INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 601, 8 November 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(FEB UNITED PRFBB ASSOCIATION.) At/cklahd, This Day. Arrived — Barque Kirkdale from Tourabay. On the L9th of Ootober. when off Wilson Promontory, itroig W.S.W. gales sprung up, and the barque shipped large quantities of water. One sea breaking on board smashed one of the boats, carrying away skids, and com* passes. The gile wntii:ued 30 hours, and when it lulled and a muster of tho men took place It- was found one of the

crew, Thomas Little, ordinary seaman and a single man, was mixsiug. it is supposed the poor fellow was washed overboard by one of the heavy seas. Partnership of the firm of Thome and Bigby has been di.solved. Bifiby ,^eft by the mail steamer for San Fransisco I yesterday, and stated he would go to • England and settle affairs and return here. Arrived— this morning ship Zealandia from London. The ship's cook died of general debility on 28th August. fiovemb»7. , At the AnglicanJJDiocessan Synod, today, Archdeacon Willis moved, " That, in the opinion of this Synod, it is highly desirable that the Education Act of the Colony be amended, so as to provide for the daily reading in the pnblic schools of selected portions of Scriptures, with literary and historical remarks, and with timetable and conscience clause. 0 The debate on the motion was adjourned, j Gißbobhb, November 7. The following is ft literal translation ! of a telegram received by a Native here, | deted Kihikihi, November 3rd, to Eawena j Turoa, Giiborne :—" Myself and Eewi Manipoto will go on the Bth December from Te Turuki." The Native named is sisterain-law io Te Kooti, and all telegrams and all telegrams and letters received from him of late have been signed le JLaruki. Other Natives are said to have received similar telegrams. Taubanga, November 7. The scheme for the construction of a canal from Tauranga Harbor to Te Puke an important settlement seventeen mile j from here, has again been resuscitated and Mr Purvis, solicitor, who goes Home intends tryiny to afloat it. The canal would go through a block of rick swamp i land, and the idea is to get a grant of land to capitalists willing to carry out the work, which would provide inland comumcation by water and render some thousands of acres of ercelleat swamp land lit for settlement. A petition is being circulated here for the repeal of the Thermal Springs Act. Chbistohitsch, November 7. The contractors for the Midland Bailway state that during the delay and un* certainty about the new contract several employe's have been discharged, and that further reductions in the working stuff will be made if there is no prospect of an early settlement. C. C. Sommers was arrested to«day on a charge of inciting Thomas Farley, of Timaru, to burn down his bookseller's shop. - •' . ■