INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4533, 7 May 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Bv TELEORAra.) AUCKLAND, Mav 0. Xho lluu. Mr Mitclieleon has gono tc Otarchuugii for the purpose of couforring with tho natives rolativo to tho purchase of nativo land and eottlouiont in the King Country. Tho Trades and Labour Council hare pa66fd a vate of fympathy ■with Jtt J. C.

Firth on tho closing of his eight hours mill. Mr Firth, in reply, s»ys tho failure «m not because the mill was worked on the eight hours system. Two natives, brothers, at Matota.have met with their deaths whilst out pigliunting. Tbo body of the younger brother was found jammed in the rocks about half way down a waterfall, which is at least 80 feet hi«h, and the body of the elder was found three, chains lower down tho creek. Lateb. Details of the poisoning case near Mututa state that three natives, brothers, went to hunt pigs in tho bush, and ono of them subsequently roturncd almost naked and out of his mind. He could give no information of tho others, und a search party set out, and from various traces found that tho men bad beon poisoned by eating honey from a tree, The eldest brother, I'ere, was found in a creek dead, and three chains further uwny tbo dead body of tbo other brother was also found. The Waitoa estate, of 1706 nore«, in the Waiin&te, has been leased to u settler from Victoria. PALMER9TON NORTH, Mai- 6. A daring burglary was committed here last night, when James Miller's st.re, in the Square, was broken into. The safe was taken away in a wheelbarrow, and broken open with an axo iu an open plot of ground about 100 yards from the Square. Aoout £10 in money was taken, but tho books and papers were left uninjured. The circumstances are very similar to those of the Fielding Post Office burglary. WELLINGTON, Mat 6. Parliament has been further prorogued to the 19th June, and is not even then summoned for the despatch of business. The Erenin<i Pott says :— " We understand thut Mr Fcrster Goring, who for twenty-seven years has tilled the responsible office of Clerk of the Executive Council in a most satisfactory manner, has now tendered his resignation. As the otllce is not a Civil Service ono Mr Goring is not entitled to any pension on retirement." The fire brigade, at a meeting to-night, decided to invite tbe association to hold the next conference and demonstration in Wellington. The Eastern Eltension Telegraph Corngraph have generously arranged to receive and remit free, of charge by oabls, subscriptions collected Hy local committee and others in aid of the China famine relief fund, and that the superintendent in Shanghai shall pay over to the British Consul resident there any sums of money remitted for the fund. Subscriptions may be lodged at the principal offices in New Zealand. Mr B. J. Creighton is in Wellington, and will, it is understood, have an interview with the Government concerning the San Francisco mail serr^ce. Tha centennial anniversary of the constitution of the National Assembly of France wss celebrated by a number of French residents of Wellington at the French Cousulato yesterday. At lhe Appeal Court, the first case taken was that of Williams v. the Queen, an appeal against the decision of tlio Chief Justice who held that Mr H. Williams, for many years B.M. at the Bay of Islands, and afterwards Native Land Court Judge, was not entitled to have his pension computed on his salary of £600 a year as Native Land Court Judge, but upon his salary of t!9O per annum as Resident Megiatrate. Tbe case is being argued before their Honours Mr Justice Bicbmond, Mr Justice Gillie?, Mr Justice Williams., and Mr Justice Denniston. Mr Bell appears for the appellant, and Mr Chapman for tho Queen. DUNEDIN, May 6. The report of the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company states that the profit for the year was £851. The directors recommend a dividend of 6 per cent, and after wiping of a su'n standing as preliminary eiponses, this will leave £153 to be carried forward. At a meeting of tho Exhibition Commissioners to-night the president, Mr John Roberts, complained that while the banks with headquarters in New Zealand had given the project support, the foreign banks had not moved in tbe matter. He announced that £12,250 had been subscribed, and as there had been a great difficulty in getting more shires taken up, very few outside Dunedin having subscribed, and as the Government insisted on £15,CC0, it had been decided to Uke promissory notes for tbo remainder. Theso would not be called in until the whole of the other capital had been exhausted. A number of those present gave their promises to give support in this form, the amount being about £500.