INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1625, 25 August 1887, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

After a lengthened hearing the judgment of the Native Lands Court at Rotorua, regarding the ownership of the Rofomahana-Harekarangi block of 211,000 acres, whs eiven on Saturday. The bulk of the b.ock was awarded to the Tohaurangi tribe, a small portion being given to otliar Native claimants. In accordance with the Civil Service Act the first vacancy which has occurred since last examination was offered to the candidate highest on the liat, who turned out to be Miss Fletcher, of Auckland. Jt waa found there was nothing to debar a woman from the appointment, and Mias Fletcher was accordingly offered the cadetship in the Government Insurance Department. After some apparent hesitation the youn; lady has, however, declined to enforce her right. A five-roomed cottage, situated at Kaiwarra, Wellington, owned and occupied by James Flaws, was destroyed by fire on Monday. Several buildings adjacent had a narrow escape. The origin is unknown. Flaws estimates bis loss at £IOO oyer the insurance, which amounts to £75 in the National. At a meeting of the Qreymouth Harbor Board on Monday evening it waa resolved to make a deviation of the railway line from Cobden quarry to the north wall by carrying it along to the right, out of reach of the floods, the other line having been twice washed away. The contractor will be allowed £IBOO for making a new line and repairing the original one. The cost of making the deviation is estimated at £4097. The contractors will have to bear £7OO of the expense themselves. As the Board’s solicitor advised that the purchase of the tug Westland could not be arranged by arbitration, it was resolved to ask the owners what in the lowest price they will sell for. Efforts are being made to float a company in London to work the Casswell Sound marble deposits. The capital of the proposed Company is set down at £IOC,OOO, in 10,00 G shares of £lO each. It is contemplated to purchase a steamer in Great Britain to fetch marble from Casswell Sound to Wellington, where most of it will be transhipped for London. The trade, however, will not bo sufficiently large to employ the steamer the whole of her time, and it is proposed that she should occasionally run a cargo of coal from Greymouth to Wellington, Lyttelton, or London. Mr Justice William*, in Bankruptcy, at Dunedin, on Monday, refused the application on behalf of S. S. Hutchison to have his discharge. Hutchison is at present in Melbourne, where ho is said to be doing well. The work of surveying a road through Mauogakawa block, Cambidge, has been stopped by Natives. When it was known the surveyors wore going to work on Maori land, a messenger was sent to the King, Tawhiao, asking him what was to be done. The King replied that he did not wish the work to proceed, and warned { the surveyors that they would go on with it at their peril. Mr Cussen, surveyor, was then formally notified not to proceed,, and has since returned to Hamilton, Constables Wild and Lowther, who were sent to render assistance have returned. A telegram to hand on Wednesday says : “It seems that the Native trouble, re Maungakahi, amounts to a very small matter. The reason the Natives resisted the survey is said to have been throughthe fear they would be rated for its maintenance, and it is probable but little resistance will be off-red. The survey staff are sti'l on the gmund writing instructiona.” .