INTERPROVINCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2910, 28 February 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, February 27. Afc the annual meeting of the New Zealand District Board of the Hibernian Society, the statement of accounts showed a credit balance of £2689, In the collision between the Alameda and the schooner Queei, the schooner's bowaprit was carried away, with part of the stern, and the windlass was broken. The-Alameda w&s at once stopped, and assistance offered, but as the schooner was not too seriously damaged to make the port, the mail steamer resumed her voyage. The Queen afterwards came into the harbor. A young man named B. M. Madill, clerk in the employ of the Tramway Company, has reported to the police that he was robbed of £40 whib counting money at the counter of ihe Bank of New Zealand. He says that a stranger tapped him on the shoulder, telling him he had dropped a note, and Madill stooped to pick up the jocund, which he* found was not his, but in the meantime a calico bag which he had on the counter, containing £40, disappeared, and so did the stranger. Wellington, February 2fr. In consequence of a complaint by the rradea Council %a to interference with i

the streets by the tram lines, the city Surveyor has made examination »nd reports that there is little to find fault with except oae or two points, which the tramway owners have been ordered to repair at once. Tl}e bodies of Osbqrne and Ijurteau have not yet been recovered, and as a strong current from the TTntr River runs where the accident occurr-d. i> is more than likely the bodies have been carried out to se». A deputation of Presbyterians waited on the Governor to-day and. presented him with an address of welcome and loyalty on behalf of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, Lord Glasgow, in returning thanks, bore high, testimony to the work the Church has done in Scotland. Government have decided to grant the widow of the late Mr J< hn Blackett, ex-Engineer-in Chief, a compassionate allowance of UltyKt. Sir Robert Stout passed througji today en route to attend the Uriizersity Senate at Auckland. Government have sought the opinion of the Crown law officers on' the question of prosecuting a newspaper for publishing certain advertisements of lotteries ' relating to New South Wales and Queensland, and also the question of prosecutions in regard to missing word competitions.