INTERPROVINCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1869, 16 June 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

♦ (Per Press Association.) Auckland, Jane 15. Copies of the Financial Reform Attoola' tlon'g report on the Colonial Tresaarar'a Bridget have tern forwarded to the Government and members of the Honse of RepreeePtaUves. Wellington, June 15. John McLean, a settler at Manala, w»s lost whilst cattle hunting on the elopes of Monnt Egmont, In the bash from Monday aitll Friday last week, subsisting on borrlea and part of the time on the flash of cattle killed. Tho weather was very severe and when McLean reached ft Battler's honae he had nearly lost the power of epeeoh; Twice after travelling a time he found himself back at the point where he had shot a beast. Captain Bandall wires from New Plymouth to theUndorwrltera^Aosoolatlon: " Boarded tbe Hawea this morning andl found the bottotn owed In trader the engine room, the fannel parried away and the deck started. The upper work !i holding together, but will break up shortly. Floating Is now hopeless. A heavy swell is causing the vessel to work through the aand on to a rooky bottom. 1 r Dunedin, Jane 15. The Taapeka Reform Aseo :latloa carried a resolution Btrongly objsotlng to the tariff as being a hardship on the produoars of the colony, namely, the mining and agricultural Industries. Considerable astonishment was expressed locally at Mr Blown pairing for Ministers on the tariff* At a special meeting of the University Council to consider the Fair Rent Bill It wan pointed ont that the University wm affected, and stood In a unlqne position, aa the whole of its lnoome was derived from land. A High Sohool oould raise its feei, a Harbor Board its dues, and a Corporation its rstes, but the Council had only iti rents. It had made fixed engagements, and tome Professors were eleoted for life, and this Bill might result m taking away its moans to fulfil its engagement!. A Committee was appointed to draw np reasons for objecting to the Bill to ba /submitted to Parliament. Blvtt, Jane 15. Dr Gaze, ft saloon passenger on the Manspoarl, was arrested at the Bluff, charged with wife desertion at Christ* oh or oh. He was acoompalned by a woman said to be his housekeeper. Ha will be brought before the Jastlcea aad remand« 4 to Ohriatohnroh. > .