INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1642, 22 August 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, August 20. The City Cmncil propose to ereot a storage reservoir for water for the oity supply m an allotment at the Great North road, a little northward of the present pumping station at Western Springs. Plans hare been prepared for a reservoir of 16ft In depth, with storage capacity o 400,000 gallons, and costing £10,000, but It is probable other plana will be prepared as the council have since seleoted anotht site for the reservoir. A deputation from the Trades and Lab* Council waited npon Mr Tole with refer ence to the recent reduction of the Mata ma.a railway statiorimaater to the rank o a portor and bridge-keeper at Ngaruawahia, and pointed bat that the case was another instance of several where railway servants considered they hai been unfairly treated, and the time had arrived when » Board of Appeal for railway servants simile r ti these In Cauierbuty and Otago should be appointed. Mr Tola promi el to consider the matter. Wblungton, August 21. Messrs Graves and Fleming, olothlers, publish an apology to the Wellington' Woollen Company for having sold tweed representing it to be of local manufacture, and explain that the sale took place nnder a misapprehension. Sir George Grey goes South to-morrow, and addresses pabllo meetings m the various cities of the Middle Island, returning here m a fortnight toiaddreis a meeting. A couple of fires ware discovered m aa Incipient stage last night. The first occurred at the Supreme Court buildings, where a window blind ln tbe custodian's quarters was discovered to be on fire, but was soon extinguished. Later Id the evening, during the performance of the Mammoth Minstreli sit the Opera House, a gentleman's coat hanging Id a dressing room was discovered on fire. The garment was completely destroyed, and the wall near the hook on which It wai hanging was charred* It Is believed that . the coat ignited from a pipe In the pocket. The first volume of a work entitled "{indent History of the Maori," written by Mr John White, has just been liiaed from the Government Printing Office. It purports to be authorised by a former Government, and to give the traditions and legends of the Maori race, which it does m snob a manner that one of the local papers, reviewing the work is led to remark — " The presence of what Is by polite society called ' Broad language ' may to some extent be excusable In suoh ■> history In order ti convey to the reader the Ideas of the people treated of, but the presenoe of whole pages containing in* decant allusions is assuredly without excuse, and certainly renders the volume before ua unsuitable for general perusal. When wo read the legend of the creation of woman ln language which is paattlvely disgusting we shudder when wa refliot that the author who makes the ' New Zealander speak for himself' has promised that the Maori shall give us the meaning of the names of mountains, rivers and headlands " The book was only issued tbis week, and It is under* stood the Government, ou learning the objectlonal character of the letter-press, has already suppressed the publication, at any rate, till lt shall have been expurgated. Gbsymotjtm, August iii. Alfred William Waller formerly steward m the Union Company's boats, was sentenced on Saturday to three months' In Hokltika Gaol for procuring a passage lv tbe Ohaa from Aackiaud to Greymouth. He wrote a letter purporting to come front a person well knoitn m Greymouth, who he made it appear, wanted him to come on here, and undertaking to settle for his passage when he arrived. The persoa named denied the authorship of the letter, A vagrant named Robert Carlyle was found In a person's wash-house sleeping m between several little fires he ha^m^de on the ground. He was sentenced tq qne nionth In tbe Hok Itfka Gaql . He admitted m tbp coarse of his examination that he bad bqrned down a houie m whleh be camped at Coal Creek some time ago. ,ff,-.