INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1398, 4 November 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, November 3. Sevsral persons have made tidy hauls hero over Arsenal’s win, two or three bookmakers having written him. The District Engineer has returned from a trip through tie King Country inspecting the progress of the work along the main trunk railway. Ho reports every'hing going on satisfactorily. The first eighteen miles wi 1 ba completed in six weeks, ai d will be ready for traffic scon afiervrardr. T e tunnel contract la progress : ng as wall as can be e.xpe ted. A Committee of th> Chamber of Commerce have been in communication with Sir Julius Vogel ro-day regarding the cable rate?, and have received a reply ta the effect that the Government are unwilling, under all the circumstances, to give a subsidy. At the same lime it is felt by the Chamber that the excessive rates now imposed will prove a serious burden on the commercial community. While it is presumed Government have strong reasons for refusing the concessions offered by the Company, they have been urged to bring matters in dispute to a speedy settlement. Wellington, November 3. Samuel Peaforges, the debtor who was imprisoned f< r negligence in keeping books, has been released on a writ of habeas corpus on the ground of Irregular commitment. Those Maori prisoners who were sentenced to a nnnlh’s imprisonment at the last criminal seasi ns, were released today, looking all the better for their incarceration. Te Wh’li has still two months to serve. From an examination of the Tul it ap penra she is resting on a soft bottom of sand and shells, and does not appear to be s’rained in the slightest, and the general opinion is that if immediate steps are taken she can ba raised. A preliminary enqu'ry took place t-day and the Magisterial enquiry will probably be held this week The Walrarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society’s Show was held at Carterton to-day. The Show was a moat su'easeful one there being 480 entries in all the cl-’sses.