INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1614, 30 July 1887, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Bank, Dunedin, the report declaring a dividend of seven per cent, was adopted, and a resolution changing the date of balancing was confirmed. The Hon. G. McLean, the Chairman, in his remarks said he did not see there was anything to fear with regard to the colony ; if they could establish confidence they would get on better. Ho sUtedJthat of the deposits three-fourths were of suras of £3OO and under, showing that the acquired capital of the colony was spread over a considerable number.

Fish are so plentiful at Tauranga that they are selling at half-a-crown a cartload.

Ann Parker, charged at Wellington with stealing a watch from a body washed ashore, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment.

Two hundred and eighty tons of gun cotton, in four charges, were fired at the submerged hulk of the Eli Whitney off the end of the Railway Wharf, Wellington, on Wednesday afternoon. The explosion was felt over a great part of the town, and a large number of fish were killed. But little timber came to (he surface, and it is not yet known whether the attempt has been more successful than former experiments in the same direction. It is stated that Mr Maxwell, General Manager of the New Zealand Railways, has obtained six months leave of absence, and has left on a visit to Europe. He is accredited by the Government to the Conference of Railway Engineers and Managers about to be held in Milan. The Premier visited the new Calliope dock at Auckland on Thursday morning. He was much impressed with the magnitude of the work, and said that the fact of Auckland possessing such a dock practically settled the question of the location of the head-quarters for ships of war in New Zealand. He further remarked that the harbor was the beat in the colony.

Major Atkinson will address a public meeting at Wellington, probably on the 4th August. Mr W. Adams’ Windwhlsjle Hotel, at Coa’gate, was burned down on Wednesday. It was insured for £SOO. At a meeting of the Dunedin Harbor Board on Thursday a letter was received asking the amount the Board was prepared to pay for dredging the bar to a depth of 27ft at low water within nine months. Tbe apparatus to be used tor this is Wellman’s patenr. A dredge on this principle has b u en recently erected on the Molyneaux for dredging the river for gold. The matter was referred to the Works Committee.

A boy named Arthur Mosley recovered £27 on Thursday in theDonedin Supreme Court for injuries sustained by being bitten by a dog belonging to the defendant, Alexander Montgomery. The weather at Hokitika is very suitable for mining operations, and there haa been sufficient rainfall to keep all sluicing claims in full operation.