INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3276, 27 March 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Auckland, March 26. Owing to reductions m WBges by the Auckland Tobacco Company, a number of imported cigar makers from Sydney and Melbourne are returning there. Ihaka Tcnainaha was married at Russell yesterday to Miss Lucy Martin, by tho Bey. Mr Gould. After the ..ceremony the party adjourned to the Pacific Hotel, where breakfast was laid out for 50 Europeans and 'natives. The Native Minister sent a congratulatory telegram. At a meeting of tho Auckland Native Land Colonization Company, a resolution was passed that tho Company should be wound up. The only tender received by Captain Helander for the floating of the Thomas Russell from Oreti Point and delivering m a dock was that of Mr D. Gouk for £4300. He has not yet decided whether or not this tender will be accepted. The daughter of James McQuirck, aged seven, has been drowned m a creek at Hapi. A project is on foot to establish a woollen manufacturing company m Auckland with a capitnl of £5000, and a directorate embracing gentlemen from all centres of population m the North Island. Some dressmakers and tailors were to-day fined for breaches of the Employment of Females Act. Hatveba, March 26. The perjury case Corkill v. Hutchison, solicitor, was dismissed, the Bench holding there was no stain whatever on Mr Hutchison's character. Wellington, March 26. The reduction m the Audit Office involves the retirement from service of all officers m the revenue branch. The question of appointing an officer of rank to command tho Volunteers of the colony will be settled m a day or two. The Minister for Defence will confer -with the Governor as to the selection. A start has been made with the erection of the Exhibition buildings. The contract time is three months, and the contractors have received notice that fines will be strictly enforced for non-completion within that period. Two hundred and seventy Volunteers from Wellington will be present at the Easter encampment at Nelson. Chbistchubch, March 26. The secretary to the Christchurch Bicycle Club has received nine entries from Dunedin for the races to be held m Lancaster Park on Easter Monday. Great preparations have been made for the fete to be held to-morrow m aid of the sufferers from earthquakes m Southern Spain. The Lyttelton Harbor Board have decided that the import wharfage charge shall, m future, only be levied on general merchandise, and no charge made for re-shipment on goods that have paid inward wharfage. They intend to represent to the Government that the Railway Department charges for loading and transhipping goods are still too high and out of all proportion to the trade of the port. . Dunedin, March 26. The following resolution was carried at the Harbor Board to-day — " That the magnitude of the operations of the Board, and the large amount of plant employed m their works department, render it necessary that the entire time of the Engineer be devoted to these matters, and that the Board therefore take the necessary steps to secure such services with as little delay as possible." At present the Engineor is allowed private practice. The " Silver King " has already appeared nine nights at the Princess Theatre. It has been witnessed by upwards of twelve thousand peraonß, and has evoked the greatest enthusiasm. The Bey. Jas. dimming, Inspector of the North Canterbury Education Board, died here to-day. He arrived m Dunedin a week ago, and had only been confined to bed three days m his hotel. He has not been m good health for some time.