INTERPROVINCIAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 630, 28 July 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(From our own Correspondent.) THE PIGEON BAY SERVICE. CumsTCHuncH, July 27. The steamer Akaroa commences running to Pigeon Bay with the mails to-morrow (Friday.) IHE ARTILLERY FORCE. Twenty of the armed constabulary from Cambridge leit Auckland for Wellington to-day to form part of tho artillery force. LOST IN THE SWAMP. A swamper named Harrison has been missing from Waiton, Upper Thames, since the 17th. It is supposed that he has been lost in the swamp and died from exposure. When last seen he was tho worse for liquor. AN AUSTRALIAN OPINION. A Mr Leigh representing some Australian capitalists, reporting on the Te Aroha gold field, expressed himself thoroughly satisfied. THE RAGLAN SUICIDE. At the inquest on Captain Johnston, who committed suicide at Raglan, a verdict of temporary insanity was returned Deceased was a nephew of' Lord Campbell, Viceory of ludia, and cousin of Sir G. Campbell, M.P. for Kirealdy. SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT WANGANUI. The body of a man named Ayleward was found in the Wanganni River this morning. Deceased jninped off the bridge into the water at eleven o'clock last night, it is guppoeed with the inten tion of committing suicide. He was 25 years of ace, and the cause is supposed to be through liabilities in an arbitration case. EARLY CLOSING. When Mr Hutchison's Municipal Act Amendment Bill comes on. Mr Dargaville proposes to insprt a clause in the interests of early closing, by which the Council will have power to regulate the hours at which places of business shall be closed. A similar attempt waR made last year by Mr Swanson, but did not go through. THE MAIL SERVICES. The net cost of ihe San Francisco mnil service last year was £5558, and of the Brindifii service £4706. THE RAILWAY EMPLOYES' WAGES. Sir George Grey is to ask to-morrow from wh.it date will the increase of wages to the railway employes take place. LAND TAX. To-day Sir G. Grey gave notice of a bill for imposing a land tax. CHINESE COOKS. The Hon. Mr Holmes asked the Premier to-day whether the Government are aware that Captain Sinclair, of the Sibyl, and Captain Berwick, of the India, have been called upon by the Customs department at Auckland to pay £10 poll tax on the Chinese cooks of their respective vessels ; also, whether it is true that the crew of the Bowen, from China, consisting almost entirely of Chinese, were allowed to land at Wellington without paying the poll tax. TEA. A bill just introduced by Mr Seddon, dealing with the importation of tea, provides that all tea imported into New Zealand shall be subject to an examination by the Cnstoins, who may take samples and have them analysed. If these samples appear to them unfit for human food, the tea from which they were taken shall be forfeited. If twice convicted of having imported bad tea, the importer's name and place of abode may be published in the newspapers of the day.