INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2777, 17 August 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Phess Association.) Auckland, Au«. 16. As the Manapouri let with the football team, a crowd assembled on thp wharf and gave them a hearty cheer. £200 was tabscribed towards their expenses. Tho areroge weight of the team is list 81b».

It is rumored the Rev. J. G-. Hodgeion bn retigned the charge of the Hto Rot. Samuel Edgar's congregation whose platform ws» Untectarian Christianity, and bat proceeded south with the intention of mating application to the Bishop of Nelson to join the Church of England. \ At the Choral Hall today, m the prfsenos of a large assemblage, Bishop Cowie presented three B.A. diplomas to C. Y. Clajton, W. Tomlinson, and J. H. Wilfon, graduates of the New Zealand University. Two Kanakaß were committed for trial today on a charge oE stabbing a man named McQuinlan.

James Murphy has been committed for trial at Whangaroa for beaatiality. The Appl» Company will hare 50,000 treei planted on their farm by the end of the month.

At a meeting of »Wf holders m Fisher and Company (Limito !)i a reeolution to wind up the company wai carried unanimously, the property of tho company being transferred lo the Frozen Meat Company. Tho youth Alex. Bradey or Braddon, who was supposed to have committed suicide, wa« s : gbted to-day m the suburbs. He is beliered to be suffering from mental deraDgemeat. Taubakga, Aug. 16. The New Zealand Manure and Chemical Company has been formed for the purpose o£ working the valuable sulphur, gypsum, and hematite deposits at White Island. It has been duly incorporated, and shnrea are being rapidly taken up. The capital is £30,000, the first issue being £10, COO.

YVanganci, Aug. 16. Two of the Oxford immigrants who came up m tho Huia on Sunday hare typhoid feTer, and word taken to the Hospital to-night. Their nacoej are Robert Patton and Mary O'Sullivan. The man's ca?e is slight, but the woman's is more serious.

WBiIIHGTON, i ug. 16.Tbe Golden Crown Company's (Terawhiti) directors have cabled to Melbourne an order to complete the ten-head crushing plant, with all latest improvement*.

At the Divorce Court to-day, rales »b«o---lule were granted m tbe cases MulbolUnd T. Hulholland, and Mnvnard r. Maynard. The case of Clinov. Clino was heard. The petition wag from tho wife, who reiidra at Oarterton, for a dissolution of rrarrisge on the ground of her husband's cruelty, and alio adultery with one Mrs Sp»rgo, Hia Honor laid he wsi satisfied as to tbe adultery, bat on one or two pointi of law he would rettrr* judgment.

Gbeymotith, Aug. 18.

There wat, a terrific aea on the bar thil morning, bat it i« not so bad now. The Grafton itartcd for Westport, but put back on finding such weathpr outside.

Wbstpobt, Aujj. 16.

A fatal accident occurred on (be Westport Ooal Company's incline lait night. A boy named Worlrfisb. was sent down frooi Denniston at 4 pm. with a menage, and not returning, tenreh was made. The body tv foiind by bia father at midnight under tbe trestle work of part of the incline known ai McDonald's Hill. One leg tru nearly severed from the body. It it supposed that he bled ta death. The boy Kent up from the bottom of the incline at dark m the last truck ran, which stopped at the top, »t the lowest trcttle. It is supposed the unfortunate boy got out aad attempted to walk the remaining distance, but was caught by the truck and run over.

CHBI9TCHUHCH, Aug. 16. The Waste Lands Board today granted to Long and party a license to prospect for gold m the Malvern district. The object of the party is to diicover a gold-bearing reef. The Chief Commiisioner announced that the Board had decided to defer consideration of other applications for prospectors' liornses m tbe Malvern district till next meeting, when they would consider how long, and for what extent of ground, further licenses should be granted. They felt a diffiouity ie dealing with so many applications for the tame diltriot, as if all were granted it would shut up for months a large area m the case of gold beinj discovered. Of the numerous applicants for diamond prospecting licenses, not one answered when his name was called.

lease Mawsoo, an old settler, was drowned m the river Selwyn this morning. The rirer was greatly swollen, but Mawsoa had *ncceeded m cresting nearly to ths opposite bank, when the buggy turned orer and he was washed away.

Diplomas of the University and degrees were presented to-day m the old Provincial Chamber*, ts eight Bachelors of Art», including one lady. The Chancellor: *nd Professors Cook and Bickerton deliTered lengthy addresses.

Oahabb, Aug. 16. A meeting of etockowners and others will bo held hero on the 29th iost, to consider the advisability of forming' a Company to construct meat freezing work*, &o.

Dunedin-. Anj. 16. At the Port Chalmers Police Cjurt to-d»y Herbert Bass, a boy belonging to the Te Anau, was charged with landing a rug aad one pound of tobacco on which duty bad not been paid. Mr Eose, Collector of Customs, proaf cated tho lid, who pleaded guilty, and was lined £4 (treble tho value of the ortiolei) and cott«.

The ship Waimate ou her voyage out lost a seaman overboard named Charles Brown. He fell off tbe taffrail while m a fit.

At the Education Board to-day, the followiog motion was carried :— " l'bst with • view of considering the desirability of diriding the City of Dumdin into fire school districts, under the charge of cc; a ate Committee*, the Secretary be instructed to collect information as to what, ia the custom m citiei and largo towne m other prorinces, and also to advise the Board a> to the boundaries of sueli diitriets, should it prove advisable to declare them." : . . .

The Kugbj Union hare concluded arrangements to hold the Auckland match on the Culedonian Society's ground close to the city, instead of at Taieri, ten miles away, where the Christchurch and Sydney matches were played last year. The attendance i>, therefore, sura ti be large. .

The Dunedin Preebyttry hare refuted to sustain a cill from Napier to the fiev. Charles Ross.

Mr Haggilt has applied to the Supremß Court for a mandamus, calling on the 'Licensing Bench to isauß a Iico:uo to the B»ilw»y Refreshment Booms.

A fire-roomed house m Oirgill road, owned and occupied by Meti, a plasterer, wai burned down thia morning. It was ctßted by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. 'The insurances aro : — Australian Alliance, £175 ; Norwich Onion and Standard, £175. The honse of Conncll adjoining was gutted. The ceremony of presenting diploma!, to tho successful student a of the New -Zealand University took place this eYening. "The Rev. Dr Ro*eby presided; and'pfetentjsd diplomas to ten students, two M.A.'», one L.L.D., and the rest B.A.'s. ThsßcT.Dr Stuart, Chancellor of (he Otago" University, Mr Justice Williams, Vioe-Chanoellor, and otheri delivered addresses. Thf re was a large attendance. The students were Tery demonstrative, and interrupted the speech of Mr Denniston, solicitor, repeatedly, by e»t-c*ll», etc.