INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1705, 1 March 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

It-is statedat New Plymouth that the steamer Ballenaer, whicn went on the 1 Waiongonga reef, off the Waiter* rirer, on is insured for £SOOO in the Victorian office,, part of which is reinsured.

Sir j. Hector has received a cablegram from Mr Seed, stating.that i»n extension of space has been granted to the Melbourne Bxklbition, Our exhibitors are now guaranteed 10,000 feet and probably more, . Mp the main bonding. 'lt is understood that one result of the recent., visit of the Minister of Public ""'tfbrlrt to the West Coast is that the barfeor works at both Grey mouth and WMport will be taken ovor by the Governnrav ■?•« Jit Angus McMasters, one of the oldest ie\tlers in the Wairarapn, died at Grey- \ 'town on Saturday, aged eighty-eight He : •hid been in the district forty-seven years. '",.■' Mr E. Brooke Smith, New Zealand ' representative of Ball's patent dredger, ' returned frbnj London by the Rimuv taka, bringing with hiss the plant bordered by the Okarito Goldmining • Company some months ago. The dredger is a powerful machine, and capable, of lifting 250 tons of sand atd water pei honr. It is to be shipped to tLe West Coast v soon as possible. Thei Minister of Lands has received a XJbinmuoication. from the North to the efre'et that; if tobacco is burned near stand'ing'wheat affected by the Hessian fly in a few minutes every ly is dead. Tha Seacliff Asylum enquiry was conoluded on, Monday, when Mr Gore i (contractor), Mr Blair (Works Deputment), Mr/Lawson (architect), and Mr Srindley *'(clerk of work*) made speeches reviewing the evidence.

A boy named Burgees was killed in Hilland Bash on Monday evening by the fall of a tree.

The Invercargill garrison band havo accepted the tender of the New Zealand Clothing Factory Company for new uniforms.

The revenue of the Oamaru Harbor Board increased by about £IOOO during the year. At Ohristchurch at the adjourned inquest on the body of Robert Wallace, who died on the -14th February, it was supposed from injuries received on the 19th January in a scuffle at a hotel after the Kowai races, the jury found that death bad resulted from blood poisoning. A public meeting at Milton carried a resolution affirming the desirability of encouraging distillation by an increase of import duty or a reduction in excise or both.

Government have declined to remove the prohibition on the importation of stock into New Zealand. The prohibition might have been removed if any benefit would have accrued, but as the colony is now well stocked with all classes of cattle, the removal of the prohibition is considered unnecessary.