INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1564, 5 April 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The schooner Buster, which arrived at Auckland on Friday, from the Islands, brought two shipwrecked sailors belonging to the Swedish brigantine Dause, wrecked at Starbuck Island. No lives were lost.

Stone Bros. (Auckland) have received a cable message from Captain Savoy, of the Auckland schooner Energy, stating that the vessel has been totally wrecked near the Clarence river, no lives being lost. The Energy left Melbourne for the Clarence, ia ballast, to load piles back to Melbourne, The Eceigy was a threemasted . wooden schooner, 185 tons register, owned by Stone Bros., Captain Savoy, and Simms and Brown, who purchased her for £2250 some years ago. She is insured iu the New Zealand office for £7OO.

A banquet was given at Oamaru on Friday night in honor of Gunner. ; McOorkindale, winner of the carbine belt. There was a .large number present and the affair was a great success.

In a case.in the Compensation Court, Dunedin, in which Boyd claimed £l3O for land taken by the Minister for Public Works for a road to reach works on the Otago Central, the claimant was awarded £lO2, the Crown to pay the costs of his witnesses. .

It has been decided to form a labor exchange for Otago and Southland, under the Government. Dr Hislop was appointed Chairman, and Mr Colin Allan, Secretary. At the Dunedin Police Court on Friday Martin McDonald, a lad, was fined £2 and costs for assaulting a Chinaman, The accused threw aatone, which struck the Chinaman in the eye, the sight of which has been completely lodt. On Friday morning, shortly after midnight, a new barn on Mr Gardiner’s Birchu’ood property (Southland) was destroyed by fire, which extended to the stacks, and consumed these, together with machines, grass, etc. These were valued at £7OO, and there was no insurances. The barn was insured for £4OO in the New Zealand office.

Amongst the passengers by the Zsalandia was Mr J. T. Camuel, of San Rosa, recently appointed ‘American Consul for Auckland in place of the lute Mr T. T. Gamble.

The Hon. J. Ballance disclaims his intention of giving a forecast of the Government policy in his speech to-night. He says the whole thing is based on n misapprehension, and he does not think it is his place to usurp the functions more properly belonging to the Premier and Colonial Treasurer, and he will leave a general forecast to them, dealing himse f with the bills he intends bringing forward and matters more intimately connected with the department under his control.

The house of Mr G. H. Geddes, East Invercargill, was burned on Saturday afternoon. The insurances are £250 on the house, and £2OO on the furniture.

A supplementary Gazette, containing «n Order-in-Council for the distribution ot the divisable surplus of the Government Insurance Department, was issued on Saturday, The bonus certificates are to be posted immediately to the policyholders, The London actuaries recommended that a £150,000 of th« total profits of £245,010 should be divt ed. The Department states that the sum divisable yields reversionary -bonuses of close on £320,000.

Two oyster men belonging to the cutter Alarm, named Thomas Morgan, aged 25, and Thomas Connor aged 34, are supposed to have been drowned at the Bluff on Friday, They were seen to start for the cutter (at anchor 100 yards from the wharf) in a boat, and it is supposed that the boat capsized and the men were drowned.