INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1792, 20 September 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

It is rumoured that gold has been found in the Waitaka range, close to Blenheim.

There is now no doubt that the passenger drowned at the wreck of the Colonist was S, Lear, a potter, of Otago. Oo September 11th, when the s.s Alameda w<»s in lat. 26 46 S., long. 175.48 W., H. P. Bolton, aged twenty-one, nitive of England (one of the seamen of the vessel), accidentally fell overboard. Lifebuoys were throwD, a boat lowered, | and etery effort made to save him, but Mthout success. He was seen for a few minutes, and then disappeared. The boats searched for an hoar and forty minutes, but h» was not seen again. Stephen Spaulding, who fired the build" ings of the Romuen Dairy Factory about three years ago, made his psoape from the Auckland Lunatic Asylum between two and three o'clock on Monday morning, and is still at large. On the Co'onial Secretary visiting the asylum a few days ago, he a>w Spaulding, and asked him what lie would do if he were sent away from the asylum. Spauldirg said he would make a publio statement as to how things were conduc ed at the asylum. JED> has kept a diary of all that has taken place. He escaped by uDscrewing the fastening of a window, and lowering himself by sheets, The prospectus of the Waipawa Indus'rial and Art Exhibition has just been issued, in which exhibits are invited f" m «11 over the colony. The Minister of Publ c Works has ordered all exhibits to be carried free on the New Zealand rai - ways und the Union s.s. Company will Citry them for freight one way. Everything points to the exhibition being a success. The opening day will be a general hoi day, with special trains, a childien'x/efe, and bo on. The buildings r* now |in course of emotion, and the gr mnda are all marked off wherein are to be displayed the non-perishable goods. A.M the leading gentlemen of Hawke's Bay are down us patrons of the show, On Tuesday evening, Sir William Fox addressed a crowded meeting in ti.e Congregational School, Chris'churcb. He combatted Mr Alfred Saunders* assertion thfit it was preferable to estab ish a Government distillery to make spirits in the colony than to send Home for tre-n, a« it was impossible that the consumption of spirits would ever cease. Sir WMiam Fox contended thai; this would place an enormous power in the hands of the yovmraent, who would be cbla to manipulate the grain market so as to gain tliH support of the farmers at election j time". Mr Saunders replied, JJn denied | Sir Willi-im Fox's assbrtio'is. A voto of j thanks was passed tc both speakers. j