INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1672, 13 December 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A discovery of a lode of jet has been made near Fernbridge, at the base of the Tarama ranges, on the banka of the Vcaipou river. Coal is supposed to exist in the same locality. Hearn will leave Wellington for Sydney on Thursday, to take part in the Centennial regatta. A messenger from the manager of the South Pacific Oil Co.arrived in Gisborne on Friday night with a letter urging Messrs Maude and Carlow Smith (the local Secretary) to go up at once. These gentlemen started out next morning. The messenger stated that oil was rising over the top of the pipes, gushing up freely. Mr J. C. Brown, of Otago, who returned from England by the 'Frisco mail steamer, informed an Auckland reporter that, whilein England, he made a searching inspection into the condition of the frozen meat trade, and he has arrived at the conclusion that whilst it is conducted on the present lines it will never pay the producers. The profits are swallowed up by the agents and triddlemen, who sell to dealers, quite irrespective of such palty considerations as the price ‘hey obtain. All they want is sufficient for the payment of themselves. Mr Brown has entered into an arrangement for the establishment of agencies in tho colony to purchase approved meat for twe or three years at fixed rates, say or l|d per lb. free on board. INows from Apia, Samoa, is to the effect that the town is still occupied with armed forces by the Germans, it appears that at a conference held at Washington re Samoan affairs, Germany asked for mandatory powers for five years. England was in favor of this proposal, which was so strenuously opposed by America that the conference broke up without any result.

At Patea a young boy named Locker, when playing on the beach near the stranded steamer Waverley, found a dynamite cap, and while throwing it to his mother it exploded, blowing off two of the top joints of the thumb and mutilating the second finger.

Dr Pollen has intimated his intention to resign his position as a member of the Legislative Council at the end of the session.

Mr O’Conor M.H.R., has received a telegram stating that payable gold has been found on the Mokihinui fiat, with two feet of wash dirt and forty feet sinking, also that the prospectors have applied for a lease. About fifteen years ago a large rush took place to Mokihinui, and a quantity of gold was obtained from this flat.

John Taylor, aged 18, was killed on Friday while felling timber in the bush at Dovedale, Nelson. lie left his mates to fell a tree, and was subsequently found by them with a fractured skull. At the District Court, Westport, on Friday, Daniel Maloney and Win. Dolan, two boys, were charged with malicious injury to property in the Presbyterian Church. They were released on probation, their parents to enter into recognisances of £SO for their good behaviour for six months. The cutter Lizzie has gone ashore at Long Point. She left Dunedin an Tuesday with a cargo for Gatlin’s River, in charge of her owner, Captain Charles G. Hayward, for many years harbour-master at Gatlin’s River. The crew consisted of Frank Hayward, bis son, Andrew Hayward another son, and William Wi'son. Andrew Hayward, who is a powerful swimmer, was the only one who succeeded in gaining the shore. He then walked from the bay to Owake, where his family live.

A remarkably sudden death occurred at Invercargill on Friday night. A servant girl named Jane Johnston, aged seventeen, went to the door of her employer’s house to answer a knock. On entering the door of the parlour to deliver the message she fell on the floor dead. She was previously in excellent health and spirits. Heart disease was the cause.