INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 20, 1 August 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(per united press association.) Wellington, This Day. The petition praying for the reprieve of Louis Chemis will be presented to the Governor at Government House thi3 afternoon. The petition, which bears 8,870 signatures, will be presented by Dr Newman and Messrs Nicholas Fernandez, W. H. Warren, and J. Maginnity. The Honorable Messrs Larnach and Valentine, M.H.B.s, had an important interview with the Premier this morning on the subject of his government taking active steps to assist the other colonies of Australia in their endeavors to strengthen the claims of Western Australia for responsible government. The Premier replied the Government were in full sympathy with the movement and he was ready most heartily to co-operate in that direction with the other colonies to obtain for Western Australia what she desires ; giving her control in the tempt rate zone. Auckland.. July 31. The Colonial Sugar Refining Company have reduced the prices of sugar as fcl* lows :— Nos. 1 aud 2, £3 per ton : No 3; £2 10a; cubes, £1. Since March, when the export of flax to San Francisco commenced, 443 tons have been sent out, of which 91 tons was the product of Auckland and 352 of the South, chiefly Wellington. The selling price in England does not warrant mure than about £18 to £20 beitig paid here, while the American demands keep the price up to £25. The San Francisco service is thus, worth £7 per ton to New Zealand. The New Kaoutunu goldtield, near Coromandel is described by a correspondent in the Herald as having splendid prospects. He thinks the field the best which has been opened since the discovery of the Thames, and says he has never seen a place where the show of gold is so general where the country is of fine sandstone. Roads to the field are much wanted. There are several prospectors on the ground. The Schooner Dunedin is about to load with stores, building material, &c, at Auckland,, and will leave for the Ker madec Wands next month with a party of settlers, who intend to make their homes there. Ddnbdin, July 31. A lad named John Edmonds had his arm torn off above the elbow yesterday through becoming entangled in the machinery of the rope works where he was employed. The result of the crushing of 4 tons of stone from the Blue Slate Company of Nenthorua was at the rate of 2oz 7dwt 16gr per ton. A large reef is reported to have been discovered at Fiddlers Creek, Nenthorne, and some fifteen or twenty claims have bena pegged out. An assay of pyrites from the Eureka Company's claim yielded at the rate of 32bz 13dwtper ton. The gold is alloyed>-aa- usual, with silver, but the aesayec reports that of the manj'. samplgaiofrpyrites hehas examined for gold Ems was the richest. • Edward McGlashan, one of the pioneer* -settlers of OSago, died last night, aged 72. Nklson, This Day. Lord Oranley's illness, has developed into typhoid, evidently contracted in Wellington. . ~