INTERPROPINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1663, 22 November 1887, Page 4

INTERPROPINCIAL NEWS.

A seam of coal has boon found at Toimko and from the present appearances is likely to be workable. This is the first conl found in the Tauranga district. The Wellington City Council have decided to resist the foreshore claims of Luk-.-and Sons., for £26,500, aud of T. G. , McGflrkcy for £6oi:o. A slight outbreak of scab hag bren discovered on David Kerr's run at Motopiko, Nelson. It is supposed to have como from wild sheep in the bush. At the Dunediii Chamber of Commerce meeting Mr Denniston, the chairman, r< ■- f«rrod at length to the Bankruptcy Act and said the question arose whether it would not be better to be without the Act altogether. The process of whitewashing was too ef.sy, and the penal clauses were nearly a dead letter through the disinclination of judges to act as judge and jury. The small average returns from estates was aiother thing. Formerly 10s in tin- £ could be counted upon, but now they had to be content with 2s 6d. By a fire in the Wellington Club on Friday morning damage to the value of £2OOO was done to the furniture and £IOOO to the building. Whilst a railway porter named Oliver Leach was engaged iu shunting at H>ni ilton, Auckland, a truck passed over his legs and arms and nearly seveicd them. The funeral of the late' Hon. Wi I'ako, M.L.C., who died at Wellington recent'y, took plice on Sunday, and wis attended bv an immense number of persons. Members of the Cabinet, numerous members of. both Houses of Parliament, and the Mayor and principal citizens of Wellington were present. A passenger train conveyed fully 3000 persons to the scene of the funeral, and in their anxiety to ! obtain seats (several ladies allowed tliema.dvea to be dragged through the windows of railway carriages. Tt is expacted that the feast will cent £SOO.