INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1593, 25 June 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, Juno 24 At the meeting of the Harbor Board a letter was read from Sir Geoage Grey, offering the gift of a life-boat, lighter and more suitable to the exigencies fo this p.)tt than the boat now here Tho offjr was accepted, with an expression of thanks to the gonerouß donor. Wellington, June 24. The balance-sheet of the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company shows the reoeipts to be £2944 14a 7<3, aod tho expenditure £2910 (b 3d. leaving *a balance of £44 14s 2d, whioh has .boon oarrled forward. The Harbor Board have dotormined to \ raiae a loan of £50,000. In answer to a cable message, a reply was reoeired from London that now is a favorable time for. the operation. Gbeymouth, Jane 24 The Proprietors of the Coal OreeV Mino havo almost completed the arrangements for thoroughly prospecting the mino before floating it. on the London market. Two seams on tho leace are 10ft thick eaoh, and show beautifal, hard, bright ooal. . •. , Dunedin, Jane 24. Mr W. N. Blair and the Distrlot Engineer, Mr Uaaher, to-day inspected the Win^atui vladnot on the Otago Central Railway, and tested it m every possible way. The formal opening takea place tomorrow. . A man named William Hunter has been oommittod for trial at Ba'clutha for ihuotlng at Jame3 YoiiDg. The evidence showed Hunter Jiad nttuok Younp-, and on the latter calling his son Hnnter went away and Young went homo, and while washing his hands a gun was discharged at him He saw by the fhah that it was Hunter who discharged it.