INTERPROVINCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1870, 18 June 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(PER PRESS ASSOCT ATION. ) New Plymouth, June 16. An aooldent happened on Saturday lo a boy thirteen years old at Oraata, ramed Albert Bayley, eon of the Ooanty Chairman. He was oat shooing vrith a gun, and while trailing it along the ground the hammer, which wbb down on the c»p, caught m a pleoa of wood, which raised the hammer eUghtly, diecbarging the gun. He recelyed a terrible wound m the left arm which will have to be amputated. Nbw Plymouth, June 17. The b.O. Hawea la now a total wreok. The mala mast and funnel have gone, also a portion of the stern. Hundreds of people were out to see the wreok to-day. Although lv comparatively calm water ahe 1b breaking up rapidly. She is to be sold on Wednesday by auotion. Wanoanui, Juna 17. A. man, named H. S. SooftUt, attempted suicide on Friday night by stabbing himself In the breast with a sheath knife. He was brought up at the PoMce Court to-day and committed for trial at the District Court. He assigned aa a reason for the act domestic trouble. A dlvoroe salt, In which he Is concerned, iq aomJng on nejft week. • The wounds are not dangerous, iNVKBOARQILLj June 17. A meeting of dairy factory representatives reßolved to communicate with the Premier .reraonetratlng against the appointment of B, M. McOallnm as Government Lecturer and Instructor In Dairying, on the grounds of tho appointee not being a practical dairyman and bla experience being very limited, and that the Premier be reminded of a diatinot promlße that only a thoroughly qualified and praotloal m%n would be appointed to the position. Tho' proposal to appoint Mr MoOallum caused surprise, as hi/only known connection with the Industry was as. manager of the New Zealand and Australian Lind Company's' estate, on which a factory was erected,, at E'den#*le Q. F, De Jou*, the Town Clerk, North inveroarglll, pba.rged with en>bez@\em.ent of borough foft^s, haa been under a cloud for a oonalderab'o time, and was superseded sorao months auo. Onmraent 1b made on the la^.ty of audit and munlolpal msnageoicnt diaolOsed by the faot that m this case and the B^rongh of Wlnton, the Town Clerk of wh.loh la now m prison for the same cffonce, these offiolalo were ablo to manipulate tho books for year« without dsoovery, although the entire reveouea of the boroughs are on!; a few hundreds a year. A question In connection with the new tariff la being inado the subject of commont hero. Mr Ward, M.U U., a Protectionist, la agunt for en, English mado e^oep d|p, and had 200 oasee landed after the Hoaae of Reproeentatives adopted tho tariff. The Collector of Customs oklraod daty- on these, preuuraably under tho tariff items, -'Patent and proprietary medicines, 1 and other preparations rsoDmmonded to ; the publlo under a gonerql nqtue ov title las apeoiQoa fay a»y '(iiaeaae or affection affecting- human or animal bodies, 25 p&r cent." Mr Ward held that no daty was payable, and after oomraunloatlon with the Tressuror the order oamo to admit the sheep dip f/ee. A l&oal liflaker, who \n a' strong* tiroteotlonlst, Bays that ho dnddratood the items proteotea nheep dip, otherwise ho would hayo made representationi to the'Goverrim.eht w(th view to the frupQsitlon of a dqty on the Imported article, there beiDg about a doyan makers of tho commodity now within the oolony.