INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1768, 31 May 1895, Page 3

INTERPROV INCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND. May 30. At a meeting of builders the following resolution was unanimously passed— " That the Premier be respectfully requested to invite the Auckland builders to compete by public tender for the reerection of the Auxiliary Asylum nt Auckland against the co-opeuiiive system either by schedule or otherwise." In reference to the native trouble at Galatea, Mr Hone Heke, M.H.R., received a telegram telling him to come to Te Whaiti at once. In accordance ■with the request, Mr Hone Heke intends proceeding to Galatea. Henry Sloan for robbery from a dwelling, and Henry Christopher Smith for assault on a woman, were committed for trial. WELLINGTON, May 30. Waters, charged with bigamy, wns before the court this morning. TheS.M. said that he was not sure that he had jurisdiction, the alleged offence being committed m England, and after some evidence was taken the case was adjourned. Last night an intoxicated man named Steele amused himself shying stones about Manners Street and speedily cleared the thoroughfare. Two constables hearing of it came up an i one of them received a stone which cut through his shako and laid open his forehead. Steele got six weeks this morning for his freak. Another action arising out of the collision between the fishirg boat and the Orawaiti was determined to-day, on behalf of a lad, son of McKinstry. £550 damages was claimed, and the jury awarded £10. The Tariff Commission's report will be handed m to-morrow. In four months the Commissioners travelled 3000 miles and examined 475 witnesses. The report occupies 14 sheets of foolscap print and the evidence 500 ditto. Private telegrams received from Western Australia announce the death nt Fremantle on Sunday last of Mr F. "W. Martin, Assistant Engineer of that colony. Mr Martin was well known on the West Coast, where he was engineer m charge of Westland after Mr C. "Y. O'Connor. Mr Martin broke down from overwork, and was granted three months' leave of absenqe, during which he revisited New Zealand at the beginning of the year, and while m Wellington expressed himself as feeling much better for the change. NELSON, May 30. A combined meeting of Temperance bodies was held last night under the presidency of the Rev George Bond. A divisional prohibition league was formed for the Nelson province, the idea being to fall into line with other parts of the colony. A platform was adopted similar to that of Canterbury. OHRISTCHURCH, May 30. After a long and at times acrimonious discussion the Lyttelton Harbour Board to-day negatived by seven votes to five votes two amendments providing respectively that the Ofcago Harbour Board's dredge should be engaged for two months, and from month to month, and decided to affix the seal of the Board to the new charter for reengaging the Iredge for six months. DUNEDIN, May 30. Sir P. Buckley visits Mr McKenzie at his home to-night.