INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1715, 19 November 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Auckland, November 18 As tha outcome of the recent disputes which have arisen be ween wool merchants and bnjera, reepecing a charge of 2s 6 ( per bale imposed by the former lor receiving, forward 'ng, eta., and a similar charge to which exists m tha Sonth and elsewhere, it hns beea decided by the former to hold the wool Bales here on one day. The 30th inst has accordingly been ! fixed, and on that day 2,000 bales will ba offered. It i 3 hoped thin atep will offer an inducement to Southern buyers to be present at the sales. A man named John Sutollffe fell Into the harbor from the Railway Wharf, thin evening and was drowned; He was single, and waa a fisherman. The Royal Hnrtlonltoral Soolety's Spring Show opened to-day m the Drillshed. The exhibition, especially of out flowers, is first-class, The sadden death of Oolonel Lyon created some sensation, and genuine regret •is experienced. The event Ib attributed to heart disease. Aa Colonel Lyon *a8 not under medical advloe, an inquest is to be held to-morrow, Hie remains will be interred on Sunday, with fall military honors. TATJRANaA, November 18. The Oonnty Council have received from the Thames School of Mines the results of teats of the sample of quartz sent from Tepuke :— Samples from faoings give a value of bullion at 15? per ton, and a sample from the body of the reef gives a bullion worth £1 17a 3d. A prospecting association is be'ng formed to search the district for payable deposits of coal and gold, both of which are now proved to exist. Wellington, November 18. All the local Volunteers have been called out to attend the funeral of the late Hon Wi Tako on Sunday. At a meeting of creditors m the bankrupt estate of W. R. Waters, this afternoon, a resolution was proposed to resist the claim of the City Advance Company for £2200, Four credit >ra voted m favor of the motion, and three against, it, but as the latter had a majority m value the motion was negatived, and the matter was left to the Official Asaignee to decide what action should be taken. Nblson, November 18. The twenth-first anni veriiary of the Nelson Fire Brigade was celebrated today, when that Brigade, with the Salvage Corps and Rlohmond Fire Brigade with their wives and families,- joined m a pionio. Dunedin, November 18. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting Mr Dennieton, the chairman, referred at some length to the Bankruptcy Act, and said the question arose whether it would not be better to be without the Act altogether. The process of whitewashing waa too easy, and the penal clauses were nearly a dead letter through the disinclination of the j'idges to aot as a judge and jury. The small average returns from the estates waa another thing Formerly 10s iv the £ conld b* counted upon, bnt now they had to be content with 261 It was resolved to petition Parliament to appoint a Commission to enquire into the D >ck T.ust matteia, especially as to the raising uf the loan Invekoarghii November 18. Attheioqud«ton Albert Small, the child suff.oated by a fall of a window sash on his shoulder?, a verdict of accidental death was returned. The Coroner severely reprimanded one of the witnesses for her drunkenness 1 1 (me o f t^e aooident.