ITERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1856, 13 June 1888, Page 3

ITERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

PSR (PREB3 ASSOCIATION.) Wellikgton, June 12. With reference to tha suggestion mentioned la the cable news that the Chinese Conference at Sydney should aho consider the question of the doportatiop of French . convicts to the Pacific, Government statea I that no reply has yet been sent on behalf of this colony, but that they will probably agrae to tho proposition, Dunedin, June 12. A young man named James M'Loay, while softening dynamite, met with a serious accident. The charge suddenly exploded, when the left hand b«'ow -the wrist waa blown off, the right hand ia. jared, and the body covered with bruises. 1 The left arm was amputated above the wrist and the man ia llkoly to rjcover. Intercaroill, April 12. Considerable dissatisfaction is expressed by the fishermen and other inhabitants of j Stewart Island at the action of tho Bluff Harbor Board m altering tho day on ! which the tug makes the weekly trip to ! tho island from Wednesday to Monday, and for which the Board have a subnidy of £250 per anDum from the Postal Department. The fishermen sent a petition to the Board, asking that the former sailing day be reverted to, as they cannot get fish to sand to market on Mondays unless they fish on Sundays. ' Tho Board to-day refused to alter the day, tho reason assigned being that doing the (rip on "Wednesdays breaks up the week's work of the stnff.