INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2782, 23 August 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Pee Press Association.) AfCKIAKD, Aug. 22. At a meeting of the Harbor Board to-day, the report of Mr Wardell, Consulting Engineer of Sydney, was read re the Calliope Dock plant. He generally approved of tho phos. Mr McDonald, tho Board's Engineer, suggested the Dock should be made m two divisions for large and Bmall vessel?, as pumping out the whole length of the Dock every time would be o he ivy charge.

Out of twenty-sight writs issued against the natives living on the Pukckuri and Penaboo blocks, Cambridge, 20 were served m time for hearing at the next session of the Supreme Court. The dumages claimed amount to £SCO. Tho native ejectment case will cost it is snid, something like £3000, ond another will afford some profitable picking".

| Detectives are engaged n>aking investigations into (he origin of the recei.t Gre m K»rangabape road, but co far without success. Incendiarism is suspected, and probably an enquiry into the occurrence will be held. Elizabeth Jane Reeves, seventeen months old. a daughter of Bichnrd Beeves, a butcher. of Devenport, was knocked down' by one of tho horses of the Waiwera 'bm, and died an bour after. Mr Sheridan, tragedian, and Miss Louino Davenport opened to night at. the Oper» House with the " Merchant of Venice " to a good ! oust). Mr Shmdnii'B impersonation of ' Shylock " was greatly admiwd. Henry Lawrence, a busbman, waa brought up from the upper Mercury Bay mill, hie chest having been crushed m while packing logs. He is not expected to live. A four-roomed cottage at North Shore, belonging to Israel Hurst, was burned down this evening. It was unoccupied. The houre, which was insured m the Colonial office for £160, was only bought two dayi ago from Mrs Heath for £200. Wellington, Aug. 22. The embezzlement caso against Thoa. (Jule, late Secretary of the Torutabi Dairy Company, was dismissed. The directors offere t no further evidence as tho amount bad been paid. Dr Hector writes to tho locil papers to tbo effect that m the astronomical column m Nature of 23th Juno the reeult of more aucurale oomputationß are given of the moon's expected place during the next great, total eclipsa of the sun, which occurs on the 9th September, 1885. The only land which the moon's shadow will cro-s on that occasion is New Zsalanrf, and it now app ars that the central lice of totality will pass over Wellington, which will be the most important observing station. Tbe erlipje will commence here on the morning of 9th B*ptrmber, 7h. 35m. 12*. of mean New Zealand time, which is about an hour and a-half after sunrise. The duration of tbe total darkness will be lunin. 23*ee. The total eclipse also passes over Nelson, where it commences nt 7b. 34m. Si., but only lasts lmin. 3;e.i.

Cubisiceubch, Aug. 22. I [Mr Harper gave notice m the Supreme Court this morning, that he intends to move for a new trial m the case Stranagan v. the Standard Insurance Company, on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence.

DtTNBDIN, Aug. 22. The annual meeting of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association »a» held to-day. The year's recoipts were £996, of which £414 cams from subscriptions, £288 from gate money, booths, etc., and £173 from entries. The expenditure was £1001, of which £431 was pnid away m prizes. Mr John Boberts was elected President, and Mr. Geo. Grey Eussel, Vice-President. Mr Strathan Lowe, late Traffio Mansger

the Auckland railway, has been appointed to the control of eight hundred mile* of line m Canada.

A letter received hero from a London agent states that the Lady Jocelyn's meat did net approach the standard of quality of that by the Fenstanton, which waa of superb quality, faultless oa to size, and quite suitable for the market m alt other respects.

A moetiDg of the unemployed called for this morning, was attended by a hundred people. Several speeches were made by persons who had been unable to find work, and eventually a deputation waited ou the Mayor, who said he would telegraph a representation of their case to Wellington.

The Police arrested the clerk of tho West Harbor Borough Council today, on a charge of wilfully destroying Borough property. He hat been admitted to bail.

A man named Alfred Sernby is m custody for stealing fifty £1 notes fr>rn the person of George Dykes, at the Working Men's Club. Knox Church (Presbyterian) is to have an organ sent to them from England, which is described as the finest ever sent to the colony. The makers are Messrs Lewis and Co., of Brixton.

The Pembroke correspondent of the Time* reports a buggy accidents! and three o?om>B>.t» being killed or seriously injured. No reliable particulars are yet to hand.

The amateur performance last night of " Patience" was highly successful.