INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2904, 14 January 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Pbess Association Tklessam.! Auckland, Jan.~l2. At the inquest on David Tusee, i, gumdiggor, supposed to have been accidentally poisoned, a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. The deceased had been drinking heavily. A special meeting of the Harbor Board is called for Tuesday to consider the question of the Engineers report on the Citlliope graving doe*, ' and to dispose of tenders received for its construction. From rumors current m town, tho Commissioner's recommendation will bo that the Board ihould employ anothor Engineer to draw up plant) and specifications, prior to calling for .fresh tenders. The Wangarei Northern Jockey Club .races took place to-day, and were well attended. Jan. 13. Captain Brotherton and Dr Meuzios, of tho Triumph, left for the south m tho Takapuna. , ■ • , >_ The Australia brought tho following cargo : — For Auckland— B67 cases salmon, 208 oases canned fruit, 1338 bags, bone meal, 35 cases and 20 bales hops, 15 bales brown corn, 30 flasks quicksilver, and 4 crates quills. New Plymouth, Jan. 12. Bishop Redwood arrived by the Botorua this morning to Icy tho foundation stone of a large convent on Sunday. He wan escorted through the town by the brass bund, Patsa, Jun. 12. At the inquest on Stephen Wilson, a vj rdict of uccidonUil death was roturnpd. Wanoanui, Jan. :i2. i At tho sitting of tho Police O-ourt this morning a settlor named Thomax Hollywood was fined £1(J for cruelly ill-treating a' Jwwo by over-riding. The evidenco went to.ljjiow that the defendant was drunk, and rodci the horse, an old race* named Astronomer to such an oxtout that it fell down from pure exhaustion. Its logs wore tornbiy swollen, and one of tho back tehdons was burst right through, and the .aides of tho poor l>mto laoeratod with tho stirrups. The man was seen hitting- the horao over the head with a riding whip to mevkb him go when ho could hardly move. , Wellington., Jan. 12. Information hod been received of a fflro having occurred on Mossrs Riddiford .5: Son's station, Xast coast, resulting m tho total destruction of shearing shod, stables, cowhouse, and yards, nnd 14 Dales of wool. Tlio firo occurred about two o'clock on Thursday morning. Tho insurances were — Imperial, £1000 on building. Tho New Zealand Oompiuiy will loso about £200 on the 16 bales of wool burned. Tho Kew Zealand loan of £1,000,(00, being tho second million under tho £4,000,000 Loan Act, has been covered. The AgentGeneral telographs that the whole loan las bocn placed above par. There wore 000 Lendors, fho total amount tendered for being' 66,070,000. Tenderers at £100 5b 6d rccoiro 54por cent, the remainder being placed above hat price. •■...■ ■*■...'. Tho public accounts for tho quarter oiicpd December 31st ahovr tho ordiuary rmouuc —

otnl, £1,197,337 lGs 7d; expenditure, '865,481 3s 3d ; balance, £331 ,856 13a 4d ; jand Fund receipts, £153,359 1b 4H ; expenliture, £65.830 16s 5d ; balance, £87,628 4s Id. GBETitotTTH, Jan 13. Instructions hare been received to cease all rorking at the Westport Colliery Company's nino at Wallsond, ■where four-15-ton boflfrs md two 75-horse-power engines are on th» pound, and. about 50 n.en are employed. It is understood a deadlock has occurred . between miners at Tavlorville and tbeOorern- ■ nent. On Saturday Mr Commissioner Greenfield, for a second time, offered by auction the lenses of a number of sections on the railway reserve, on which coalminers bare been squatted for years, but the miners were combined, and not a single bid was made. The rent of the sections would average about one shilling per week each, which the men say is too much. They want to purchase the freehold, but the Government decline to Bell.'. £12,00' i worth of gold was shipped by the Mahinapna on Saturday for the Union and National Banks. Hokitika, Jan. 13. xhe steamer Kangaroo passed this port yesterday from Caswell Sound, bound north, and signalled ashore that she had 160 tons of marble on board. The Mayor, Mr W. R. Fowler, has been elected a Governor of the Hokitika High School Board by the Borough Council. CnBiSTCHtTBcn, Jan. 13. Ihe weather, which for some days has been warm and summer like, is now (5 p.m.) cold ana showery. • ■• i ™, «... Dunbotn, Jan. 13. The Primitive Methodist Conference lias considered the proposed basis ef union of the Methodist Churches m New Zealand, and a resolution has been carried by 22 to 3 adopting heartily the basis of union agreed to by the Committee m Christchurch last July, as embodying a fair and workable constitution, meeting the needs of Methodism m New Zealand. ; A largo gathering of Presbyterian Sunday School children took place m the Garrison Hall to-day. They -were addressed by Captain Braithwaitc, of the missionary schooner Dayspring, and a New Hebrideao mission teacher niwoed Ta. His Excellency the Governor, tho members of the Harbor Board, the Mayor, and others, went dov.-n the harbor yesterday. The trip was of a private nature. H.M.S. Espiegle arrived at Port Chalmers yeaterday. Donald Dinnie and Hudson are to wrestle for a wager m the Queen's Theatre on Tuesday night. The second mate and one of the seamen of tho fcamh W. Hunt will leave Dunedin Hospital to-morrow. The captain would pay their passage to Lyttelton if they would return to the vessel, but they refuse, and having nc money they have applied to the American Consul, Mr Driver, out he says he can do nothing for them. Their clothes and belonging-.} are on the schooner m Lyttelton.