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INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Auckland, August 16. Captain Pearoe, of the steamer Durham, sighted a disabled steamer off the Kalptra Bkt &t noon to-day m tow of one of the steamers of the Northern Company. , The directors of the Moanatairl Gold* mining Company have received a cable message from London, containing an offer made by a London syndicate of £20,000 cash for Moanatairl. It is stated that the Directors have not atoepted the. offer, bnt authorised the agent to submit the pro* perty at a higher figure. A caveat has been lodged m the Supreme Court against the will of Bishop, recently thot at Sin Francisco, the ob« j motion being entered by Mrs Bishop. Me Napier moved to-day that probate be granted and the caveat be set aside. Tha motion wan adjourned till Friday. . Wkmingtow, August 16. The recent heavy rains have caused a couple of slips from the cbffi overhanging business places m Willis street. It la estimated that m two slips over 700 tona of rock and clay fell, but . the damage ia comparatively trifling. The weather hai not yet oleared.

Major-General Whltmore, Gommandant of the New Zaaland forces, accompanied by Colonel Bailey, President of the Military Oounoll of Eduoatlon, and 0»ptal» Ooluman, of the Permanent Militia, paid a visit to H.M.S. Opal this morning. A Major-General's salute of eight gnat wai fired.

GrbyvoOTH, August 16. Some hares reoently tet loose, at the Hauplri hao now beoara* established. An attempt to transfer some Severn trout two to five inohes long from Little Giey to the brooks of Upper Ahaura failed. A blUy with the fish la it wm left la t|M oreek at night, it being too late to get to the destination, and m the morning all were dead, though the billy and Its lid were well perforated with holes It U thought possible they may hare bees poisoned by the water having flowed through awnrapy ground. '■'

DuHspiN, Aagnat ... J6. The Olago team of footballers left this afternoon by the Htwep. The team reaohed Nelson on Friday, whore they play their first matoh.

Several changes m business olrslas ate reported. Two Melbourne capitalist! have purchased the business of Kent and McCarthy, brewers. R. Hudson and 00. and aI. X Marrsy and Qo,, bitonlt and chocolate manufacturers, Are arranging termo for amalgamation. Intelligence has been received that W. A, Fleming and William Allan, Otago medioal students, havo passed the final professional examination at Edinburgh University and have each taken degrees.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1638, 17 August 1887, Page 2

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411

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1638, 17 August 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1638, 17 August 1887, Page 2

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