INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1447, 4 January 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, January 3, At a meeting of the New Zealand Iron and Steal Company, tho Company wat formally wound up His Exoelleucy the Governor has reoeived no offiotal communication relative to his rumored transfer to the Mauritius. ' He knows noth'n^ farther thsn the published cable meeaApe. The New Ztaland Herald le now perma- *>" t' 7 enlarged to the size of the Melboiune Argus. A cable mesaage from New York, dated Daoember 30 h, reoeived m Auckland today, states that the new business of tho Equitable Lift) Assurance Sooiety of U.S., daring 1886, is about twenty.tyro mlllfon pounds sterling. W. Smith PergaaoD, a medical man, but working at Maugawai aa a gum digger, has beau the victim of a murdereous aniult, ana* lies m a oritioal condition. A man named Pyoe has been arrested on buspioion. WjiLLtNOTON, January 3. Mr Tregear, author of the " Aryan Maori." by the last mail received notloe of his appointment aa a Fellow of a Royal Geographical Society; A man named Barns walked out of the window of the Get-r me»t shop during hit sleep and smashed his lee badly. The offioial record of the Wellington Fxhlbltion was circulated this morning. It is a vofume of 359 p*goa, with a preface hy Sir Juliu3 Voge), and includes the three pri*23 essaya on the industries of New Zealand. Ts Whiti was released from prison this morning, at ton o'clock. He was met by ab«ut (en Natives, who groated him warmly, aod pre?eattd him with enough lobacc > to 'aafc him tho next fix months. He 'i Teased hia thanks to Mr Garney, Govern r of the »:aol, for the treatment he haa received. He wi'.l remain at tho Hutt for. anno dya, ani then return to Parlhaka. i'ln fine of £100 imposed oa Te Whiti m ari.lkioD to his iaipriaonmentwill not be »uforcod as lung rs his behavior Is good. The amount of property tax paid at tho Wellington Office up to Saturday, and the amount paid at the several !Poßt Offices m the colony, advices respecting which were reoeived to-isy by the Commissioner, make a total of £171,000 ao far received. Mr Price Wi.liams, an English oapltalist, before he 1 ft bought all the mineral leases at C,»llingwoo<i he could acquire. Tho first thing done will be to run out a wharf into 35ft of water at a cost of some £30 COO. The Govemmwib will probably give a contraot for steal rails at a price less than now paid, Wakganui, January 3. William Turner, a boy twelve years of age, was drowned seventeen milaa up the Wanganui river, on Saturday. He was with a pionio party, and bathed near ft rapid, and was carried away. Two young men tried to save him, bnt the risk to themaelvea was toe great; The body was dragged for to-day, but has not been found. Another boy's body waa found to-day m the river opposite the town. Strange thing is, no boy has bian miased. The body must have been m the nater nine or ten days. Jt was recognised by aehoolfe'lowa and relatives an that of % lad named Nixon, but the supposed mother, a widow, nays It is not her boy, whom she cent a week or two ago to Morton to spend his school holidays. Blbnhbim, January 3. The Waipapa run, Clarence river, 70,000 aoreß,htia been sold through Mesara Sinclair and MacAllstpr to Messrs J. and A. Bel!, Wairau Valley, for £6600, The run was taken over by the Govern* ment eighteen mouths ago for the eradication of soab. The sheep on the proparty were killed, and the run is noir olean. There is inoreased activity m station property m Marlborough, UDNKDiN, January 3. An unsucooßsfal search yr\n made yesterday and jt>day f jr tho body of the man lost from the Tekapo. : There ia so truth m the statement, that one of the crew jumped over after him.