INTERPROVENCIAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10237, 3 July 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVENCIAL.

(per united pbess association ) -, AUCKLAND. July 2. Mr McDonald, the Harbour Board Engineer, was a passenger by the mail steamer for Sydney, with the plans for the dock, to consult Mr Wardell, 0.E., of Sydney. . He goes to Melbourne to inspect theWilliamstown dock. Faughly and Welsh, gumdiggers, are supposed to have been drowned while bathing at Kaipara. The former is a relation of a contractor at Auckland. The latter is not known to havß any relatives in tho colony, Mr J. Weaver, passenger by the Oity of New York, comes to New Zealand in the interest of- the Standard Oil Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, to bore oil wells here. Koss, late of Woodyear and Eoss, circus proprietors, died of consumption on board the City of New Yoik during her last trip from Auckland to San Francisco. CHRISTCHURCH. July 2. Special, services were held at the Wealeyan Churches hero yesterday in. memory of the lato Eevs. Thomas Buddie and Hobbs. The lonic, which arrived yssterday from Port Chalmers, will te.hu in about 3000 sheop at Lyttelton. A cottage was destroyed hy fire at Sydenharn this morning. The insurances are unknown. A child two years old was burna:7 to death at Le Bon's Bay on Tuesday last. It was loft by its mother in the kitchen, and must have ignited its clothes at the lire. There were so many visitors to the lonic to-day as to interfere with the work on board, and no more will be allowed till Thursday. A committee of the Chamber of Commerce, at a special meeting, passed the following :— That the conmittee of this Chamber believe the proposed Bankruptcy Bill to be a great improvement on the existing Acts, and express the hope that the Canterbury members in the House of Representatives will use their influence in securing the passing of the Bill during the present session of Parliament. That the forgoing resolutions be communicated to the" various Canterbury representatives. That the PiX'" " ;£ telegraph the foregoing to the various Chambers of Commerce in New Zealand, with the request that they , communicate with their members to a similar effect. Tho following ia a comparative stato- ' merit of the Customs at Christchuroh, the firat sum in each case bpinsf for ISB2 and tho seooudfor 1883 : — Spirits, £15017, .i'60!)0; cigars, JB2IS. £177: fcobieoo,

£1906, £1740 ; wine, £859, £658 ; beer, £347, £421 ; tea, £887, ±1780 ; coffee, .680, ; sugar, £1229, £1054 ; goods by weight, i' 965, £685 ; ad valorem, £2224, £1469 ; other duties, £900, £348. Totals, £16,537, £13,513; beer duly, £910, £998. BUNEDIN. 2. ?"Itis stafea that Mr Fish, M.H.B.,ha» resigned the chairmanship and member.ship of the Harbour Board; . ' ' In a recent case at the Supreme Court a point as to costs was reß.ervedjmfil todayr^His" Honor "gave judgment for costs on the whole amount recovered, including the sUm ; paid"intb Court. Ho said he bad communicated with all the Judges of the colony regarding the rjoint whether costs! Bhonld;.bet'given"on an amount paid in.: They had agreed with him that they should be. ■ • . . ..