INTERPROVINCIAL

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 305, 19 November 1873, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

The hon. Dr Pollen on the 25th of September last, stated in the Legislative Council, that — " He had himself seen Natives hovering about the streets of Auckland who owned an estate of several thousand acre 3. against which there was a charge (under the Act as specified) for surveying work done, amounting to £150 to £200, and he had known that esta c so d for |one shilling an acre to pay the Burveyors; and the unfortunate proprietors went sadly home penniless, feeling that their estae had been ruthlessly and unjustly sacrificed." Our lady readers will be interested in the following, which we take from the Auckland Star :—": — " Among the curiosities of our social statistics we observe that home-marriage s,in the district of Auckland are increasing ajid •ecoming very popular among the people. Thirty-nine of these marriages have been solemnized during the quarter ending Sey~ tember 30. The youug marriageable ladies, we understand, are favourable to tying th« matrimonial knot by mamma's fireside, apart from the vulgar gaze of «he multitude, who make it their business to start and gape on such beautiful occasions.'* The Auckland cricketers are expected to arrive in j°<uuedin before December. They are said to be " dark horses," to use the language of the turf. They are all good cricketers, and there is no " tail " to their eleven. That bSte noir of batstnea a lefthanded bowler, and an awkward brevk from the off, is one of their destructive agents in the bowling line ; and their fielding, and also their batting, are said to be very superior. Colonel Haultain, ia presiding at s recent meeting of the Auckland temperance Society, stated that there were about 2,200 pledged abstainers in Auckland, of whom 1,300 were children. The "rate of carriage fron Dunedin to Cromwell is reported at £14 10s per ton. Several of the largest shearing sheds in tho province of Hawke's Bay have been wholly taken up by Maories this season, the price paid being from 20s to 22s 6d per 100, An extensive brick manufactory, capable of turning oat 70,000 bricks, is about to bo established in Dunedin. A large kiln is to be built on the Hoffman principle of continu • ous burning. During the last debate of the late Session, Sir Cracroft Wilson said :—": — " He was sure that in Canterbury 2000 would find employment during the next six months at such high wages that they could live in idleness daring the remaining half of the year." Sir Cracroft Wilson lately said that Beynolds, O'Eork'a, and Bathgate's official services were not worth £2 per week, An exchange states that sparkling champagne has been produced by a Mr. Wendel, in the Auckland province, from grapes of his own culture. The " Herald" states that the fires which have occurred in Auckland during the last twelve months have destroyed property valued at £50,000. The insurance companies h&vo had to pay about £70,000, and a large number of business people have suffered severely through the stoppage of their business in consequence of these fires. The Freemasons of Canterbury have resolved to establish three scholarships, "which, while assisting the parents of the successful competitors in their education, would also folly enunciate the principles of the Order," They are to be of the annual value -of £25, each tenable for three yearn ; one is to be competed for each year, and "open to the children «f subscribing Masons, and to the children of deceased Masons, vh» may h*v« been subscribing members within £re yeaz* from the date of decease to any lodge in Canterbury." The age of competitors is limited to twelve. The preliminary steps bare been taken Jm» forming a shipping company at Timaru. The number of machine boot and shoo factories ts said to be rapidly increasing ia Christchurch. It may not be inappropriate here to remark that the value of the boots and shoes imported into the colony during the but year reached the large sum of £195,878* th»l - duty alone being over £12,000. Year by t year, however, it is satisfactory to think there «itt be a large decrease in ike value of imports. Some idea (says the Napier Telegraph) tu,f be formed of what the high prices «f wool have done for this province, apart front tha \ large amount of received for their produce by : Bhccpfarmers, by the fact that, wifcbin th* past few months, through the agency «f Me j M. R Miller, no lees than £150,000 "of south- < orn capital has been invested in land and tbe : purchase -of estate in Hawbc's Bay. The parishioner" of the Key. Father Golden presented him with 35 sovereigns, on the occasion of his leaving tbe Thames for Auc - land, A cricket match was lately played in Nelson between tb.efeabroen.aud blacksmiths, in which the latter gained en easy •victory. It is becoming customary in s©m« of tho churcheß in Auckland -to hold what id called a. service of song, which consists .entirely *£ singing. A writer in *v. Auckland ieurnaji snggwfr* that tho production of Manilla hemp (auu*. textilisfr might without difficulty and with great advantage be acclimatised in this colony. The time-honored custom was observed v. Tararu Church of presenting * Bible to the first couple whose nuptials were celebrated im the building. The Hokitika Fire Brigade have ascertained that a new fire- hell would «est at the rate o£ L4O per ton, and L4O for ihe pattern, at ilia Flubbix ¥»Modfj, Bnllwrnt. S3»qy jwafe* l» Swire « bell icem KngftmcL.