INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1562, 8 March 1887, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The Mount Eden Highway Oistrict (Auckland) has resolved to borrow £7580 to provide a water supply. The poll on Saturday whored a Urge majority of ratepayers in favor. The coal miner* at Kakakawa, Bay of Islands, have struck work on account of the shareholders giving notice of a reduction of wages amounting to 15 per cent. The men offrfr to accept a 5 per cent, re- ! duction. It ia slated the former wages were 8s per day, but the men could only 1 work eight days in s. fortnight. A man named Thomas Reynolds was found drowned on Sunday morning at the mouth of the Ngamawaro riper, Hawkes Bay. He was suffering from melancholy when he weQt to bed on Friday night. His wife, who occupied a separate room, rose to call him on Saturday morning and found him gone. Search was made all that day, aud on Sunday the body was found on the loach. Reynolds, who was an old citiz>n, was the first butcher in Napiur, and aftewards kept an hotel at Havelock, near Hastings. A telegram from Blenheim says a fire at Robinson's flix mill, Wairau Peninsula, on Sunday, destroyed a scutcher and five tons of flax. The loss is estimated at from £l5O to £2OO and is uninsured.

A fire broke out on Monday morning in the stables of the Albion Ciub Hotel, Gisborne and it spread to the Hotel and the Loan and Mercantile Agency's buildingH adjoining. At 10 a.m. it caught the buildings on the opposite side, but in that quarter it was epeediiy put out. Afire at Lawrence yesterday destroyed tie [premises of AlcNicol, storekeeper ; M'ddlemas, blacksmith, and S. Wilson and Co., storekeepers. The latter were injured in the Equitable and Union offices for £4OO, on the buiiding and £BSO on the stock.

The Government steamer Stella returned to the Bluff on Monday after a thorough search for the missing boat's crew. AH the islands in Foveaux Straits were carefully examined, but no trace of men or wreckage could be found. Two women limned Margaret Clark, alias Tongood, und Po'ly Price, were committed for trial at Dunedin on Siturday for robbing George Bremuer, master mariner, of £lO.