INTEUPROVINCIAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIL, Issue 7296, 3 June 1895, Page 2

INTEUPROVINCIAL

[Per Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, Saturday.

The report of the Tariff Commission wa9 signed by the Commissioners to-day and returned for transmission to His Excellency the Governor. Before separatiug finally the Commissioners unanimously passed the following resolution : — " That seeing that the work entrusted tc the Commissioners has occupied them until a period which will only leave them about fourteen days between tho date on which they can reach their homes and the date on which they will have to leave again to attend the session of Parliament, they will be unable to deliver the usual pre-sessional addresses, and hereby appeal to their several constituencies to hold them excused."

At a largely attended meeting of the executive of the New.Zealand Alliance jheld last evening, it was resolved to hold a colonial convention of representatives of all temperance societies from all over the colony in Wellington about the first week in July. A large number of delegates have already promised to attend, and it ia expected that the gathering will be one of the largest and most representative ever held in New Zealand. Mr R. 0. Cook, who has bemi chief clerk in the Customs Department forgthe past 17 years, is to retire on a pension, and Mr J. H. Hempton, senior landing waiter in Wellington, is to receive the vacant position. Captaiu Westrup, of the Waipatu, reports that on his trip from Patea he narrowly escaped running into what was apparently a fore and aft schooner. The meeting took place at about 2 a.m. off Manu Island. Captain Westrup was unaware of the presence of the schooner until close to it, when he just managed to alter his course in time to avert a collision. The schooner had no lights. To-day. It is expected the reduction in the workiDg days on co-operative works will make room for some 600 men who are now out of employment. The s.s. Tongariro sailed from Plymouth on Saturday for Wellington and Lyttelton with 94 passengers and 2,400 tons of cargo. The prisoner J. M. Foggan, who escaped from Mount Cook gaol nearly a month ago, was recaptured yesterday at Manukau on the Manawatu line. A man named Henry Watson walked into the police station on Saturday night and said he had eaten a quantity of matches with the intention of doing away with himself, but the pain was so severe that he came for relief. For some time the man was in a very serious condition but was eventually brought round. AUCKLAND, To-day. Obituary : Rev. Alexander Carrick, pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, from typhoid fever. [The deceased gentleman, who came from Australia to Auckland over 20 years ago, was esteemed for the earnestness of his spiritual exhortations, and admired for his ornate and impassioned pulpit addresses. The news of his decease will be received with regret by Presbyterians.] Argument in the case on appeal against the decision of the Registrar at Gisborne, adjudicating Mr Wi Pere a bankrupt, has been adjourned till Wednesday. The Municipal authorities have received from Sir G. Grey for the Free Public Library a case of valuable works consisting of 242 volumes, including Voltaire's and Goethe's complete works, and 19 volumes of works of Italian authors, and about 100 by other writers. CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. After a long, and at times acrimonious, discussion the Lyttelton Harbor Board today negatived by seven votes to five two amendments, providing respectively that the Otago Harbor Board dredge should be engaged for two months and from month to month, and decided to affix the seal of the Board to the new charter for re-engaging the dredge for Bix months:

DUNEDIN, Saturday.

The Dunedin Assembly of the Knights of Labor have passed the following resolutions : — (1) That with the present abnormal rise in the local wheat market resulting from large financial transactions, the farmers will not derive any benefit, and that the state of the wheat market outside the colony does nob warrant the prices ; (2) that in view of a general fall in the value of produce and decrease of the incomes of all connected with agricultural and commercial pursuits, the Government be asked to initiate a gradual reduotion in all civil servants receiving £200 and over, including Education Boards.

LYTTELTON, Saturday.

The owners of the ketch Comet say there was no carbolic powder en board either as cargo or for use on the vessel. That found was probably washed from the deck of a steamer. The Comet left here on 10th of April. The owners think she was wrecked in the heavy gale on the following Saturday, when she would be in about the worst part of Cook Strait.