INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1365, 8 October 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, October?. The Grmd Ju y have made a presentment tage i g hat a boose of detention, be estab.isnea fur prisoners of tender years. At a meeting of stevedores and ship* owners this aftern on, it was unanimously resolved that the action of the Lumpers’ Union w'B unwarrantable, ond those present pledged themselves not to employ Union men as such af er the 9'h iost. Wellington, October 7. Mr Crawford as efo eu the vor tarn n offer of £lO per ..ere tor hia land tk-n for defence works, and the question will now be settled in the usual way. Tenders were called for to-diay in Lond< n for the New Zealand loan of £ 1,325,0(0. together with £242,000 of inscribed stock, representing an equivalent amount for the district railways debentu ei held by the Government. These two amounts make the total referred to in the cab eon the subject. The minimum is fixed at 97.

Hokitika, October 7.

The West Coast Times publishes a letter from its Jackson’s Bav correspondent which says the Hinemoa arrived at Big Bay on 22ad, loaded 150 passengers and 120 tons cf stores without mishap the weather being fins Mr Murray, the in linear, went on <0 Jackson’s Bay to commence operations for the South road