INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4561, 10 June 1889, Page 3

I NTERPRO VINC I A L.

♦ (By Tklsqraph.) AUCKLAND, Jpnb 8. The North Shore Presbyterians have decided to send a call to the Key. James Hill of Jkyttelton. 'The races ure postponed till Monday m consequence of the wet weather. The barometer has fallen to-day to 28.8 which ia the lowest roadisg recorded for 22 years m Auckland. A severe westerly gale is feared. The judgment m connection with the Mailai enquiry was given to-day by'Dr Giles, B.M. Be referred to the unsatisfactory fact that the rock on which tbo Maitai struck was not definitely located. There was no evidence before the Court to justify him m saying that Captaio Dawson or his officers had been guilty of negligence. After the occurence great promptitude and calmness were shown, and no blame is attachable to any ol the officers, who were fully exonerated. EIKLDtNG, Jun-h 8. T>r Juhnstone had an arm broken yesterday ia a fracas with Jobn Davis, a settler of Kiwilea. Legal proceedings will be taken. WELLINGTON, Ji-S"a 8. There are at present 160 (?) unemployed on the Government Works against 784 last No*«mber. Of theso thoro are 1-10 m Otago. 20 m Canterbury ; +2 are encaged m road aiaking, and the rest on railway work". The statement that a double jet of tracks was noticed, after th» Kaiwarra murder, leading to and from Chemis house, i 3 scarcely correct. Thoro wore tracks, but the police are unable to say that they were more than ordinary marks. Chemis asserts that he will have no difficulty m proving an alihi. The police authorities keep any information they have discovered to themselves, and say no .more than that tho evidence has not weakened. Amongst the patents recently applied for ] m Sow Zealand IB a new plan of constructing | bres, Waters, groins, soa-walls, and roads 'through rivers, etc., invented by Mr John iewthwaito of London, formerly a Taranaki tntident. liu> invention is now being put to * practical use at Deal, and as the cO3t of the treakraters is reduced by »i*.sever.ths it is .expected to prove- both profitable and of great public utility. A syndicate is being formed to purchase the New Zealand rigtts. DTJNEDIH, Josb 9. At tho ioquesi, on the body of James Benton, who was killed by falling from a scaffold at Port Chalmers, a verdict of " accident*! death " was returned. The evidence showed that he wm so much taken up with his work tbat h» forgot where he was, and stepped nver the scaffold. About 110 names were given m on Saturday to the Tailorasses Union which is to be tf«*med as a result of the meeting on the tfweti.ing system. MriGrswford Anderson received a vite of (confident* /rom the Kaitangata portion of the ißiuce oleotc*»t.o.