INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2797, 10 September 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Association.] Auckland, Hppt. 8. A schfoner was launched today to the orler of Donald and EdinbnrnaEh, for the Irl'ind trade. She was rumed the Makerareki», after ttie Queen of R.ratonga. Sherid&n and Miss Davenport closed a successful feaoon at tlia Opera House with " Arrnh na Pogue." Sheridan leave* for San Francisco by the m-iil stesmi-r. The annuil hor?e parade nits hell at Elleralie Show Grounds. There were fifteen (•ntriec. The Bttendur.ee of the public wai fair. Great interr«t is being tikon in the football match Auck'and ai'.d tVrliington, Betting is even, though in a few eases the odds are in favor of Auckland. Crowds were around the now»p»per offices awnitißg the result. A proposal has been made in connection with the Auckland Freezing Company to establish a line of about eight gr&sa farms. 300 acre» rach, between Hnwkei Bay and Waikiito, to enable the driving of surplus •heep overland for export. The cUtnage done by the Tekoptira fawoiill firo has been ascertained to be under £10,000. THAIIE3, Sept. 8. The body of Henry Harris, harbor dredge engineer, who vra» drowned on Saturday la»t, was found floating to-day in tbe harbor near Fiako River. Wansanui, Sept. 7. Wanganui beat a Hnwrra team — a Tery strong one — yesterday &fc football by two trirß to onn disputed try. The Wangamii men go to Ncleon on Thursday night to play a match there. Chbistchukoh, Sept. 8. Hakopa Teatoatu, the oldest surviving Maori at Kiinpoi, and a chief of the Ngatahu, died on Wednesday lift, aged 85. Sept. 0. A football match— Christcbureh t. K»et Christchurch — waa pl»yed yesterday. It was won by the latter by one goal and one disputed goal to nothing. Eight of the Christchurch team played agiinet Auckland, but East Chri-tchurch w»s considered only pood taough to have one man in that tram. The excitement was great, and there wore thousands of people in Cranmer Square, where the match was played in consequence of Lancaster Park being flooded. Mr J. H. M. Ja-nbren returned to tiwn ye*'erd»y with a 1-irge quantity of the socalled diamonds. The Koh i-noir nnd Pioneer directors have resolved to send a quantity Homo to Kelsey, Bnd bare t*)rir market Ttlue tested and baro tbem told if possible. Dcnediv, Sept. 8. Another new steamer for the Westport Coal Company has sniled from Glasgow. Whilit engaged in dredging in the upper barber tbil afternoon, the men employed on the Prieetman dredge picked up tbe body of a young man named Snow. The deceased had been employed by Mr Patrick, butcher, sad w»ii found n.issing at the time of hie employer's return from Australia, about n fortnight ego. Snow was recently married. It is believed to be a ensn of suicide, induced by Snow having ombezzled. Thr Bev. Mr Murkie's funeral to-day was largely attended. Sept. 9. Major Barker, if tho Sulvalion Army, is to »rriv" from Victoria on Mor.dny niaht. a'ul on Wvdnrsdoy night, in Ihn Qui-en'* Thiatre, a grnnd rervmnny of prefentation o' roleis •n the DutieiHn mnilinsent. will IrVp pla'-e