INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1340, 13 September 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[Per Press Association]. Auckland, S eptember 11. The manufacture of snti-fouilng paint in Auckland has not proved a sncsessful ladmtry. The originate, Q, O. Baird, examined in bankruptcy before the Official Assignee, stated that he could not induce the Onion Steamship Company to on the paint for their vessels. Wellington, September 11. , The outward San Francisco mail takes home 103 nominations by persons In the colony who Wish friends to Join them, and have paid the necessary deposits, amounting in all to £IO2O. The number nominated from the respective provincial districts is—Auckland, 40 ; Taranaki. 6 ; Hawke’s Boy. 18 ; Wellington, 18 ; Nelson (Westport), 1; Canterbury, 9 : Otago. 20 ; Southland, 2. 8 ’ Poet Chalmers, September 12. The Ship Westland, Captain McWilliams, which arrived from London at 2 pro. yesterday, paiaed the Island of Tristan d’Acaoha on July 31st, A boat came off to the ship, asking Captain McWilliams for medical comforts and provisions. They informed him that a boat's crew had left the island several months since, and had not returned, and were astonished when the captain told them the men had perished off the island. Several of the widows of the drowned men were approaching confinement, and Captain McWilliams generonsly sent them a supply of port wine, tea, arrowroot and. medical comforts.