INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 3198, 26 December 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Pbess Association Tblkoeams.) Aucklaxd, Dec. 24. J. S. Gibbons' sawmill bas been burned down at Otara Creek. It was insured for £800. The Union Bank of New Zealand was Gned the lowest penalty of £50 for a technical breach of the Mining Machinery Act m not renewing the license held by the Bank for crushing. A prisoner named Edward Murphy, sentenced to four months for larceny, has escaped from the hard labor working party which wns m charge of a warder clearing the grounds of tho Supremo Court. It has been ascertained that Sheehan the suspected murderer has had £365 to his credit m the Bank of New Zealand since his arrival hero, nnd that he allowed it to remain on deposit till he had purchased a farm. Captain John Jacobs, who commanded the three-masted schooner Osproy, writes thus to the Herald : — " If the Claimant arrived m Jlelbourne m 1854 after being picked up at sea, it mutt have been by some other Osprey. It certainly never could have been by tho one I was m, as she went into tho consting trade after I left her." The steamer Clansman is to make an excursion to Norfolk Island on the 18th January. A foot race of 125 yards has been arranged between Pickering, of Auckland, and Woods, of Dunodin, for £25 a fide, for the 7th of January. The Auckland Cricket Association are m receipt of a telegram from tho Nelson oriokcters, who have decided not to include Auckland m their tour. Wakoantji, Dec. 24. A Wellington coxnmission agent named J. Bell Williamson was found m the avenue last night with his leg broken m two places just above the ankle. Wellington, Doc. 24. Hnymnn, the hangman, was disohargad on the charge of burglary, and bis companion, Apuronr., a Maori, was committed for trial. Government havo accepted the tender of Messrs Sparrow and Co., of Dunedin, for tha largo iron viaduct at Wingatiri, on the Otago Central line. The Oazelte notifies that tho Queen has expressed her approval that tho Members of tho Into Ministry should retain the title o£ Honorable. The Ton. Archdeacon Thorpe, who has resigned his incumbency, wa» to-day presented with a. purso of 175 sots, by his parishioners. A large number of Salvationists left for Ohrietchnreh to-day to take part m the approaching congress thore. Government having fully considered the rates at which thoy can afford to carry grain with reasonable profit within the flat districts on the O&ntarbury plains and the district* north, pf Oamaru, and having regard to the lew suitained by the cartag* competition,

have determined to revise the railway tari to the following extent :— The classified rah will remain as at present up to eight mile! from eight to sixteen miles the rates will I the present rate for eight miles, and beyon that distance the present rates will be reduce Is 6d per ton. The only other materii alteration m the Canterbury district is th special rate of Is per ton for all goods sec from wharves to the shed m Lyttelton fc Customs examination. The Gazette notifies the appointment c Mr Geo. Roberts, of Christchurch, as Justice of the Peace, and that Mr Bichar A. Barker has been elected a Commissions of the Timaru Hospital. CHBiSTCirCBCH, Dec. 25. Tho Salvation Army opened a great de monstration or "congress" today. A pro cession of about 700 soldiers from all parts o the colony, with six bands, marched throng the streets. The proceedings were mos orderly. Major Howard, from England, con ducted the services. An extraordinary gineral meeting of th New Zealand Shipping Company was held to day, Mr J. L. Coster m the chair. The reso lution passed at a meeting on December lOtl was confirmed. Mr Coster announced tha the directors had decided on making tw< small calls, one of lOs per share on January 31st, and another of 10s later on. DinrßDiN, Deo. 25. One hundred and twenty-five passengers left by the night train to Christchurch, anc about fifty for intermediate stations. The Otago team of cricketers left by this train. Mr Nancarrow, Chief Inspector of Machinery for the colony, was presented with a portrait m oils of "himself to-night by Mr Sf cCaig, Chief Engineer of the Rotomahans, on behalf of the marine engineers of the colony. The Premier having advised the Land Board that under the existing law an inquiry into the suspected dummyism at Tuapeka West cannot take place at Lawrence, it has been decided to hold it m Dunedin m the ordinary way. The Commissioners will make an inspection of the land m the district beforehand. The Harbor Board has decided to take no steps m regard to the construction of the eastern breakwater at the heads at present. There U no news from Port Molyneux, where the Bey. Morice was drowned, later than lost night. Mrs Morice was then m a half unconscious state, but was expected to recover. It turns out that Mr Morice, his wife and eldest boy, were bathing together, and Mrs Morice getting into deep water, her husband sent the boy to the Maori Koik for assistance. A Maori lad went m, and at one time had a hold of both of them, but a rope being thrown to him from the beach, he let go of Mr Morice to grasp it, and the latter was drowned. His body came ashore m twenty minutes or so.