INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2497, 11 September 1897, Page 3

INTERPRO VINCI AL.

. *. (By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND, September 10. The New Zealand Crown mines, Karangahake, crushed 1567 tons of ore for bullion valued at £4163. , The proposal to raise a £150,000 loan recommended by the finance committee , of the City Council was referred back for \ further information as to the corpora- ' tion's financial position. ] A prolonged earthquake was experi- ( enced at Taupo yesterday afternoon, and slight shocks in the evening. ; The Bay of Islands County Council £ are petitioning the Minister of Public ( Works to lay out one mile of the Kawa- j kawa-Whangarei railway from Hukerenui £ northward. At the Police Court three young fel- ] lows, named Frederick Deason, Albert s Weeks alias A. Benny, and John Gun- s son, were committed for trial on a charge \ of tobacco robbery at Fort street. ( GISBORNE, September 10. } The British Empire stables, owned by ( Mr Joyce and occupied by Mr Quinn, ' were destroyed by fire. Incendiarism is 1 suspected. A jockey named George ' Robertson nearly lost his life. The in- } suvances are £300 in the Royal Office on ( the building, and £35 in the United \ Office oq the contents. The Hinemoa arrived from Mahia and sailed for Auckland. During her three * days' stay at Mahia she completed the ( soundings without finding a trace of un- < charted dangers. The diver Lloyd went { down, but failed to find the log. He J reported that the rail aft on the star- i board side had been curried away, and that it would have been dangerous to * attempt to recover , the mails, the ap- ' pliances being inadequate. ( The Bank of New Zealand has declined J to take up the account of the Harbour y Board, which the Board had resolved to < transfer from the Union Bank, on the ground that the Bank of New Zealand being guaranteed by the colony, deserved public support. NEW PLYMOUTH, September 10. The secretary of the associated sports clubs art union was fined 10s and costs i this morning, for a breach of the Act by I raffling a bicycle, etc. It was urged, in mitigation of the penalty, that every prize was a gift, and that no individual made a copper out of the art union. WELLINGTON, September 10. In local athletic circles much disappointment is felt that Patrick, the 100 yards champion, is not included in the New Zealand team for Australia, and a subscription is being raised to send him over on behalf of his club. Arrangements could not be made to detain the VV aikare for the San Francisco mail, and it will be taken on by the Rotorua, going south from Christchurch by the express to-morrow. The New Zealand Shipping Company are advised that the livestock prohibition in the Argentine has been removed. a man named M. Philips left the Awatere accommodation house, Marlborough, with a hoi'se and dray last night, and the vehicle was found this morning two miles off upset, Philips being dead under the horse. The Hinemoa has finally abandoned the search for the rock. Captain Neale states that he is satisfied that no rock exists outside the danger line. Search was made for the patent log, which it was expected would show the distance travelled from Gisborne before the wreck, but apparently it had broken away and the diver could not find it. VVork on the Midland Railway is being actively carried on to the foot of Otira Gorge. About two hundred men are engaged. Four miles are completed out of fourteen between Jackson's and that point, and it is expected that the line will be finished to the accommodation house in Otira in 18 months. Platelaying will be started at once to enable the locomotive to bring up stone for the embankments at the riverside. None of the blocks will be less than three tons. At Nelson the formation is complete to Norris Gully, and rails will be laid immediately to enable the line to be ready for the carriage of wool in December. Among the councillors elected for Petone is Mrs Baby. Her father was also a candidate in another Ward, but was defeated. In connection with the works on the Midland Railway, it is estimated that there will have to be five miles of tunnels in the Otira Gorge in order to avoid a steeper gradient than lin 5. This is the same as the Rimutaka incline. One effect of thes.e tunnels will be that passengers will see very little of the gorge from a tourists' point of view. ~ DUNEDIN, September 10. At a meeting of the Otago Rowing Association last night, it was resolved to try and get the 1898 championships held at Dunedin on March 23rd, the jubilee anniversary of the foundation of the settlement of Otago. A resolution to that effect is to be proposed at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rowing Association, and delegates are to be invited to support it.