NEW ZEALAND

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5014, 23 May 1889, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND

(By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND. May 22. A company is to bo formed to prospect for coal near Kawakawa. Tlie Halfway-house Hotel, at Tauranga, has been forfeited, the licensee having been absent from the premises for more than 14 days. Mr R, J. Creighton considers that there is agrowing feeling in the South in favour of the San Francisco mail service. The creditors of T. L. White have instructed the Official Assignee to proceed against him for contempt of court, as he has absented himself from two meetings in the estate. Colonel Shepherd has been asked to hold a full enquiry into the recent volunteer mis* conduct. WELLINGTON, May 22. The Ministers have been holding meetings of the Cabinet night and day for some time, preparing work for Parliament, Sir P. Whitaker and the Hon, E. 0. J. Stevens having come to Wellington for that purpose. Mr Stevens left for Christchurch to-day. The Hon. Mr Mitchelson having returned from the north, the tlon. Mr Eichardson is expected to return from the West Coast in a day or two. The Doric left Plymouth for Port Chalmers on Saturday last. BLENHEIM, May 22. A public meeting was held this afternoon to consider the question of Marlborough representation at the Dunedin Exhibition. A strong representative committee was formed to collect exhibits of local products and industries. It is probable that two or three bays will be taken up with exhibits of grain, wool, flax, preserved meats, and minerals. One of the local meat preserving companies expressed their intention of applying for one bay for their own exhibits, and several local gentlemen stated that they would use their best endeavours to make a special feature of mineral exhibits from Mahikipawa, Waikakaho, and Wairau Yalley goldfields. It is expected that the display of quartz from the various reefs in the district will be a fine one, DUNEDIN, May 22. Satisfactory arrangements have been made for a lawn tennis championship meeting during the exhibition, and several inter-colonial players are expected. Over £9O has already been collected. A meeting is shortly to be held to receive a report on “ sweating ” by the committo ap- , pointed at a public meeting. The committee up till a few days ago had every reason to believe that a satisfactory agreement -would have been arrived at, but at the last moment they wore disappointed, and they now consider that the solution lies in arousing the public conscience. The investiga'ions of the committee have led to a great increase in prices; indeed in one case prices now paid far exceed anything that might be expected, but all efforts to arrange a tariff have foiled, and the committee felt that as soon as public attention ceased to bo directed to the matter affairs would revert to their former condition. INVERCARGILL, May 22. At a meeting of 60 persona to-night resolutions were passed expressing sympathy with t he leaders of the Irish Home Rule movement, and inviting the league delegates, now in the colonics, to visit Invercargill. Mr Fcldwick and Mr Ward, M.H.R.s, were present, and took the ground that they could, without promulgating the objects of Mr Dillon’s mission, welcome him and party as members of the House of Commons. The mayor, Mr Fleming, had been asked to preside at the meeting, but declined in writing, stating that while he did not object to Ireland securing local government, bo did not think it was conducive to the good fooling that should exist among colonists to discuss the question hero.