation of tho University was held yesterday. Dr White of Dunedin, was in the chair. A resolution was carried recommending the Senate to allow students to take L.L.D. degree examination in such a way as to enable them to bo admitted to tho Bar without being compelled to wait until they had obtained the degree. Resolved that the Senate should furnish the governing bodies ot the College with full details of the results of the annual degree and scholarship examination. Recommended that work should be prescribed in science for junior scholarships, and that it is desired to revive obsolete regulations under which teachers of certain standing were allowed to proceed to graduation. Dunedin was fixed as che place of meeting next year.