INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1026, 29 November 1872, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A prisoner in the Dunedin gaol named Gallagher received twelvo lashes a short time since for insubor. dinntion. Bishop Neville, with a number of clergyman oftleEpiscopalcommunion has arrived at Dunedin. The bishop will reside at Kaikora hill, where hois to have a sort of college or seminary for the education of young ecclesias. tics. Villaino's submarine boat for gold, mining is at length about to make a start, as many shares having been subscribed for as will enable one of the arrangements to bo built and fairly experimented on. The trial will be made on the Molyueux river, and the promoters are most sanguine of success' The Pneumatic Company art also about to make essay at Clvde and the idea has been very favorably received by the public in Otago' A telegram from Adelaide, received by the Rangitoto, states fiat Sir James Ferguson will visit England before coming here to enter upon his duties as Governor of New Zealand. The South Australian Parliament is to be immediately prorogued to enable tho Governor to proceed to England at once. The Chief Justice is to bo the Acting-Governor of South Australia pending the arrival of Sir James Ferguson's successor.

The Wellington ' Independent' suggests that an Order of Merit for the Colony should be established to bestow badges for heroic actions. The financial statement delivered id the Auckland Provincial Council total shows the estimated revenue of the Province to be £70,417, and the appropriations, without education, exceed that amount. The Crovermnent intimate that it must provido for Ed&. cation by a compulsory rate, whereat f the people are indignant. '/

At Port Chalmers the Nebraska fired a salute and dressed the ship in honor of Grant's election as President of the United States. The salute was returned by the Naval Brigade firing 19 guns. The Governor has received official instruction of his appointment as Governor of Victoria. He will probably not leave the Colony before March. He will visit Canterbury and Danedin next month.

New Zealand exhibits for the Vienna Exhibition will be received at Vienna till April, 1878.

Tho New Zealand Steam Shipping Company offer to carry exhibits to the Canterbury Exhibition without charge. Amongst the spectators of the Canterbury races there was a large number of sailors and marines from tho Dido, who distinguished themselves not a little in equestranism. Not content with riding singlv, they more than once double-banked their horses, a proceeding so much to tho dislike of one animal that he unsealed his riders almost as fast as they could get up, to the infinite amusement of the general public. In tho latter part of the afternoon two races on horse-back were got up for their special benefit, and this was productive of more fun, making an amusing wind-up to the day's proceedings. The running for tho Hurdle Race at Christchurch, between Bismarck and Medora, has caused a good deal of talk in racing circles. M'Kay, the rider of Medora, it appears, weighed out properly, but after the race he was found to be 31bs too light. It was observed some time before tho race that some friends of Medora were putting their money on Bismarck, and the knowing ones were at a loss to understand how the latter could bo possibly made to win, unless Medora was palpably held back. Even during the race, which to all appearancecs was a gift to Medora from the commencement, the parties referred to kept laying their money on Bismarck. It is just possible that they may have noticed M'Kay dropping his three pounds of lead. Tho ' Wanganui Herald' has the following :—" " The members of the Armed Constabulary have been weighed and found not wanting. Tho average weight of the officers and men now stationed in Wellington, is twelve stone and a quarter of a pound, and their average height five feet uine and three-quarter inches. The Regulation Colonial Prize Firing Regulations for 1873. They arc to bo competed for in Nelsou. There will be four classes of prizes—colonial, general, district, and special. Tho number of representatives from each district will be as follows: Auckland, 5 ; Wairoa and Wainkuku, 2 ; Waikato, 2 ; Thames, 3 ; Tauranga and Opotika, 1; White. Cliff, Plymouth, and Egmont, 2 ; Wanganui and Patea, 2 ; Raugitikia, 2;' Hutt, 2 ; Wellington, 2 ; Wairarapa, 2 ; Napier, Wairoa, and Poverty Bay, 2 ; Nelson and Marlborough, 1 ; Canterbury, 3 ; Otago and Southland, 7 ; Westland, 1; Armed Constabulary, 3. An unusual accident happened a few days since at Queenstown, Otago. A man named Brown, while killing a sheep, put the knife into his mouth. The sheep jumped up and kicked the handle down Brown's throat. The injury is fatal. Tho Otago representation at tho lutcrprovincial Regatta is likely to fall through. A shocking and determined caso of suicido was discovered at Templeton. Canterbury. A man named Joseph Charlesworth had been for some time past living alone in a house on his farm. A lad named Henderson noticing that the windows had been blinded

' or a day or so, called some of the lf yhbors around, and the door was ,rokcu open, when tho unfortunate f3 n was found suspended from the afters by a rope. From the lower pm of the house a sort of ladder grease, almost perpendicular, ! complicates with a sort of loft overhead, nil ho had apparently gone up this idder, fastened the rope on to one of le beams of the roof, taken off his (stand boots, and having tied the >ther end of the rope round his neck, jmped straight down. The fall being try great, death must have been jitantaneous. A document was ;Mid in his waistcoat pocket stating |e reason for committing tho rash it, and also containing his will. While alluding to tho scratching of peeress for the Canterbury Cup, the Otago Daily Times ' says:—" In the tiir rules of the Victorian Racing |nb, wo notice that the committee <ii call upon the person entering a jorse to declare the bona fide owner j name of any person having any sterest in the horse. We commend ferule to the Dunedin Jockey Club, ritli the addition "that any change [ownership after nomination (before jerace for is run), should bo officially Rifled to the secretary." New Zealand messages for England rill now be received at any telegraph lation in the Colony, and be fortarded to Melbourne. The following ire tho charges for transmission:— for 50 words or less via Melbourne, [9 8s Gd ; for 20 words or less via iydney, £9 lis 6d (exclusive of ISfew iealand rates.) Half of above rates ir every 10, or fraction of 10 words ibove 20. Mr A. St G-. White, an actor well bown in Christchurch and elsewhere, to died at Napier, leaving a widow acd several children totally unprovided for. The Bay of Plenty 'Times' is abilant at the turn affairs have taken i the Tauranga district. Public rorks in the district are being rapidly iroceeded with. Sir James Eerguson, Baronet of [ilkerrau, Ayrshire, who at present :overns South Austratlia, and will tacceed Sir George Bowen in the Gotmorship of New Zealand uulike _,ur present Governor, belongs to I:b Conservative school of politicians, lie was born in 1532, and is thus only I arty- years of age. He sat in the I louse of Commons for Ayrshire from 1854 to 1857, and again from 1559 to It) IS6B, when he was appointed Gojmior of South Australia. Sir James ;ekl office under Lord Derby's Go- ! [eminent in 1867-8, fisrt as UnderSecretary for India, and, subsequently, a Under-Secretary for the Home Department, in which he succeeded Ea: 1 Eelmore, when the latter was made Governor of .New South Wales. He iras appointed a Privy Councillor in the same year that he was made Go rernor of South Australia. Little is •aid of Sir James in his present post, 6ut if he achieves a pleasing popularity ike that winch Sir George Bowen has secured for himself here, Sir James Ferguson will have reason to be satisEed with his sojourn in the Colony of .Yew Zealand. The timber trade of the Southland district appears to be assuming large dimensions. Within half-a-dozen miles of Invercargill alouo, it is stated that there are ten steam saw-mills at work.