INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1729, 26 April 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

All the Ministers, with the exception of the Defence Minister, are now in Wellington, and Cabinet meetings are to 1)0 held daily. Sir James Hector has visited the lignite deposits on the Waingawa, near Maaterton. He reports them of too recent origin to give a chance of finding substantial coal measures. The strata premise better results for gold than for coal. Ihe new Roman Catholic church of St. Benedict, Newton, Auckland, erected on the site of the first St. Benedict’s Church, destroyed by fire, was consecrated on Tuesday. Bishop Luck and Archbishop Redwood were present and £243 was subscribed in aid of the church.

Messrs G. Eraser and Sons, Auckland, have just completed a small crushing of very rich ore at their reducing pans, Phoenix Eoundry, for some prospectors. The locality of the find is on the Coromandel peninsula between the head of the Manaia and Mercury Bay. The total quantity crushed was 61b of stooe, the result of which was lOfoz of gold value over £8 per ounce. It was in fact nearly pure gold, containing u very small proportion of silver. The result is equal to a value of £llOO to the ton, and the whole cost of the treatment of the parcel was only 10s. Sophia Kidd was charged on Monday at Winton with stealing sixteen head of cattle, the property of Alexander Ross, Eorest Hill, and remanded for a week, bail being allowed in two sureties of £SO each. It was alleged that accused drove the cattle to Gore, a distance of twenty miles, and there sold them, giving the name of Mrs Allan. She is the daughter of a landowner of the same name, and is of very attractive appearance and a noted horsewoman. The English football team arrived by the Kuikoura at Dunedin on Monday. A Erenchraan named Lamorte was i drowned at Castlepoint, Wellington, on Tuesday night. He was crossing the reefs to fish, when the waves washed him away. His body has been recovered. The Westport Harbour Board has given all permanent hands three months’ notice, and it will dispense with others. It has also given the chairman power to take measures to assimilate wages to those paid in other parts of the colony.