INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3773, 4 November 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) . Auckland, Nov. 3. Sflveral persons here have won considerably on Arsenal's Cup victory. The Arawata brings news that tlio volcanic disturbance at Minafoto, Tonga, had subsided, but that tho new volcanic island recently formed there was in an active state of eruption. A breakfast, to which 150 sat down, took place this morning in connection with the opening of the Young Men's i Christian Association buildings. The i manager of the Bank of .New Zealand i presided. • The engineer of the Harbour Board ha3 reported that the cost of dredging a 1 steamer passage and erecting a wharf in ■ Shoal Bay would be £12,000. The effect > would be to give direct communication • between Auckland and the Lake Taka- ; puna district. It is thought probable that the Takapuna Road Board or the Waitemata County Council will contribute 7 to the cost. I The Tarawera took the Arawata'a Sydt ney cargo at Russell, and left this aftery noon for Sydney. „ The District Engineer has returned from a trip through the King Country inspect- ■ ing the progress work along the Main • Trunk Railway, and reports that every- > thing is going satisfactorily. The first 18 3 miles will bo completed in six weeks, and . will be open for traffic soon afterwards, j The tunnel contract is progressing as well as can be expected. B The Auckland Cricket Association ha3 ' resolved to play 22 against the Australians, and have re-considered the terms . for a match, offering an alternative of e two-thirds of the net proceeds. j Wellington, Nov. 3. I, The Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral ■, and Agricultural S jciety's show was held , at Carterton to-day. The show is a most 3 successful one, there being 480 entries in i. all classes. About 500 people left for T Oarterton this morning to attend the 5" Wairarapa Agricultural and Pastoral e Show. " Samuel DesForges, the debtor who was imprisoned for negligence in keeping >1 books, has been released on a writ of ■ e habeas corpus on the ground of irregular commitment. '■ Those Maori prisoners who were senII tenced to a month's imprisonment at the II last criminal sessions, were released toll day looking all the better for their in- . carceration. Te Whiti has still two ,f months to serve. i. Nelson, Nov. 3. 9 Tho Education Board to-day accepted the resignations of all the members of the ;. town School Committee, who have resigned in order to appeal to the rate,f payers on the question of granting the use of the schoolroom beforo school hours for d religious instruction. The Board also expressed approval of the principle of an T interchange of Inspectors, but were 0 desirous not to part with the present Inspector. 0 Blenheim, Nov. 3. The Clarence bridge is expected to be finished in a month's time for pedestrians j and horses, but not for wheeled traffic until the road is made on the Kaikonra 1 side. The bridge is completed except the planking .covering the last span on the '■ north side. Information has been received here of ~ a serious outbreak of scab on the Hopej field run, Waiau river, in the Amuri district. A flock of between four and five thousand were clean since January, 1884, and the whole of the Amuri was declared clean last year. Dunedin, Nov. 3. j The proposed amalgamation of Sar- ' goods with Ross and Glondining's business has fallen through. None of the public were gainers over Arsenal's win, the local bookmakers never having written him.