INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2919, 31 January 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

I'Pbbss Association Tbl'rgbasis.] Awckland, Jan. T 3O: The inquest on the body of Fred. K. Bunkley, of Tasmania, resulted m a Terdict of " found dead." Deceased had apparently been getting down a cliff to the beach, and hud i'allen half-way down. Only two small bmUes were noticeable on the body. ; ; At Bussell, Bay of Islands, a Company is being started to carry on the industry of fish presorving. 11 GrUBOBNE, Jan. 30. The South Pacific bore is now down 400 feet, and; has got beyond, the rock and into quartz, which contains quantities of pyrites. During the last 80 feet, oi has been brought up m considerable quantities. The news caused some interest m Gisborne. i • : NBT^PIttXOTJTH, J an> **0- ;. A; meeting, largely, attended, was held last night m the Town Hail, for the purpose of appointing a Committee 'io co-operate with the ( Auckland Chamber of - Cominerco and Haw'era and Patea Boroughs and the County Councils, for the purpo:-e~ of watching the interests of the Taranaki district m connection with the trunk line oi: railway. Hesolutionj were passed, and the Committee were requested to urge on Government the necessity of securing the services of Mr C. Donkin, 0.E., who knew, the district thorouglily, ns it would save. both time and money m tho exploration. , Wbedihgton, Jan. 30. Messrs Muir and Co., the. owners of the Waipawa block, about 35 miles from Gisborne, 1 have to-day signed a lease to a Christohurcli syndicate, representing anew company, with £60,000 capital, to bore for oil on the property. . .'.■••; . i, lie Abbotsford Station, m the Wairarapa district; was sold by auction to-day. The estate comprised 2799 :vcrcs, and wiis purchased by Mr James Oattpll for £8000. , :■ N&TIBB, Jan. 30. l*he first day of the; riun fair was held today. : Partly owing to tie enormous number of, sheep from all parts of the colony which we>» yarded, and partly, perhaps, to the scarcity of money, the prices obteinod were not equal to the average of past yeait. Tho top price was .75 . guinea for a ram bred by Mr T Tanner* One o£ ~itsr, Hardy's .brought 60 guineas ; three 50 guineas, and one of the N. 15. and A Jjj Company 42 guineas. Locally br«d sheep ,vrere ; m the ascendant, but Menlove's and Fred. Button's (Southland) sheep will not be sold vntpl r, to-morrow. -Mr M. R. Miller and Messrs Hoadley and Lyon wote tbf. auctioneers. |. . i , IChe insurances on the part of Wilding and Boll's nulls, destroyed yueterday, were — £500 m the New Zealand, and £250 m the Union. 'By reverting to an old disused rulo m the me asurement of logs by rail the Boilwoy Department has increased carrying rales by thirty per cent, so this may aliut up the large miljs if not altered; Hitherto the same measurements as ate iised m, buying and selling have been adopted. The 'difference to one aawmiller alone wQI be £1200 a year. Thetown millß, which, ciiiefly use logs, cannot rasse their prices, as the country mills still send sawn timber to to vn at the same rates. , WItI.TK&TOW, Jan. SO; 1 " A shock of earthquake was felt at 1.10 o'ldock this morning. Most of the horses engaged for the Wei- j lington races are nowhere. Vanguard sjiill i retains hie- foriuepposit! an forihe Chip. ■ " '' ; Charles, A,. Watson.'iias been sentenced to twelve/ months' imprisonment for indeennt exposure to three young ladies who worei divring through. Carturton., This is Ms: second conviction for a similar offence. WatBOn has been a nuisance to the town for some time. He was also charged with assaulting a lady who was riding; home, in thojeVening, but the evidence was not conclusive, though m wai ! seen near the after fcha assault was committed. 3leiihbiii, Jan. 30. At the enquiry re Rankia and A.ckroyd'B fire, the jury returned p, rerdicfc that .the fire originated m the show-room, bofrlMW-' or by what means, there was 90 evidence t<- show. Gppxmooth, Jan. 30. - Quite a novel feafcußi m. educational difficulties cropped up here to-day> A few days ago Seabrook and _Am«tt, builders, got threo judgment against the Education Board foe arrears for tho erection of school buildings for T'bich cheques- hnd h>eu given-fiTe months ago. Besides thiftlie-y are owed bj tio Board £320, some <if . it having ibeen owing, 20 months. . All : this work was publicly tendered for, and 75 per cent was to ;bo paid m, progress payments, of , which tho contractors received co thing. For several j days attempts wero made to put bailiffs m tko, Education Board office^ and take possession of books and stationery) tut without avail, and to-day the, bailiff walked into, the Statq school, and now a man is m possession, the children being sent homo early m ,fcne afternoon. ■ The cqntractcirs waited „jiipon Sir Osborne Gibbs, tho representative of J;no Government who was, ,88nt to the Coast oh' thia matter, and ha suts that he could not promise the debts '.'wonlp. be liquidated before Parliament met, and that then they would probably have to wait, another fivo months. Besides all this the contractors now havo contracts m hand for tho Board amounting to £600. ■■,'■■-'■'■■ CirELSTonnaaH, Jivn. 30. Matches are arranged for next week ber s l.ween tho Christohurcji and Dunedin Bowling ■Clubs, also-with the Vjotoritin playars-..-. : The criminal cases tried m the Resident Magistrates' Court during 1883 were _ males 21462, females 432. Tlio civil cases. numbered *278, of which 2041 ' were heiird. The: sued for was £41,945. tTndgmenU■were given for £19,83+. '"■'■'■-' -■ ',-~<~..\~ ■ , The New Zealand Shipping Company have iweived the following cable message ir"London, January i;)th. lonio loft -Plymouth for Wellington on 28th at noon. Delayed by gales." ...... , .. . Dtoedin, fan. SO. Mrs Gilkinsou died Juddenly this morning. Captain Cnuckshan);, of tlio Mat aura, hiia lieen presented with a gold chronometer. ' / Tho half-yearly miMting- qf thflj Coloniiil Bank was held tb-jlay. Tho report iracominended a dividend at' tho rate of seven pur (ient, arid 'it -was ' adopted. 'The Hou. G. MoLean .was oleuted to tho directordto m JJlaoe'of the Hon. W> H. Keynoldi. . ' • The yearly-report 1 of the Coffee Pslaee Comj»ny shows an; excess of expenditure over income of £188 14s sd, which;. %vith deprooin-' lion at the rate of ten per cent, throws the balance of £608 4« ■£& to tho diibit side of profit and loss.' The Company thus baVo to oall on the proprietor of tho for his guarantee of £800 per year. „ Tlio Victorian bowlcaro paid a Hying, visit fco hhe Lake district .yesterday. Th<iy reached at 4 p.m. and at once proceaded r *s the head of tho lake, returning to Queenitown at 11 p.mV At^four o'clock this moniiae they -wont ovor toATrowtowrivjind at ten o'olock were- on theh-t/ay back to Invorcargill. They fortunately had tolerably good weather. To-morrow thoy play : at Invorcarj^lli and on Friday they return tt> ' Dunodin en route for the North': ; ■'•'•■■. ■ ■■-' : ■ The Freathought Association oelebratod Tom Paino's AnnivOrstry to-night by a conoort and ball. Mr Olfctrlos Bright doliverud iniddros*.' "•' ■- '■' " "•