INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 2 November 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(per united press association.) ' AUCKLAND. .November 1. Mr Seymour George addressed his Rodney, constituents last night, at Amtapu Hall. There was a large attendance,' and a unanimous vote of confidence .and thanks was .passed. ; ■ ■ Dr Philson retires from :the post 'of medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital. •• - ■ , i At a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery it resolved itself, into committee to consider charges against the^' Rev. Moses Breach., of New Plymouth;' Six. charges of different acts' of • contumacy were formulated; Mr Breach did toot appear. " ' ' " ' , The dispute between the Builders Association and the Auckland Institute of Architects is still unsettled. Till an agreement is come to it will affect new building operations. The owner of the barque Gazelle, recently seized by H.M.'a Customs for breach of the Customs Act, still declines to accept • the terms offered by the Government, and the vessel accordingly continues to be at adcborage in charge of hte officers of the Customs Department. Some time ago the ketch Adah left Auckland for the Lord Howe Island, having on board Mr William. Eoe and a party of men proceeding thither with the intention of bringing to New Zea-. land 20 or 30 tons of tin ore fouud on that island, for testing purposes. The party are expected to return here in about three weeks. An Auckland expressman drew Assyrian in the " Zoo Jumbo " consultation, and an Auckland draper drew Gudarz. , ALEX&NDRA. November 1. Tawhiao and Te Wheoro came in to see Mr Bryce this day, and are now with him. It is uncertain whether there will be any meeting till to-morrow, Major Te Wheoro, M.H.R., thinks the difficulty of providing for the Waikatos could he met by Government giving the tribe the remainder of the unsold land in the block promised to the Kingites .by Sir Donald McLean, if as much remains unsold as he believes to exist. According to his statements, Mr Bryce has not yet made any definite offer to provide for the Waikatos. The' meeting takes place to-morrow afternoon. GISBOBNE. November 1. A meeting has been held for the purpose of forming an Electric Light Company. It was decided to ask the Borough Council if they would undertake to light the town, and, if not, if the Oouncil would allow the company to do so. NAPIER. November 1. The Old Englishe Fancy Fayre was concluded to-day. The takings have been- over £800. Visitors who have seen other fancy fayres in the colony say that this was by far the most complete. The whole arrangements were designed and carried out by Mr Briggs, the scenic artist of the theatre. The Hawke's Bay Meat Company haß been successfully, floated, applications for shares being far more than, the number to be allotted. - . Allan Maclean, who recently purchased Foul Play, has resold it to Mr Broomfleld, of Poverty Bay, for £500. Customs revenue for October is .£4685, of which £2304 was collected at the port, and £2370 at the branch Customhouse recently opened in Napier. WELLINGTON. November 1. Major Atkinson returned to-night in the Stella. The Wairarapa Agricultural and Pastoral Show at Carterton to-day was a great success. Upwards of 300 persons went up from town by an excursion train. Before the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Richmond in banco to-day Mr Chapman, on behalf of the Law Society, moved for a rule absolute in re Edward Francis Ward. Mr Stafford, with whom was Mr Hall, appeared to show cause on the other side. Judgment was reserved. The Customs duties collected for the port of Wellington for .the month ending 31st October amounted' to .£16,043, while for the corresponding month last year they were only £15,224 9s 3d. GREYMOUTH. ■ : ■ November 1. The Customs duties collected during October were £2926 ; for the corresponding month of 1881, £2440; gold duty, £813; beer duty (excise), £56 XUSi The' Magistrate to-day fined a trader one pound*for illegal pawnbroMng, he having no license. The defence was that the goods had been purchased. CHRISTCHUECH. November h The chairman of the Selwyn County Council to-day said he "had heard that, seven millions v t\f money had already been applied for" under the Roads and bridges Construction Act.

: . The Mayor ; of ''iA'sh'burton, and Mr , Marsh, secretary of 'the Charitable Aid Board, have .been/appointed to conduct an inquiry' into the case of an old man at' the Ashburtpn Home, who alleged that he had been assaulted by the -, master. The Customs revenue for Ootober, 1882, was £18,551 against £16,532 last year. Some new gas lamps have been tried at Lyttelton with oval tops and brass reflectors, which,, are.. found- to ogive an unusually large light at the expense of less than twice the amount of gas consumed by-an ordinary burner. The new arrangement is an admissable one for steamers, lighting the wharves, and not much more costly than the' existing system. The Melbourne races caused unusual efforts to be made by theevening papers here. One of them published an edition on the Derby arid Cup nights' containing the result in full before 7 'o'clock 'each, night; and the others were issuing 'extras • until a late hour in the evening;..".! The "V.R.C. meeting has completely^'dvershadowed our own.' No prie was heard to mention them until the 'Cup .was' decided) and the daily papers', were -full of training notes, &c.', weekte ago, and have ' only just begun to take any notice of the Canterbury Jockey Club. One of the two recently constituted town districts applied, for, a share of the license fees from the County .-Odnboil, but on the strength 'of' a' legal opinion the Council refused-' to-'-reobgiuW^ the . claim. " '• ' ; ' : ■'-..'I I -!!: ■) ixr:.,. > Seven men on Snndav m ight .made a round of the brothelsan' r towni' aboking ,the inmates, demanding liquor, smashing furniture, '&c, and/gene'r&lly' : '(jenaT' ing in a J di3graceful " and ' cowardly manner. They were arrested yesterday and appeared ".before, the Cdurt-'tolday. Evidence was given. aflength'.'of. their proceedings, .and' various' technical* objections were made , to- .some.t«f the charges as not. tenable under the particular. Act under- which th'eyiweretlaid. One information was dismissed, -biftf the Resident, Magistrate : "considered the others^ upheld.; One of r the prisonera, who was shown to have "endeavoured to • restrain his companions, was let off, and Mr Whiteford Said the others I 'appeared to .have gone' from house to house of these women, and .behaved' in 'a' most blackguardly and 'disgraceful manner. It was not to .be tolerated -tnafjibVcanse these women lived .as', ! tliey c ßM'*that defendants should conduct , themselves as they had. There was .npexguaefor such disgraceful conductj and if : %* last three informations with wbiph^nflAwas dealing— viz.; two charges-of-.destruc-tion of property andrthe obscene language, had been.lai-J under anbfherJAbt he would have sent the adeused-to gaol without the optibhof a fine."' "'As'ifi^ras they would, with' the Exception of Haddrell, ibe fined- £2 on eactt rl 'bf t: WreA charges, or £6 a piece, and; also ordered t to pay the^amount of ,damages, J £6 10s, * between them', and in defaulf'^e^ch' to undergo 21 days' imprisonment.' '." 'A fatal affray fook "place. at'Hoforata yesterday.; Twp, men named Perrytand Hobb's had a fight, which was^prpvoked by the former., After, , one ..round! Ethe men closed and fell to the ground, from which Perry never rose again. Hobbs -. . bore the reputation of being quiet 'and sober, while Perry was quarrelsome and ' ' eccentric, and was said tohaye : been in 4 . the lunatic asylum. ,- ' ■'•• "xiMATiU,";.'.'r>.!!.,,vi.'"-- --\ - " ~ November^!. At the inquest to day on the body-of ■ . Captain Eichard ; s7hite, who;expired.in '. court on Monday,; a verdi6t,',pf.d v eath" from natural causes was returned."*^/ • :• I ". At the Board of .Bducationitq-day, it -..' : was deterniined to.adhere : to;the ; resolii- ,'„ tion to give notice -to" the present -head ". master, head-mistress, and twb"'piipil teachers of the Timaru Public School! : A splendid fishing bank has been'dis- '"■- --covered about six miles due east ''of Timaru, in twelve fathoms of water. Steps will be takea to work it without ' delay as hitherto Timaru and district have been dependent on Christchurch and Dunedin for a supply of fish. DTJNBDIN. ■- October. 31; In the Fidelity Company's sweep tiie first prize of £900 goes to a butcher in Dunedin. ' .-. ' a On the tram line, Ocean Beach,','today, a four-year-old child had 'a narrow escape from being run 6yer..- J lt>,suddenly darted right in front of the .wheels, but a passenger on the platform, with, much, presence of mind, stooped down ' and seized it by the clothes just in time to save it? ■,'■.■,-'■ The Customs returns for the month, are £30,206, as compared with £30,809 for the corresponding month last year. • The Public Works Department are pegging out a site for the battery' on Lawer's Head, overlooking the' -Ocean Beach. '. ''■ '' ''; At the City Council meeting to-night it was resolved to notify all the larger ; consumers of, water for motive, pow.er that their supplies will be discontinued. r The principal reason for this is inadequacy of existing mains for conducting water from Silver Stream. . ■ vi Colonel. Tupman and party, whq"have been sent out by the Imperial Government to observe the transit of Venus, are expected to arrive at the Bluff on the 3rd or 4th November. Tbey will probably select Burnham, in Canterbury, as the spot from which to take observations. ' , November i,'Over £2000 passed through the;totalisator here in connection with the Clip in one day. The winner paid a dividend of £122. ':•:■;. it The first prizo in one of' the large sweeps goes to Dunedin, and second to Timaru. „, ..-•:•• The committee of the : Dunedin Chamber of Commerce' has declined,'in the fac<3 of the Middle Island engineer's report, and of the report of the "commissioners appointed by- 'the ehiistchurch Chamber of Commerce, to , give their assistance to the Eeefton Railway League in pushing on the'. West Coast line. ' ■ ; In the case heard a day or .two ago of Goodison v. Edmond, a claim for a horse sold to defendant, who pleadei that he was drunk, and that the whole affair was a swindle, the . Resident Magistrate gave a verdict, for defendant, stating that in his opinion defendant must have been drunk or tern* porarily insane. Ifp t doubt he was drunk to Goodison's knowledge. The Colonial Secretary leaves here for Wellington on Monday.