INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1839, 10 January 1889, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The American ship John Bryce bound from Puget Sound to Melbourne, with timber, was abandoned, disabled, at sea on Bth December in lat. 20 deg. S., long. 165.50 W. One man, M. Wilson, was washed overboard and drowned on the previous day, and the remainder of the crew reached Samoa on the IGt.h in an open boat. A totnra bush, 2000 acres in extent,-in the Waouta district, Auckland, is reported to be on firo. A return compiled by order of the Minister of Education shows that for the last ten years £35,958 have been expended by education boards on plans, supervision, and architects’ foes for echno) buildings. The highest amount was £5906, in 1879 ; and the lowest £2482, iu 1884. The expenditure in 1887 was £2580, A letter has boon received by the Education department from Mr Rorer de Goey, of Osten, Belgium, stating that be is engaged on a work entitled “ Contemporary literature of tbo Anglo-Saxon race,” and asking for books and reviews bearing on New Zealand literature from the foundation of the colony till now, to help him iu his work. The department intend offering Mr Goey every assistance they can. A private letter from a digger who has been many years on the Nevis geld fields, Southland, indicates that there is money to be made there, and instances the caso of a rabbittcr, who, while searching for pelts, noticed auriferous indications about a burrow. He sat. in, and in a few weeks deposited 271 b weight of gold in a bank. The writer says that there is ground available on the field for hundreds, probably thousands, of men, with prospects of making a Wring. The country is very high, and can only be worked in summer, but water is always plentiful. The Gear Meat Company (Wellington), pay a dividend of 10 per cent. Daring the passage of the shin Turakina from London to Wellington, John Thurgood, ordinary seaman, fell overboard while coming from aloft and was drowned. Timothy Dennis, aged 60, on Tuesday fell over a precipice alongside the Ahaura river, West Coast, sixty feet, on to the shingle bed below. He was ki led instantaneously. The body was terribly crushed. Deceased had kept a hotel at Daybsford in f k e oar *y days. Two (ailrace robberies are reported from Nelson Creek, West Coast, J. M. Morris estimates his less at £IOO. Allan and party’s tuilrace w?.s aim robbed, though the race is quite close to their residence.