INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1351, 25 September 1886, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[Per Press Association]. Auckland, September 24 Henry WiliLim was to-day committed for trial on charges of stealing a large quantity of pig iron from Morin and On. ‘t he other two prisoners (Lake and Norris) were di'chsrgedHr Q M O’Horke will on Monday lav the foundation stone of thn North N Z Woollen Company’s Factory at Onehungs . The construction of the building U well advanced, and the machinery is on the way from England. A meeting of merchants, manufacturers, and others took place Lst night to con sider what measures should be adopted to foster loc-d indue 1 ry and provide eraployn eat /or the population. It was resolved to form an association for the above object, and a committee was appointed to draft rules.

Owing to the refusal of the Government to repair the Great South Road, the Road Boards interested have otter mined to rastablish toll gates.

Nearly half of the last Auckland football team will be prevented from playing to-morrow through injuries received at the last match with Sydney. Among them are Lnsk, McCausland, Maguire, Spencer, and Murphy.

At a conference be!ween Colonel Whitmore and officers of the Volunteer forces re Volunteer Encampment at Taranaki, in reply to a question as to whether, in erne of detention at Tarsmki, the Government would pay expenses, Colonel Whitmore replied In the negative, and said the Government were only prepared to bear expenses for four days at the encampment. A resolution was carried in favor of an Auckland Faster Encampment, but companies are to be consu’t d to see how many are willing to go to Taranaki. Wellington, September 24.

At the Magistrates’s Coart this morning Charles Hodgson was committed for trial on two informations charging him with embezzllng monies belonging to the Uni m Bank. One information was for£B9, and the second comprised two sums, £34 and £3O. Bail was allowed >n two sureties of £250 each;

In July the Marine Department wrole to the Dnit ; d States Fishery Bureau asking for a further supply of ova of various species of fish, and a reply has just been received from Professor Baird, who states that he will have great pleasure in meeting the wishes of the New Zealand Government as feras possible. He thinks he can supply as many white fish as are wanted, bat is somewhat doubtful as to the land-locked salmon and Cdifornian trout- There will be no charge for the whit 5 fish except the expenses of forwarding from Michigan to San Francisco. Probably, he says, the Bureau will have to obtain trout from somewhere else. It is understood that Lieut.-Colonel Roberts, who is in charge of the constabulary on the West Ooast of this island, is to be rt moved to Auckland to take charge of <he permanent force there. The funeral ef the late Mr Brandon, M.LG., took place this afternoon and was largely attended. The Governot’s carriage was present. Members of the Ministry, attended the funeral, and the solicitors’ offices in town were closed as a m»rk of respect. At a meeting of the City Council tonight, it was decided not to strike a special rate for charitable purposes, as it was intimated that with the subsidy and voluntary contributions the amount was sufficient to maintain the Hospital and Benevolent Society. Kdmara, September 21.

At the inquest at Mitchell’s, Lake Brunner, on the body of Mary Taylor, aged 20, who was drowned while fording the Arangapua creak, a tributary of the lake, a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. Dunedin, September 24. A smart shock of earthquake is reported to have taken pho at Arrowtown about ten minutes to ten this morning. It was accompanied by aa unusual noise. The First Offenders’ Probation Act was taken advantage of to-day by the Justices who discharged under its provisions a young man charged with stealing a saddle. iNTEBCiKGiLt, September 24. A ohi'd, nineteen months o'd, daughter r { a man named Ghriste, now la penal servitude for arson in the Lake county, was drowned to-day ic a street drain in North Invercargill in front of the mother’s house. The infant is supposed to have been crossing on a board laid over the ditch when it fell os Its fact acd was unable to rise.