INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2052, 30 May 1878, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Pbbss Agency.] ; Auckland, May 29. j . At a meeting of the Waitemata County Cquncil,,MrDollworth said he had been informed by the member for Waitemata, only this morning, that the Government Were" making arrangements for the employment of 20,000 Natives at 10s per day,' for the construction of a railway from Waikato to Taranaki. The council resolved to represent again to the Government the delay m letting the middle contract of the Kaipara railway. . A. letter received from Mr Macandrew, re^B3o,ooo required for the provincial district of Auckland, states that the payment thereof depends on a loan being negotiated by Mr Larnach. ...;*• • • Wellington, May 29. ; §ir] George Grey and MrSheehan arrived m .the Hinemoa this afternoon. The Hinemoa takes the Governor, Lord flaryey Phipps^ Captain Maling, and Mr Sneihan' to-morrow at 4 p.m. to LytteltonT: The Governor will stay m Canterbtiry! about 10 days. Mr Sheehan goes to settle some Native disputes there. ; ; Boeitika, May 29. jsChe Union Bank of Australia has shipped, .per Tararaa, 24560z5. of gold, j the produce of this district. ' Chbistohukch, May 29. '.'•lt » tn'mored that a valuable hotspring has been discovered at the foot of the Peninsula hills, m the Ellesmere district. ■ ; -■ , Dunedin, May 29. James Blythe, binder remand for embezzling moneyß belonging to the Albion Brewery. 'Company, and who had been liberated on bail, has absconded. He is supposed to have gone to Sydney or Melbourne. . At- a meeting of the Education Board tq-day, they resolved not to entertain the application, for school buildings until mbniy 'enabling' them to do so would be rrile'd by 1 Parliament. 'The' misunderstanding betweeu the Education Board and the Dunedin School Committee 'continues. ' The latter maintains .that it should .be consulted on educational matters by the Board, and it hau' warned the head master of one of the Dtinedin District Schools that the recent appointnients made to it by the Board are aw---'