INTERPROVINCIAL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4171, 3 December 1884, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Peb United Ppess Association.]

Auckland, This day,

Tenders c been received here for converting the barque Pelham to a screw steamer, Mr Seage's tender was accepted for £3550,

A friendly rowing match between crews from the Auckland Naval Brigade and the German warship Albatross will be arranged to take place shqrtly,' The Nazals, .challenge the visitors. ' . ' At the half-yearly meeting yesterday of the Mercantile Association it was stated that 80 members had enrolled. It is understood to be MijMitchelson's intention to retire from public life at least for ; some years. It is said that Major Atkinson has urged Mr Mitchelson to reconsider his decision, but without avail. Mr Mitchelson will probably not resign for some months yet. '■-■■~- ....'-. The Auckland Presbytery have remitted an overture to the General Assombly on the question of church praise. .Too little attention they -say\is paid to this important I-matter. f ' ; ' -.' ■ . . .. : . ' ■ ' .''.,

Wellington, This day.

The number of accounts for the tax posted by the Property Tax Department to-day was 825,500, '~ _ ~ , Captain Edwin has received the following, message from Roxburgh : —Between, four and five p.m. yesterday a heavy thundercloudburst over the township and vicinity, ■within a circuit of about four miles, causing the creeks to fjciod, |q such, an as to away' the town, water wqrfcs, tearing up .supply optnjng up culverta of twenty years' standing., The damage Is estir mated at four or five hundred pounds. A seven-roomed house occupied by Mr Louis Davis, sharebroker, was destroyed by fire at, 0.45 last evening. The liouso was owned by J. Dransfleld, and insured, for £350 in the London,' Liverpool' and. Globe. Davies : furniture £250 _in. thtf' Mutual office, o f ' : a h e ep dip,' s t^'d ! ontlie premises, fof £450 in th,e tsme office, Davis statDß h,o left £200, in nafcea in phe Hp^e-which have oeen destroyed. ■ ' ifr Stout , 9 absence wiU extend over some weeks. '' ' : '.'' . •■'.

Sir Julius Vogol will leave for the. springs , in a fortnight. ..;''. Mr ¥m. Bishop, an old resident, and formerly agent for Mossjrs Jf'M'eckan, and Oα., died tq-day, Hearn leaves for Riverton on Monday.

Blenheim, This day. : A boy fire years old,,son of the master of the schooner Onward, loading at Kaiuha, in ,tho Sounds near Havelock, was drowned yesterday. He was last seen fishing off the punt. The body has not yet been recovered. iThe lad John Rose was charged yesterday with obtaining a gnn under false pretences, and was- committed, for trial-at. the April sittings of the Supreme Court. The other chargo of presenting a gun at a person in a public street was not proceeded .with. The doctors who have examined the lad have pronounced him sane.;'