INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1696, 9 February 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Gahrifl Modify, Town (Jiftrl;, i.>evonporr, aocl Sccretriry to tho Devonport Ferry Company, has been rnisiing; sines Friday night-. His hat and stick were loft in the ferry waiting room. Tho harbor has been dragged without result. Ho is believe:! to hare gone to Fiji. Domestic troubles are supposed to be the cauie, His bocks are all right. An Auckland mining boom hns commonced. Manitoto ore yields #I4OO per ton. Shares wore at lid on Friday, and bud gone up on Monday to 4s and were still rising, The North No« Zealand Wollon Company li'-m made a profit of £l9O 7s 41 on three months' actual oporations, On Saturday afternoon a little girl named Amy Richards, about seven years) of age, foil over a cliff at Dr Camber's Point, Parneil, Auckland, and w;is killed instantly, her bruins btsirig dashed out on the rocks below. Tho child had been playing in company with her elder sister, and in endeavoring to re >ch soma Christmas flowers growing on the edge of tin .cliff she fell.

A lad named Flood, son of Mr G. F. Flood, of tho Hoienavillo Hotel, Auckland tv.-i.'i |>oi::o!ifnl on tfatiinlyy by ruling iiipaki bcui«;;.

A. i<i;.n is rcpoilod to hav.': b<vn ;y-<-n in gli iii.';»<ie coiuliuon cm h-id::y on lb<road, rjs:;tr JJL: i.-. supposed to bo the missing nun tiiilbraith. A roan named John Doran died suddenly about five miles from Pahiatua on Tuesday. H<§ was in company with four other men, potting fire to bush. They tried to luring the body with them, but were prevented' by the fire, and were obliged to leav/i it.

The Government intend to continue the subsidy to the School of Mines in the golddigging districts of Otago. Captain Whitney, who has just relumed from England, made an exhaustive inquiry duriDg his stay at Home into the subject of armannnta, and especially those branches relrttjug to rifles, and the manufacture of ammunition, and he entered into arrangements with Messrs Greenwood and Batley for a complete plant of the most approved design for the manufacture of partridges. This plant will arrive during the present month by direct steamer in charge of a skilled artificer engaged by Captain Whitney, and the manufacture of cartridges will then be begun jo Auckland on a systematic basis. Ouptaia Whitney things that ij; would be folly to change the Sniders with which the li-vt Zealand forces are chit fly arra<-c at present for MaitinirHonris or other r-fles, pmdii.g 'he decision of the Imperial G-ov rninent on the quefctiou of arming ci,i! British troops, m he thinks that the Oommissicn uow sitting it England will ;'«.-orom<:nd the adoption of an entirely new magazine rifle, and the i3nkk-r with good ammunition will answur all the purposes of this colony quite as well as rhi'. M s "tini unUl we are in a position £o aw.', our ratn with *'-eapnr>.!» of t'i'j'mont r.pproved pat t.uniH

Numerous robberies have occurred at Auckland during th© past ssven or eight dayi", the vrork of tht> thieves being performed in a tnannsr tlju't Wivm little doubt thut it ia the lesulfc of. efforts of an organised g'vng. Houses have been entered and artiolea stolen. There is at present no clue to the identity of the thieves. At nino o'clock on Tuesday night the manager's residence attached to the National Bank at Napier was discovored to be on fire in an upstairs room, but was extinguished. The damage will be coneidernble, as probably the whole roof and ceilings will have to bo renewed and the damage by water in the lower rooms made good. The formal fleizura of the steamer Oreti, at the instance of the, captain and crew for wage?, has taten place at Wellington, lifforts were made to obtain the consent of the crew to a bond being given and the veasd released, so that she might proceed to Auckland. The captain and the other creditors declined any settlement excopt by payment of the claims "due/