INTERPROVINCIAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5671, 18 January 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

[PBB PrK.S AsKoIiIATION.J WELLINGTON, To-day. H.M.S. Opal loft for Auckland to-day. H.M.S, Orland«, with Lord Cam ngton and the Earl of Onslow on board are to arrive in Wellington on Tuesday afternoon next. The D Battery of Artillery will parade to fire a vice-regal salute, and the city Rifles, Wellington Rifles, Newtown Rifles, and Garrison Band will form a guard of honor. Loyal addresses will be presented to His Excellency the Governor, the Wellington Navals and Garrison Band forming a guard of honor on hat occasion. The Premier, though better generally, has fallen off greatly in weight, and will still have to be in the hands of the doctors for some time. No Cabinet meeting was held to-day, as Sir Harry Avas somewhat indisposed after his trip up. Ministers had an informal talk this afternoon. It is pretty well settled Sir John Hall and the Hon. Mr Russell will be delegates to the Federation Conference. Government have abandoned hopes of having a big surplus, since the customs receipts have persistently fallen off. The Land fund also has dropped in an unprecedented manner. The Customs deficiency has greatly puzzled the officials, who are at a loss to account for it. It was supposed the direct and indirect outlay on the Exhibition alone would have pulled the revenue up, but it seems to have had little or no effect. The Colonial Secretary, who granted a permit to the promoters of the Freo Public Library Jubilee Art Union, not satisfied that the provisions of the Act are being complied with, has informed them that the permit will be revoked. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. At the wool sales to-day about 6500 bales were submitted. The prices were as follows : —Merino clothing 8d to 9^d, combing Bfd to 10jd, cross-bred 8d to 9|d, half-bred 9d to lid, fine half-bred llid, pieces and locks according to quality. Several large clips were withdrawn for shipment. Messrs Parker and Tribe have replied to a deputation of the Trades and Labor Council that they cannot work their factory as they consider it based on the established system of manufacturing, and that it would prove unprofitable to both employer and employee under the log proposed by the Tailors' Union. They" suggest that the council should advise the Union to adopt the Dunedin log, which they understand has been adopted by Wellington and Auckland. If Christchurch adopts a special log for itself it must prove, they consider, detrimental to Canterbury trade. It is expected that a strike or lock out will probably follow. AUCKLAND, To-»ay. Yesterday Mr Dillon, with a number of friends, went on a fishing excursion in the harbor. Mr Dillon visited Miss Manning, daughtor of the late Judge Manning, and conversed for some time in regard to her father and Now Zealand history, in which the Irish delegate appears greatly interested. An Auckland artist Miss A. Dobson, who went Home six years ago and entered the Royal Academy, being the first New Zealand student in that institution, has returned to this city. DUNEDIN, To-day. At the Primitive Methodist Conference the Roy. Mr Luke was elected president, and the Rev. Mr Boothroyd secretary. The first draft of stations gives New Plymoutk the Roy. Mr Nixon, Wellington the Rev. Chas. Ward and a Minister from England, Auckland Roy. Arthur Smith and Rev. Mr Woodward, Invercargili Revs. Guy and Lyon, Timaru Rev. Mr Woollas, Thames Rev. Mr Dawson, Greendale Rev. Mr Jones, Christchurch Rev. Mr Pottex*, Ashburton Roy. Mr Boothroyd, Manawatu Rev. Mr Harris, Gerildme Rev. Mr Clements, Auckland second Rev. Laycocke, Dunedin Rev. Sharp, fe'outh Invercargill one minister from England, Foxton Rev. Olphort, and Stratford Rev. Clover.