INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 2235, 19 November 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

r (Pbb Fksss Association.) • Auckland, Nor. 18. \ Tha City Council hare arranged with : the Telegraph Department to put up the j Sre annunciators lately received. l Tha Telegraph Department are about , to place a cable across Waiteraata, and to I eaUbliah telephone and telegraph utationj s at Stokes Point, Lake district, and Devons port on the North Shore, m connection with the Auckland head office. ) The Whangarei Agricultural Show was , largely attendsd. » A man ha» been found drowned at Big i Ohama. The body has not been identified. Thames, Not. 18. ' The prospects of the new goldfields at ' Te Aroha are improving, and shares are ' selling at good prices. Large quantities ; of stone are being taken out showing ; gold. , GISBORNE, Nov. 18. f Mr Price, R.M., is striously ill, »nd his medical adviser says he will not be ' fit for duty for • considerable perind. i The want of a resident magistral* is much ; felt. , Opdnakb, Nov. 18. ; A narrow escapo from a fatal accident 1 occurred at the Opunxke Hotel last night. ■ A person under the influence of drink 1 entered a room where three or four 1 gentlemen were asleep. Seeing a riflo 1 lying m the corner he took it up and ' while examining it it exploded. Mr Armit, formerly of Wellington but now of , the Hawora Star, was asleep close to [ where the discharge took place and a f quantity of grains of powder entered his . face, but fortunately the bullet struck tho i iron at the head of the bed which turned b iti coun», otherwin Mr Skot »nd Mr

Sadfield (native interpreter) would have been seriously injured if not killed. Wellington, Nov. 18. Acceptances for the Wellington Spring Handicap close on Monday at eight. The Directors of the WellingtonManawatu railway have concluded all their preliminary arrangements, and today concluded the terms of their agreement with Government. The3e are of a highly tatisfactory nature. The Company's solicitor is instructed to draw up the formal contract on the terms settled. The terminus of the line is to bo at Longburn, about four miles from Palmerston North, this being found a much preferable route to the Fulton one. Government do not require any security from the Company beyond an undertaking to expend L 50.000 within the first year, heing content beyond this to rely on the powers given by clause 123 nf the Railway* Construction Act. Five years is allowed to complete the line. The allocation of land has been 6xed between Government and the company and the valuation made. The line will be eighty-two milei m length, and the Company is entitled to L 123.000 worth of land. A recent Government survey of the proposed main line through Manawatu Gorge shows it can be completed for about LIO,GOO per mile, or L 90.000 from Palmerstnn to Woodville. As between Napier and Wellington, this line will be tiiirtv-three miles »hort.-r than the line from Napier through Wairarap3. The financial arrangements to enable the Company to commence work at once will likely be completed m a few days. Gbevmotjih, Nov. 18. A storekeeper at Barrytowu, named Mcllroy, while shooting a bullock to-day had his left hand blown off by the gun bursting. The shareholders m Langdon's Extended Company intend employing Mr Rae (now reporting on the Reefton mines for Otago people) to report upon the prospects of Langdon'g lease. Christchukch, Nov. 18. A poll was taken to-day on the subject of borrowing L 20.000 for a waterworks scheme proposed by the City Council. Great opposition has been manifested to the proposal which, however, meets with general favor from the Press. A man promenaded the town calling on people to vote against it, and the opponents of the measure were very active m their endeavors to work up an agitation against the proposal. The result was, it was rejected by 463 against 832. Dunedik, Nov. 18. A seaman named Alfred Palmer, of the Rio Grande, has been arrested, charged with wounding the boatswain of the same vessel. The two had quarrelled, and Palmer, who was about to take his dinner, had a knife and fork m his hand, and m the scuffle the knife struck Carlson, the boatswain, m the Bide. Two children are reported as having died at Wanaka through eating unripe fruit. A man named Lenniway ii supposed to have been drowned m Catlin'i River. He wa» sailing m a flat-bottomed boat with a companion, when it filled. Lenniway swam to the shore, and has not uinca been heard of. His mate was picked up very exhausted.