INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 632, 4 August 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(From our own Correspondent.) LYTTELTON HARBOUit BOARD. CITItISTGIIUUCM, AllgUSt i], At the Lyttelton Harbor Board meeting t >-day, Mr Harm.-m sail! tiio Government were g-efctiri.tr tour torpedo boats ou* from Ho up, an 1 the carriages for tlie big guns. The site fur sailors home in Lyttelton had been handed ov v by Government, and the building wnulu be proceeded with. RANGITIKI BRIDGE. The collapse of the ilangitiki bridge, and consequent interruption of railway communications, was the cause of a big meeting at Wangaturi yesterday to agitate the Government. PARLIAMENTARY. Replying to Mr Montgomery's speech on the financial condition of the colony., Mr Hnrsthouse paid Mr Mpntgomerys speech was a good enough sort of one of its kind bat there uw-- nothing , new in it. If lie had said anything nciv and good lie, (Mr Hursthouse). might have boon induced to come off the r;:il on which lie now sat and join him, but i;;> wa? sorry to say ho would yet have to Keep to the mil . For liiinseif he looked upon this proposed loan as the most previous wrong that could happen to the colony, lie would venture to Bay that a progressive property tn:c would be the order of the day at the next elections, and he considered that the Otago central ruilvvay would prove a failure and nonproductive. The all-absorbing question to-day is the loan. There is no doubt now that there will be a keen contest over it, and the voting will be considerably complicat d. The southern members appear to be antagonistic to Auckland, and the debate on the bill will be lengthy. The report on the Lunatic Asylums shows that during the present year forty house wives had been admitted, four domestic servants, one doctor, one clergyman, one lawyer, three clerks, thirty miners, twenty--eight labourers, Qiie barmaid and threw governesses.