INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2771, 10 August 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Pbh Pkess Association.) Auckland, Aug. 9. Til a police are pressing tho provisions of the Licensing Act against Bunday trading. ' Gilhnder, of the Pacific. Hotel, was fined £10 ' to day for a breach of the Aot. A cable message reports that the Australia, with tbe outward San Francisco mail, ' arrived on the 7th ioet., two days ahead of her ' contract time. The Secretary of the Regatta Committee 1 htiß written to the Australian Yacht Olubs ' stating that a prize of £200 will be offered at ' the next regatta if yaohts will como over to 1 compete for it Mr Macdonald, the Engineer to the Harbor ' Board, has returned from Australia, His dook plans have been approved by the consultiDg Engineer. _ Mr Gordon Goooho's concert m aid of the i funds for sending a representative football < team south, was well-attended to-night. The ] representatives leave by tbe Manapouri on i August 16th. They play m Canterbury od tbe ' 25th; Dunedin on September lit, and m Wei- ' lington on September Bth. I At the inquest on Mrs Mary Scott, the^oj/

mortem examination showed the caime of her deuih to ho rupture of tlio heart. Dr. Holmes said fright cnused by the attack of tho monliiy (see previous telegrams) upon her would accelerate the rupture. At a mooting of tho Auckland branch of tho New Zealand Educational Institute, a resolution wob pissed deprecating the proposed curtailment of holidays at publio sohools by tlie Board of Education, also I hat the Board be requested to compare tho holidays m this educational district with thogo m the South, and m secondary schools. Wbllinqtoh, Aug. 0. Captain Gilford, a well-known mariner of Dunedin, who was injured while stepping off a tramcar on Sunday, died from the injuries m tho Hospital yesterday afternoon. An inquest will be held. A Koval Commiaiion has been appoint-d to enquire into tho causes of the outbreak of fever on board tho ship Oxford. The Commissioners are — Dr Henry, Health Ofllrer ; Dr Grabham, Inspector of Afylums j and Mr Hackworth, Collector of Customs. The enquiry will bo a moat searching one. A number of immigrants have been releasid from qunrantine, aud the patienta are progressing favorably. At an inquest on the body of Robert Mayne, who committed suicide at Martinborough on Tuesday by cutting his throat, a verdict of "Suicide, while suffering from temporary insinity," was returned. The members of the Legislature visit the Terawhili goldfleld on Saturday next. CnniSTCHuncii, Aug. 9. At a general meeting of shareholder! of the Pioneer Diamond Company to-night, Kelsey's last cablegram was read as follow! :— "Groat authority aays deceptive. Suggests immediate sinking for larger specimens, which forward to me sharply. Reply also when aont." As this is a continuation of the roply to a telegram from Chriitchureh as follows, " Most important you should telograph immediately are atones diamonds. Uao our code," tho first of reply bring "Diamonds havo been tested by competent authority, who declares a fair proportion genuine. Cabling the result of tho cutting on Friday and the value," it is taken to taoan that though tho diamonds are genuine, Ihcutling has reduced tho size co much that the value could Dot be ascertained. It is thought that Kelsey would not have gone to the oxpenfo of cabling aa he haa dono full tno?»ago', not using the code, or recommended tho expen»o of deeper sinking, were the stones not diamonds. At the Wasto Lands Buard meeting today, a largo number of applicante for prospecting licenses were disappointed, as they are postponed till Monday. Tho Chairman announced that holders of licenses lo prospect forfeited them if they trafficked m thorn, and that f nturo licenses would ba for only 100 acres, and that tho lenses would bo for GO feet by GO feet, except m the caso of prospectors, who would huvo ten times that quantity. The question whether holders of prospecting licooscs are to bo considered prospectors, is to be decided oa Monday. Dunbdin, Aug. 9. A sfivero frost prevail* m tho Vincent and Maniototo diitricte, and skating and curling aro vigoroußlv indulged m. The Harbor Master hna advised the B )»nl that tho Rotormhana and To Anau may come to Dunedin wharvcj at no distant date, instead of slopping as at present at Port Chalmers. The Rotomahana enqu'ry concluded today, and judgment will he given on Monday. For blocking the fdo'pilu by kneeline m open air services, Captain Burfoat of the Salvation Army was fined one shilling without costs to-day. Inveucabqill, Aug. 9. A young man named Jacob Alsweilor met with a severe accident to-day at a sawmill. A log rolled over him, brooking his ribs close to tho breast bone, crushing him internally and injuring Ilio spinal cord, causing pnralyfis of the lower limbs. Dr Olois has vory slight hopes of his recovery.