INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3280, 1 April 1885, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Auckland, March 31. The Government Insurance Board purchased Shera Bros, premises m Queen street, with a frontage of 42 feet for £19,0. 0. Mr Napier, counsel for Sheeban accused of the Ca^tletownroche murders, does not Downy, with the prisoner, expect to catch the Ruapehu. . . ■ ■ . . . The Australia left for San Francisco this afternoon, with 197 passengers, including 68. from Auckland. Among the latter are Mr Ashbury, ex-M.P. for Brighton, and Lord Elphinstone. _ The Auckland Agricultural and Mercantile Company have declared an 8 per cent dividend. . Mr Bryce is now m Auckland to give evidence before the Commission which is appointed to take evidence m the libel case Bryce v. Rusden. Judge F. D. Fenton and the Hon. Mr Tole have been appointed Commissioners to act on behalf of Rusden, and Mr Bryce has appointed Mr James Russell and tho Hon. F. Whitaker. The Post and Telegraph Offices and the Pukekahoe Railway Station were burglaried last night. The safe was unsuccessfully attempted. Wellington, March 31; It is notified m to-night's Gazette that cock pheasants and Californian quail may be taken or killed within the South Canterbury district, consisting of the Counties of Geraldine, Waimate, and Mackenzie, from the Ist of May to the 31st of July, and further that native game (excepting tuis) may be taken or killed within the said district from Ist April to the 31st of July. It is also notified that •white herons and crested .crebes ; shall not ba taken or killed m the colony. Navigation regulations issued by the Viceroy of India appear m the Gazette, but the subject of them has already been cabled from Melbourne. . To-day the Government recowed a cable message, from the Agent-General' m connect tion with the Federation Enabling Bill. The message stated that the Agents- General had had an interview with Lord Derby, and had decided as follows -.—Clause 3 of the Bill will frobably be reinstated, with amendments, n Clause 5 an amendment will be introduced that the number of members of the Council shall only be increased at the request of. the Legislature. In Clause 15 a sub-section will be similarly: amended. In Clause 26 the second amendment, relating to expenses, is to be omitted. Clause 30 is to be retained. Donald Cbisholm, a grocer, was to-day fined 40s for a breach of the Sales of Poisons. Act ..by selling "Rough on Rats" ■without restriction. The Island Bay Park Company has been voluntarily wound up, and another Company is to be formed to be culled the Island Bay Park Racing and Coursing Company (Limited), with a capital of £20,000, m £1 shares. The Colonial Secretary's Bill, dealing .with the reconstitution of the Legislative Council, simply limits the time for which members are nominated. The Bill will be introduced into the Council early m the session, but the time to which a seat is limited has not yet been decided by Government. Mr Buokley is drafting a lengthy Charitable Aid Bill, which will, it is understood, embody the principle of .Eills now m force m England and Canada. Chbistchubch, March 31. The District Drainage Board to-night do cided to discharge all their officers except the Engineer, to give up their offices, and make arrangoments for the local bodies to collect the rates. These steps are necessary on account of the Board's financial position, ■which at present is about £2000 a year to the bad.