INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2033, 29 March 1881, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

(Per Pkkss Association.) Auckland, March 28. Tho American whaling barque James, ashore at Awanui Heads, v reported to be a total wreck. She was twelve months out from New Bedford, with 300 barrels of oil. The vessel is lying; |on her beam ends, with six feet of water m her holJ at low water. Her masts have been cut away, and the crow are discharging cargo. The whala oil cannot bo got out. Nothing is insured. J Thomas Hutchings, a settler at Whau, was thivwn from his trap and picked up insensible. His injuries are severe, but ' not fatal. ■ Mr Thomas Conk, a settler at Tanhoa, has been found dead on tho road. > At the inquest on Anthony Zambia, a verdict of accidental death was returned. The Waitangi meeting has closed, and ■ the natives have dispersed. Deserters from the whaler Robert 1 Morrison stolo a boat from Brown, at ■ Whapu, Russell. The police recovered the boat, but have not captured the deserters. \ A boy named Richard Campbell was thrown from his horse at Mount Albert, I and his head struck a stone wall fractur- . ing his skull. . I Gabtkrtojt, March 28. I A meeting of the Jockey Club was held f on Saturday. Nineteen nominations were r received for the Champagne Stakes, 1882, 1 and twenty-two for the District Produce • Stakes, 1884. The question as to the • advisability of holding a spring meeting " was referred to the stewards. ' Wellington, March 28. I At tho Resident Magistrate's Court _ William Michael Downes was charged '. with illegally removing stamps from certain papers, and remanded until Friday j for tho purposa of bringing up an im- , portant witness from Christchurch. 1 At a meeting of the Provisional Diiec- ! tors of the Wellington-Manawatu railway „ this afternoon, it was resolved to allow the question of the terminus tr> remain • op'on until tho Permanent Directors are » olected. It was stated their prospects » were good, L 30.000 having been sub- ■ scribed. Messrs Shannon and Nathan were added to the Executive Council. : Blenheim, March 28. I The Havelock enquiry was concluded b on Saturday. Mr McNub, for Mr Frith, asked tho Commissioners if they would ! make their decision known. The ComP missioners replied that they had to roport f to tho Governor, and tho result no doubt , would shortly bo made known. | Hokitika, March 28. ; Mr Justice Gillies opened the Supreme i Court at 10 this morning. Jane Browne, ' for stealing from the person, was acquitted, i The case of Daniel Whelnn, stealing from ' a dwelling, was partly heard and adjourned till 10 to-morrow. The Hon. Mr Gisborno leaves Christchurch, en route to Wellington, to-morrow morning. Gieeymouth, March 28. The return of amalgam from (he top plates of the Golden .Fleeco Extended Quartz Mining Company for the last week was 203 ounces from 132 tons quariz. A large blast has been ficod m connection with tho harbor works. Tho charge consisted of lOOOlbs of colonial dynamito and 2501bs of colonial lithofractour. This is tho first largo charge of such explosives fired m tho colony. Although the rock was full of seams and cavities, it is estimated about 9000 tons were thrown out and loosened. Christuhukch, March 28. Tho opening of tho Public Library on Sunday was carried to-day by nine to threo after a long discussion. The hours will bo from three till five p.m., and from seven to nine p.m. Tho Board of Agriculture havo determined to instruct tho Director of tho Agricultural School to form a nursory of mulberries m ordor to supply aorioulturists with yearling plants. Tho unemployed agitation has been started again. A mooting of men was held this morning, but they appeared to have no definite object, and most of tlmso present were drawn by curiosity. Tho West Coast railway entorod largely into tho diacussiou, but tho only thing which tho men seemed unanimous about \v;>s to interview tho Premier. In contrast to this agitation, a paragraph appears m a paper this morning stating that eight swaggers wore offered work at from 10s to 12a per day, feeding a machine, and only two would take it. Of tliO3o one threw it up nfter a fow hours. Tho Drainage Board to-day mado a determined onslaught on their wa«ossheet. They cut tho two Assistant Engineers down by LIOO each, and reducol tho wages below m almost a3 homy a proportion. Dan O'Brion, tho well-known jockoy, fell off the express train to-night about a mile this side of Winchester station, and was severely injured, the wheel cutting all tho toos off tho right foot. Oamaku, March 28. Two stacks of oats and a stack of wheat belonging to Mr John Lawrence, were destroyed by fire on Saturday night. It is evident that the lire was tho dolibernto act of an incendiary, for tho straw had been pullod out and laid down between tho stacks, which were about twolve feot apart. The stacks were about half a milo from the main road. They wore insured m the Victoria Company for L7O, about ono-third of their valuo. John Peattio. who was injured by a threshing machine a fow days ngo, is dead. Dunkuin, March 28. A passenger uuuiud Sydney Stock fell from tho Bteamer Mountaineer into Lake Wakatipu early this morning. His body was recovered an hour afterwards.

It was st.ited at a meeting of Five- li thinkers yesterday, that they "ill declaro li themselves as such m the census to be v taken next Sunday. c Invekcahgill, March 28. c During the cruise of the Alert, which i returned to the Bluff yesterday, a man r named David McKenzie was washed overboard and drowned. . Mr Robert Stout, of Dunedin, is to \ lecture here on Monday next on " The 1 Irish question, and the lessons it teaches r to colonists." £