INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1031, 20 January 1882, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

The Auckland City Council are erecting automatic electric lire alarm apparatus throughout the city.

Mr W. E. Kowe, geologist, has reported ou the Golden Eleeoe mine at Westport. His report materially effects the interest of the whole of the Murray Creek mines. Ho says:—“ The auriferous deposit traversing your lease and, I believe miles of the adjacent country yet unexplored, is a true lode, rich in gold and composed entirely of quartz, ban led and hired with the slates and minerals of the country, banded in structure, solid and firm, almost vertical in position persistent in character, and at the great depth yet acquired in your mine, 020 foot, is 5 feet thick with a tendency to enlarge in the dip and strike. It contains the ores load, silver, iron, and antimony as associated minerals. Geologically considered it holds a favorable position. The excellence and importance of the lino of reef to the district has not been locally apprehended.

At the quarterly meeting of the Auckland Licensed Victuallers’ Association it was decided not to interfere with the working of the Licensing Act, but to accept its conditions as moderate on the whole, and show themselves prepared to administer the Act fairly. Mr Thomson, consulting engineer, in his report on the New Plymouth harbour, says : -The break water is finished for a length -105 ft.; the work has boon well and carefully done, and has stood without any perceptible sinking. An estimate of the cost of the work done from Bth December, to January 7th shows a very favorable result ■ 51 lineal feet of the breakwater lias been constructed, containing 1002 yards of concrete, costing 25s 10JI per yard in the block yard. There are 20.5 yards extra blocks, costing ISs 241 per yard quarry, ■costing Is 101.” The resident engineer, lUiin.l, forwards a report, which is very satisfactory, and bears out all Mr Thomson has stated.

The Grand Lodge of Good Templars hold a sitting at New Plymouth ou January 13, when, among other matters which came under consideration, was the question of founding a temperance scholarship in connection with the New Zealand University. It was resolved to recommend the subject to the various temperance orgonisations in the colony, with a view of raising the necessary funds.

'The crops in South Canterbury aro not expected to yield a high average this season. There have been dry spells at the wrong times, diminishing growth and shrivelling the grain. Great diversities in the accounts from the different parts of the district make it difficult to form a general estimate. Some parts had no lack of rain, while m others the crops wore burnt up at times.