INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1439, 23 December 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

AucKLiNo, iscoember 22 Among f he passengers by tits ) >nio are Fathers B okar, and Mad >ll, of the sst. J auph’s Missionary Society, London, They take np a M*ori Mission A r umber of dogs, brought by passenders of the lonic, were d -etroye l owing to the latter refusing to comply with the stringent Customs roauUtibns

The lo io brings 1000 canaJes, besides n'ahtlogales, robins, piping bullfinches, etc.

Patka, December 2^ A schoJ of whales passed the betds last night at hhh watsc. Two were blown in to shallow water, and being unable to get away, were secured. One Is 27ft long, the other 21ft. Both ate high and dry, and will be turned to good account by thair lucky captors. Wellington, December IJ. Mr Walter Turnbull, formerly of the firm i f W. and G Turnbull and Co. who recently left for England, has bem fortunate enough to drop inti a legacy f £IOO 000. This sum ne inherits fmm bis roc ntly deoaassd uncle, a weO-known private banker and me< chant, Mr Peebles, wbo died lately at the age of S 5 years, leaving an estate worth between £240,000 and £260,000, to be divided between his three nephews, Mr Walter Turnbull, the eldest brother, taking tbe sum named. Dunedin, December 22 It appears another attempt is to be made to work the Caswell Bound marble quarries, and an app.lcaiion c<me before the Land Board, by Mr W McLean, oi Wellington, for a lease of 600 aces, with the right of purchase at tbe end of fire years, but consideration was a j turned. An attempt <s to be made for a ne Company, to be floated In Loudon, and to purchase a stea uer and bring out a number of skilled Italians to work the quarries

The Chairman of the Fire Dnderw i era’ Association waited on tbe Premier to-day, to ask that in all oases of fire it should' be mandatory that an official enquire be held, as the Association believed I eneficid results would ensue. The Premier refe-ed the Association to tbe Minister of JusMce.