INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3274, 25 March 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

t (By Telegraph.) Auckland, Maroh 24. f The s.s. Manapouri arrived from Sydney . this morning. His Excellency the Governor is a passenger by ber.

Leonora aiid Tigredia have been scratched for the Eaeter Handicap. A Berious fire broke out this afternoon m Winisand Hall's furniture manufactory, • Shortland ,-street. The stock was mostly destroyed or damaged by fire and water, and the top part of the factory was gutted. The insurances on tbe building are £1000 m the New Zealand and £100 m the Northern ; on the stock— in the Royal £800, Union £700, and Northern £100. The fire was accidentally caused.— The residence of Alex. Sutherland, the well-known jockey, at Ellerslie, was burned early this morning. The family escaped with difficulty m their night-clothes. The house was insured for £500, oflice not known. Sutherland was away at Taranaki. The Austrian corvette Saida, 11 guns, Captain Fayinz, will ahortly visit Auckland, thence going to Samoa and Fiji. John Laird and a Maori named Toby were drowned off Wangarei Heada through the capsizing of thoir boat. The Governor ia ataying at the Northern Club. He leaves m the Hinemoa for Wellington to-morrow. Sir W. L. Reea commenced hiß lecturing tour through New Zealand last night at the Theatre Royal on " Land, Labor and Capital." Mr Roycroft, President of the Trades and Labor. Council, presided. About two hundred were present, and an unanimous voto of thanka was passed. He has a plan fully drawn out of a Joint Stock Company, to be called ." The New Zealand Co-operative Land and Labor Company." The returning Volunteer representatives from Wellington were banqueted last night. The healths of the champions were drunk with enthusiasm. Major Shepherd, the , officer commanding the district, presided. Frederiok Lintott was drowned through the capsizing of his boat m a squall at . Otamatia, Kaipara. Wanganui, March 24. The trial at tho Supreme Court of McLellan v. McLellan (divorce caee) is not finished, and is likely to last all day to-morrow. The bodies of the men drowned at tho ' Heada yeßterday have not been recovered. Wellington, March 24. Owing to the very unsatisfactory manner m which railway material is shipped from Home, the Government have decided to Bend , no further orders to England except for ' articles which cannot be locally manufactured, i Mr Allison Smith, of the Addington Railway Workahops, is at present m Wellington conferring with the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, with reference to a large order for railway material, estimated at £22,000, which would have been sent Home, but it has now been decided to distribute the work among ' the various Government workshops. The designs of all largo bridges havo been altered m order to allow all necessary work m connection with them being made m the colony. The Governor returna to Wellington on ■ Thureday evening. i The Colonial Secretary is expected to arrive r here from the West Coast to-morrow night. At the Resident Magistrate's Court Jacob Frankel, a dealer m second-hand articles, ( was committed for trial for receiving stolen articles. A few days ago Belcher, an em- , ploye m the Education Department, was con- • victed of stealing some prize-books, the pro- '■■ perty of the Government, and it was proved they were sold to the accused, who made little or no enquiries regarding them not--1 withstanding they bore the Government ' stamp. Bail was allowed. i The extended time for receiving applica- • tions for space m the general branch of the , New Zealand Exhibition closes on the 31st' inst. A Consolidated Land BiU will be among [ the Government measures of next session. It is now being drafted, and m addition to con- . eolidating the existing land laws will give increased powers m regard to special settlement and other matters. About one o'clock this morning an unoccupied cottage near the old Pioneer Hotel at Carterton was burned down. The fire had a firm hold before it was discovered. Nothing ' could be done to save it. As smoke was seen . issuing from a carpenter's workshop a sliort distance from the burning building, the door was burst open and fire waa found travelling , up the weatherboards m a corner, where, on the floor, the remains of paper and shavings s were plainly vieible. There was no fire m i any other part of the workshop, or anything inflammable near the fire m that room, but the floor of the next room was covered with shavings. Everything outside waa aaturated from the heavy rain, and no doubt the fire m the workahop waa started on thc floor. Both buildinge had been unoccupied for a long time. They are insured, and belong to Mr Joseph Ingley. , Mrs Bmith, wife of Mr Smith, Chief Officer of the steamer Mawhera, died suddenly last night. She retired to bed m her usual \ health, and on her daughter proceeding to call her this morning, life was found to'be extinct. A post mortem examination has been made. Drs Grabham and Giles have conducted an enquiry into the admittance of the girl Kelly, [ the puerperal patient, into ' the Hospital. t - The evidence of Drs Fell, Chilton, and McKellar, and Mrs Kissling, a nurse, were taken. Their report willbe drawn up to-morrow, and forwarded to tlie Premier. .It is expected that unless something unl turnal occurs, Parliament will be called i together for the despatch of bueiness about . the latter end of May, or the first week m j June. i Subject to the approval of Parliament on . the one side, and shareholders m the Com- . pany on the other side, terms hare been r arranged between the Government and tlie ' Directors of the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company (Limited), by which the 1 Government will take over the railway. It 1 is stated that the Government propose to re--1 eume possession of the Company's land grants on payment of a rato equal to about ten shillings per acre, and to refund to the Com- • pany the amount of its actual expenditure on the railway line, without intereat, on the cost of financing, etc., the Company retaining the , Thorndon reclamation except 'such portions [ ac may be required for purposes of railway. , Altogether it is expected that this will return to the shareholders all their money, with a little more than interest thereon. Ab the transfer of the Railway Company's property to the Crown will greatly enhance the value of the Company's dobentnres, the Government have within the last week or two purohased m London, at current rates, all the debentures they have been able to get, and about one-half of the total of £45,000 has been thus bought up. A draft agreement between the Government and the Company ia now being prepared. Mr Chatfield, architect for the new Opera , Houae here, left for Melbourne yesterday. He will consult with Messrs Williamson, Garner and Musgrove, and Messrs Henninga ' and Gordon, scenic artists, with respect to the latest modern improvements m laying the Btage and arrangement of scenery. The 88th birthday of the Emperor William was celebrated here by the German residents by a sooial gathering. _At the City Police Court to-day, James Wilson was fined £40 for evasion of the Beer Duty Act. Nelson, March 24. I Mr R. T. Booth, leader of the Blue Ribbon movement, closed a most successful mission ! m Nelson City, during which 1420 new ' pledges were taken, includingsorao prominent citizens and olergymen. Presentations have | been made to Mr Booth by citizens and others. He speaks m the country districts and leavea for Chriatchurch on April 2nd. Dunedin, March 24. The Otago Daily Times and Witness Company haa declared a dividend of 8 per ' cent. The Wairarapa came right up to Dunedin to-day. She is lit up with tho electric light to-night. Sir Julius Vogel's addrees m Dunedin has been put off till Monday evening next m consequence of the Garrison Hall being engaged on Saturday night. The Hon. Mr Lamach left this afternoon on his trip round the Otago goldfields. He is accompanied hy Mr V. Pyke, M.H.R. The inhabitants of the Flat have subscribed sufficient money to retain the services of a lawyer to prosecute the Flemings, who are charged with cruelty to their children. A procession paraded South Dunedin and Kensington to-night, with the effigies of Mr and Mrs Fleming affixed on long poles. The Police stopped the proceedings. The pro- . ceesionißts afterwards burnt the effigies. ■ Invbbcabgill, March 24. Mr Vaile addressed a meetiug here to*

night on hia scheme of railway reform, and waa accorded a respectful hearing and a vote '. of thanks. The attendance was not so -large as it might have been, but Mr Vaile came unI expectedly, and the meeting did not reoeive sufficient publicity.