INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 543, 27 September 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

Christchukch, September 26

At the police tl"pot to-day Sub-in-spector Coleman, of the Ar-ned Constabulary, who arrived from the North on Sunday, enlisted a number of men.. Over a hundred applicants presented themselves, and quite a crowd of persons iinxious to enlist were opposite the depot all day.

M<ita and Tubal Cain colt arrived or Saturday to take part in the Metropolitan Meeting.

A preliminary mvetiug , of the employees at tl)» Ra'hvay Works shops, who struck work on Saturday, wag held to-day at the Oddfellows' Hall ; 70 were present. It is the general opinion that the men will persevere in the course already entered on. Many have resolved to leave the Colony rather than submit. It was resolved to appoint a deputation to wait on the City and Sydenham Borough Councils to Lay the facts of the case before them. Committees of management and finance have been appointed. A deputation of the men waited during the day on Messrs Seddon and S. P. Andrews, M.11.1t5., and were very favorably received by those gentlemen, who expressed an opinion that i< would be extremely undesireable that so useful a body of artisans should leave the Colony.

A correspondent from Otako telegraphs to-day the latest Native news as follows :—Tilings so far are statu quo, tho Natives for sometime past ha ire been turning everything into cash, selling sheep and cattle at a groat sacrifice, their only object being to collect money in every way possible. Many small Native settlements in the vicinity are deserted, the inhabitants having gone to Parihaka. There is an uneasiness amongst the European settlers at New Plymouth as it is believed that Major Kemp is working in concert with the more turbulant spirits at Parihaka. The settlers about here are of opinion that the Armed Constabulary are not in such good fighting condition as a year ago, owing to a large number of their best men leaving ;it the time of the reduction in the pay. (Government are evidently doing their best to grapple with the difficulty, and to be prepared for any emergency, but there is no doubt that if a sudden outbreak occurred they would be at a disadvantage as compared wich a few months ago.

A young lady of Madison, Wis., received many anonymous poems of an amorous and flattering character. She finally submitted them to an intimate friend, a married lady, who recognised the handwriting as her husband's.