INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1768, 16 February 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[rBII PUESS ASSOCIATION.]

Auckland, Pebranry 15 A meotioft of the Committee to arrange for the repre^entatlonof Aucklenl nt the Melbourne Exhibition was held to-night, when it was intimated that exhibits of k%url gam, New Zealand fl\x, tanakohe ba'k, pawa fiah aud pawa shells, ostrich feathers and epgs, It cullv-tnado wive, oi k, oto., will ba forwarded from tbia distrlot to Melbourne for the Exhibition.

With reference to the complaints by Or Lindsay In reepect to he frequency of accidents at Whitney's Carttldgo Facto y, Vlr Jibson, Inspector of Machinery, visited the establishment to-day, and declared that the ms*ohlne y - was not 'i»n erous and thnt no aco dent could possible happen with ordinary care. Wellington, F« roary 15. The Following w tho res-ilt of tho Senior Oivil Servio u examination : UK. Ad.itna. Dunedin ; S A Bull, Auckland ; G 0. Ul.do; B. «. bilfl 1 n, . Auckland ; J. HJ, Banaen, I'haraep ; W'S. Latrobe, 'uoklind'; Isabella D.'Lauj,ity T^jameA ; A. F. Morrieon, Ohr jatchurch ; ' a nnio Murray, 'hamaa; A B. i^oberrß, Aucklan'l ; W. L. Kobiuson, Auckland, ft. C; RuHman, Napier ; Jii H Kchoaetenberg, uckland ; and A. Witnoy, Auukland a , J. ktringer of Cbristohurub has passed m shorthand . ' The <-»overnmeht are sending 40 oonvioiß to tort Halawoll. It ia understood that the fortificutions will be completed by prison lubor It iB expected that the whole of tbe reductions' to be made hi* the* Civil Sjivi'co will be Gazetted m abtut 8 week. •" Blenbeim, February 15. The Vernon ran wa» ott 'tiro yesterday. Tho Hon W. Clifford, Vegiated by levirnl people, happened |tp ba near the run, and worked bard, and astisted by nineteen or t.Vtm y met) employed «t a th-«il}\ng , maohiuo on Oiffrd'a mud Utjbn.ok't •tatlon put the tiro completely out by ftva o'clock m the ovenlng. At ono time it was thought the hoai«stead was m danger No one seems to know how the fire originated. GjIEYMOUTii, February IB Perotti'a aawuiu.','^ BaW?er ' 8 wk i were burned down this morniutr between four an J five o'clock. The t>u. Idingn weio not ingoijad. Tho loas is over £600, the maohjnery r^ino^; ... , Later. it b»s been asoertklned tb»t Jferotti'i loib la miohinery !• over £100J, besides the loss entitle! through the stoppage of a running Mill eaa. a number «f anespeoted ord«r# were oo band, iud the will wm »«Ttr io buiy b«f ow,