INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2825, 12 October 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Peh Pekss Association.] Auckland, Oct. 11. Some sensation -was caused this afternoon by an assault on Sir J. D. Wickham, proprietor of Iho Free Lance, by Dr Harrison, agent for Mrs Dr Potts. Wickham -was m his office Bhortly before four o'clock, -when Dr Harrison came m and enquired if he published the L'Entr'Aete m connection with the theatre, and being answered m the affirmative, enquired the price per inch of an advertisement. Some conversation ensued concerning the insertion of the notice m question, and Dr Harrison then asked the name of the writer of a lettor signed " Figaro," published m VEntr'Acle. Wickham declined to furnish the information required, when Dr Harrison recommended him to take off liis coat, as he would have to fight him. Mr Wickhain explained that he had no clc<ire to make a blackguard of himself, when he was made the recipient of a sudden biow from his interviewer, and neit moment his face was covered with blood. Wickham immediately locked the door, and sending for a policeman, gave Dr Harrison m charge of Sergeant McMahon. The scene had attracted numbers of the friends of both parties, and they proceeded ogether to the police station. Wickham got i nasty cut on liis head, while his hair, face md clothe 3 ivero bespattered with blood. Lhe facts having been placed before Superineiulent Thomson, he ordered the assailant nto custody, and George Edward Harrison iiehard Cole Aspinall and James Millet were .ccordingly locked up on the charge of unawfully assaulting John Dickson Wickham iy striking him on the head on the 11th nst. Aspinall and Millet, it is asserted, kept he door closed and held Wickham while Dr larrison assaulted him. The body of Thos. Graham, drowned at Jargaville from the steamer Durham, has een recovered. He appears to have been m quor at the time. An open verdict was eturned at the inquest. JCapier, Oct. 11. The Agricultural and Pastoral Society's how concluded to-day. The show of sheep i both merinos and longwools was remarkbly fine ; southern visitors pronouncod them be finest lot yet shown m Now Zealand, Jattlo were also well represented. In horses lie show was inferior, and the display o£ roduoe and implements was miserably small, n merinos Mr Douglas McLean took the lajority of prizes. In the longwools Mr 'nnner and Mi J. Williams divided the onors. Tho Hot. S. Williams, Mr McHardy, nd Mr Ormond were the moat successful rith. cattle. Wellington, Oct. 11. The Government have received from the Jbief Surveyor at Kelson a report oa ths

Ilurumii hot springs, which was made by M F. S. Smith, assistant surveyor. Mr Smit! visited the Hurumii m Jvily lust, when h found two springs -within a distance of twent links of one another, and on a terrace on th Canterbury sido of tho river, about 73 chain above its junction with the MeKenzie creel Tlie height of the spring above the sea level i 11)70 feet, and they are 30 feet above and 25 links back from the river flat. A person oi horseback could easily proceed within tw chains of the springs. He made an examine tion of the temperature and found the wate m tho springs registered 130 degrees Fahr and half way down the rocks ove which the water falls it stood a 96. At the spot -where the wate joined the cold water stream at tin foot of the terrace it was only 45deg. Hi observations were made during frosty weather and he was of opinion there would be a uuicl higher temperature m the summer, as tin quantity of surface water draining into the springs would not be so large. Last summei he visited the springs m question, and where the spring water joined the cold stream the temperature was 80 degrees, while m the springs themselves ho could not bear his hand. The bed of the stream, where it Hows over the rocks, is colored bright yellow, pink and green. The water has the usual wet gunpowder taste and smell. It rises from tiro holes under a lon' bank of clay, about two feet high, and their united discharge is about as much as would flow through a 3-inch pipe. It was also reported that there is another spring on the southern branch o{ the Hurunui, but he did not see it. Mr Smith found a small spring coming out of the south branch of the McKenzie creek, about ten chains above the fork up the main or left-hand branch. The temperature of this water ,was 100. The smell from the spring was very strong, and could be smelt half a mile away. Mr Smith's report is accompanied by tracings showing the district. The notices with regard to the sale of Kawhia township will be issued m a few days. Mr F. E. Hamlin has resigned his appointment as Native Interpreter of the Native Land Court. Mr W. F. Wheeler has been appointed a member of the|Wellington Harbor Board. A fire broke out at tho Corporation's asphalt works, Courtney place, this morning, resulting m the gutting of the building m which concrete blocks are made. The fire originated through tar boiling over. The building was insured for £320 m the Colonial office, the amount being reinsured m equal amounts among the various Insurance Companies m Wellington. The damage is estimated at £50. This is the third or fourth time the building has been on fire. Tho ship Westland left Plymouth on August 11th for Wellington. She has on board 321 Government immigrants as follows : — Families, 137 souls ; single men, 59 ; single women, 128. Of the above 63 are for Hawke's Bay and Marlborougb, 23 for Nelson, 29 for New Plymouth, 19 for Greymouth and the remainder for Wellington. The Albion ' Mining Company at Terawhiti, which has been crushing since the Golden Crown stopped, cleanedup on Monday. The amount of stone put through was 330 tons, resulting m 30Jozs. amalgam, and lOJozs. retorted gold. The battery manager suggests that the Company should start a low level tunnel, as he is of opinion that better gold exists than has been struck at present. Tho Directors have decided to take out 50 tons of quartz from the low tunnel as a trial crushing. The N.Z.L. and M.A. Company report under date London, Oct. 9th : — The wheat market is dull. Adelaide is worth 47s and New Zealand 42s 6d per 4961b5. -New Zealand wheat of fair average quality is worth, c.i.f . off coast, 40s 6d per 4801bs. The tallow market is firm. Mutton is worth 435, and best beef 41s per cwt. The leather market is firm ; best sides are worth Hid per lb. Tho New Zealand hemp market is quiet ; fine is worth £28 per ton. CHEiSTcncßcn, Oct. 11. At the Land Board to-day, several persons applied for licenses to prespeet for gold, and one applied for a lease. The last informed the Board that he had discovered a goldhearing reef. All the applications were deferred pending the return of Mr Baker, Chief Surveyor, who has gone to the head of the Rakaia, where it is stated a reef bearing gold m payable quantities has been discovered. At a meeting m Lyttelton last night, it was resolved to carry out the regatta on January Ist, as usual. DUNEDIM, Oct. 11. At the Police Court to-day, m the charge brought by Gaoler Philips against prisoner Tait (for whom counsel appeared), for insubordinate conduct, Mr Watt, E.M., dismissed the case, on the ground that tho conduct of the prisoner could not be regarded as aggravated. Hi 3 Worship, addressing prisoner, said, "It i 3 my opinion that, a3 a matter of law, I must elismijs tho information, but if you had appeared before me m my capacity of Visiting Justice, I would have thought it my duty to punish you at once. As you are before an open Court, where I can only hear an aggravated offence, ■which is not disclosed m the charge, I dismiss the case, not on its merits, but because the charge is not sufficient to give a Resident Magistrate jurisdiction m tho case as an aggravated prison offence." A Manufacturers' Association has been, formed here. The following were adopted as the objects of the Association : — (1) Encouraging the development of the natural resources of New Zealand, and diffusing information thereon. (2) Fostering New Zealand manufactures and developing industries, so as to afford increased and steadier employment of labor. (3) Obtaining the removal of revenue duties from raw material, and also from goods which cannot be profitably made m this Colony, and placing moderate duties upon all articles which can be so made that aro now admitted free. (4) Discouraging tho suicidal policy of purchasing out of the Colony, whether by Government or by municipal or other bodies, goods which can be advantageously produced m New Zealand. (5) Keeping before Government the advantage of giving their work to firms provided with suitable plant instead of expending revenue m adding to Government workshops and machinery, thereby needlessly increasing the present heavy burdens of the taxpayers and hindering the due development of trade, a course which tends to the continuance of the present commercial depression.