INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1561, 5 March 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A great tangi has been hold over Tu Tawhiao, at Whatiwhatihoe, Auckland. Including & contingent from Tauranga, several hundred Natives were present. No liqucw was indulged in, but some of the most disgusting hakas ever witnessed were performed. The young girls appeared to have lost all sense of modesty. Cased of typhoid and scarlet fever are datlv reported at Auckland,

Four Native prisoners have been committed for trial at Gisborne, for the murder of a native and his wife. The hearing occupied seven days. Twentyfive witnesses were examined', and the costs of the prosecution will be very heavy, as all the witnesses Jive a long way inland. In recognition of past hospitalities, the Europeans at Gisborne intend to entertain a number of native chiefs at a

banquet, athletic sports, and display of fireworks. The affair is creating great interest, and liberal subscriptions are coming in.

The Wellington Harbor Board have ndopted a scheme prepared by Mr Ferguson, their Engineer, for using hydraulic machinery on the wharves. The cost is estimated at £14,000, but it is said it will greatly reduce the manual labor dow required, besides facilitating various operations. H.M.S. Nelson is expected to leave Wellington at the end of the week for Hobart. She will put into Akaroa, aod Admiral Tryon will proceed thence to Lytrelton, and by rail to Dunedin. The We'lington Evening Post and Press Association on Wednesday received letters from Bell, Gully and Izard, represen ing Messrs McMahon and Leitch, demanding an apology aud reasonable recompense for alleged inconvenience and loss sustained by the publicntion of a statement la&t month regarding the circumstances connected with their departure to Fiii, The total insurances on the property destroyed at Welling loo - h'st Sunday amounted to £68,425. A case of drowning occurred at Oollingwood, Nelson, on Monday, the victim being a young man named Felloes, abouc twenty-two, of Takaku. He had been rabbit shooting, and riding home hie horse w»s seen to enter the River Tainawha. Shortly after it emerged riderless.

The hop crop at Nelson will soon bo gathered in, but the yield is rery small, owing to a great extent bo a storm experieuced a few weeks ago. At Motueka ihe yield will not exceed six to six and a holf.hundred-weight to the acre instead of fifteen hundred-weight. in the neighborhood of town, the yield will not be larger, but the Bales should be good,