INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2245, 5 October 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

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Auckland, Ootober 4. A custodian, Mr Froßjr, has been appointed for the Walterao oaves The report of the Dlreotora of the Sonth fir'tlsh Iniaranae Oomiaay for the year does not recommend the deolar»tiun of a dividend* At a meeting of fruit grower* to«day, It was decided to form a Company for the export of fruit to foreign markets, and a Committee wt.B formed Tlth that objeot. A little boy, named Albert Goodaore, twelve years of age, who drowned) to-day whilst bathing at Cheltenham beaoh, Dovef?"*** A numboc of companions were near, bit w"C"? W\)U to halphlm. Mr Lewis, Under-Sucretary for Native Affairs, has arrived at Rutoraa. He oallad a mooting of Natives and on behalf of the Government effjred to parohase the j Rotoraa township, about aore», for £65G0. The Maoris, however eald they wanted £40,000, imjj tho meeting wiD adjourned. Nirißß, Ootober 4. Farmers and the oouatry aettlera look forward to the shearing and hatvent with apprehension of n great acarslty of labor. An unprecedented area la to orop, ploughs being at work In every dlreotfon. One gentlemßn h,»s been advertising for tuudecß lit harvesting flve or *h hundred sores of grain crops, but not a ologle tender has bean reoelved. WwuiifOTOK, Ootober 4. The Pilot Servloe Qoramittee of the Harbor Board havo aaleoted Oaptain Henry Johnuoo, of the .a, Lindus, from among the numorona tpplloants for the pott of Harbor Pilot. Captain Johoaon was formerly In tho servloe of O»ptsln Williams and tho Union Steamship Company. ISKLttON, Ootobor 4. W. Tarnor, of St KUJa, Fronoh P*fla, lalo master of tho ketoh Champion, writes to tha "Ojlonlat," queatlonlug whother the Korauul did not atrlke a whlto rook, which he baa observed Jylnp from one and • half to two mlloa W.N,VV. of the £aaf. Barrels and covered with a depth of five to six feet of waterDunkdin, Ookobcr 4 Thero waa a very lar^e ottendanoo of Masons m tho Masoufo Hall thts evening, representatives being proaent from Oamaru In the Nprth aud Jnveip»rglll In the South, to ijpko part In tho Installation of Mr J^mes Gorn, District Grand Master of the Zea'and Soatb, Sootoh Uouititatlon, P.P.G.M, Bro V. Pyko wm the loiUlllog UMtwr.