LATEST INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1028, 10 December 1872, Page 2

LATEST INTER-PROVINCIAL.

The people in the City of Newcastle's boat might have been brought to Wellington soon after beiDg rescued but for an accident of a trivial kind. The John Ivnox signalled the Electra, bound in. The signal halliards of the Electra were carried away. Delay arose, and the other thought a discourtesy was meant, and having a fair wiud she saded her course.

The Crown Prosecutor has received instructions to proceed criminally against Bain, late master of the City of Newcastle, who went to Melbourne per Rangitoto. The Rangitikei and Mauawatu district is literally a land flowing with milk and honey. Of the latter there is no doubt, as the district has long been famous for the quantity and excellence of the honey it yields. Considerable quantities have been yearly exported, aud Jasb year one person alone sent away no less than two tons of honey. This year, however, the yield is expected to be something unusually great. The bees have been enabled to commence storing honey much earlier this spring, and the quantities of blossom and flowers have been more luxuriant than for several seasons back. So plentiful has honey become, and so easily obtainable, that its general consumption in the households of settlers seriously interferes with the import of sugar into the district.

At the inquest on the body of Diddams, a verdict of suicide when suffering from temporary insanity was returned. It was first stated it was believed that his accounts were wrong. Investigation showed that the accounts were right. Referring to the Scandinavian settlement at Noraewood, in tho Seventy mile Bush, which contains a juvenile population amounting to more than sixty, the ' Hawkes Bay Herald' says : —" We are glad to learn that a subscription list has been opened for the purpose of raising funds for the erection of a school-house at the settlement. About £SO has been collected already. The sum required will be, at the lowest estimate, £2OO. Whether a grant from the Government might be forthcoming if applied for we cannot say ; but certainly the provision of the means of education for the children at all these recently formed settlements is a subject that should commend itself to the consideration of Ministers."

The ' Post' says .-—We are informed that the Government have invited her Majesty to confer upon the the Hon. Mr Vogel tho distinction of knighthood in recognition of his eminent services to New Zealand, and that it is also in contemplation that the hon. gentleman shall proceed to England to act there permanently as General and Financial Agent of the colony, vice Dr Peatherston.

The Green Harp swindle gave rise to many good stories. The following is one told by the Auckland correspondent of the ' Otago Daily Times \- A director was married at Onehunga with great splendour—six greys to the

carriage, and a large procession of friends. As a fee he gave the priest five " Green Harps," and advised him earnestly to huy five more to make the number ten. The priest did so, and has since had to pay a five-shilling call on each of them.

According to the "Wanganui ' Herald,' the Tuhua gold fever is again on the increase. Ruinors are rife at the King's settlement about gold being found at Tuhua, and the natives are very much excited about it. Canterbury cricketers are arranging for an interprovincial match. A committee has been formed and a considerable amount guaranteed. The attempt to form a new morning paper in Dunedin in opposition to the ' Otago Daily Times ' has failed owing to disputes amongst the promoters.

G-allagher,the prisoner flogged in the Dunedin gaol recently, has again been sentenced, this time to fifty lashes, for insubordination. He prefers torture and low diet, rather than work. A new Catholic church is to be erected in Napier, at a cost of .£ISOO. The design is Gothic, the exterior walls beiDg supported by ten buttresses, the angle ones of which are carried up and finished with pinnacles about twelve feet high. According to the ' Press,' the Canterbury Government propose giving practical effect to the suggestion of Mr C. C. Brown, embodied in the rein the report of the Board of Educa- ' tion, that colleges for the imparting of the higher branches of education, should be established in that province. According to the Waikato ' Times,' all the crops in the Hamilton District are looking first-rate.

The tenders invited throughout the colony by the Colonial Architect, for a supply of between 230,000, and 250,000 feet of timber, for the alterations to Government buildings, have considered, and that of the Wellington timber merchants has been accepted.

The new market place being constructed by the Auckland City Council, will cost £2,499. The Chrlstehurch citizens have urged the Government to place on the estimates the sum of £20,000 for the purchase of the cathedral site for the erection of public offices. The Government agreed to the proposal in the hope that the Council would sanction the appropriation. A late ' New Zealand Gazette,' contains a proclamation making Poverty Bay a Customs port, naming the legal landing plate, and making it a warehousing port under the Customs Kegulation Act, IS3B. It also announces Mr P. G. Harris's appointment as Collector of Customs at Poverty Bay, Seven mure J. p.' a h avo been created—one in Auckland, ouo in Marlborough, three in Cauterbnry and two in Otago. An announcement by the hon. John Bathgate in the ' New Zealand Gazette' informs judicial officers aud others that correspondence on subjects connected»with the administration of justices will now be received by the hon. the Minister of Justice, aud should be addressed to him.

A Christchurch paper says that " tho committee of the Canterbury Auxiliary Bible Society have decided to send a supply of Bibles to every hotel and accommodation house throughout the Province, so that a copy of the Holy Scriptures may be placed in each bedroom.