INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1729, 7 December 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Auckland, December 6. The Inquiry into the racing cf the ferry steamers Uaglo and Victoria In the harboi on the 9ih November was heard to-day, before Captain Burgesa (Harbor Master) and Captains Clayton and Frater, at the Harbor Bo»rd cffioea. Evidence was taken at great leDgth, ten witnesses being examined, but no deoleion was oome to In the matter by the Board of Inquiry, as the evidence haa to le submitted to the Harbor Board, who will determine what notion shall bo takon. '. he Financial Refpim Aaacqlatlon have ta^graphod to Mr Goldfe, M.HB:, approving of hla action and that of the other members who are supporting the measure for the reJuctlon of the number of members of tho Houae to fifty. A publio moating, convenod by the ludußtrial Aeoociation, was held to-night to consider tbe action <-f Government m reference to the revision of the tariff, and a resolution were parsed condemning the position takon by Government on the qneßllon, and urging a revision of the tariff before the cloaeof the session. The action of the AockUnd memborß who have given Eiipport to Ili9 Ministry m the stand they have taken was condemned, while that of Mr Mosa and others, who contended that tbe subject should be considered at onoe, wbb approved. Napier, December 6. A tolograyn was received by Mr Dobson, from Tjser and Co. to dny, which announces that the finnl decision m tho English Courts m tho action brought against Hall and Co., by Haslam and Co. for alleged infringement of patents connected withfreoaing machinery is m favor of Hall, the action being dismissed. The matter is of importance to New Zealand, as tho Colonial Uuion Company's steamers through whoso runniug 1 rales of froight for f rosson moat have bcon largely reduced, use Hall's machines, and had the decision b^on m favor of Haelam tho proviouely existing companies would virtunl'y have secured a monopoly. The Colonial Union Company's steamer Balembria met with an accident to her propeller near TencrifTo, but waa repaired at that port, and Bailed agnin on Mondny. Tho same Company's Btoamer Ashleigh Brook arrived at Sydney this morning, after a passage of 53 days, Wellington. Decomber G The local candidates for tho December matriculation examination of tho Now Zealand University cumber between forty and fifty. A man named Stanley, who arrived from Greymouth ou Friday is reported to bo missing, not haviDg bcon soon since he lauded. Gbkymoutii, December 6. A correspondent' writes from Toiaya Flat, Grey Valley, stating that he found a Balmon on the bt^ak o£ tho Gray river threo fool lq&g, two foot iv m'rth, and full of epawni. Eo found it m a dry bywash, where it appeared -to havo got during a ft?* 3 ,