INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1058, 28 March 1873, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

By the last wail, a despatch Wad received from Dr Featherston* stating that a central emigration agency for" Ireland had heen opened in Dublin* and placed under the charge of a Mr" Mason. The agency an Belfast ia still kept open, under the management of Mr Israeli

The Government have received advices from the Agent-General that arrangements have been made for the despatch of the following ships from London :—Parsee, for Auckland, with eighty emigrants, to sail on January Bth ; Edwin Fox, for Canterbury, with two hundred emigrants, and two hundred and fifty for Otago. (The lattei? have been shipped in the Edwin Pox because the Oberon proved unsuitable) Wild Duck, for Nelson and Wellington, with one hundred and fifty emigrants. The whole are nominated passengers. During the quarter ending December, the Agent-General despatched for New Zealand nine ships, with 1567 emigrants —1460 British and 107 foreign.

The Provincial Government or Canterbury seems, to use a digger's phrase, to be " making its pile." Eecently it invited tenders from the Banks at Christchurch, for the privilege of keeping its account, and the tender of the Bank of New Zealand was accepted. Consequently a few days ago the provincial account was removed thither from Bank of Australasia. The account, says the Lyttelton Times, amounted in round numbers to £225,000.

The Lyttelton Times reports that Sir J. Cracroft Wilson, member for Heathcote, has met with another severe accident by a fall from horseback. It seems that when rounding up some cattle, a cow with her calf made a rush towards Sir Cracroft. How it all happened, no one can say, but presently all four went Tiors de combat. Sir Cracroft was removed to his home, when it was found that he had sustained a fracture of one rib and shoulder blade.

The Wanganui Herald hears that a protest is likely to .be entered against a late appointment to a commission in the "V olunteer Force. The gentleman who has the honor of holding the commission has been in her Majesty's goalj where he spent a month in the respectable pursuit of what is known as hard labor.

A Barberbus idea, and yet somewhat ■colloquy took piStte 'in an establishtoent within iOO miles of Blenheim. Professdr (to customer 'Undergoing •operation)':-—" No offence.'Bip, I hope, but has it ever struck yon that a bald head is like the better world?" 'Customer '(jmarply) "No?" fPrdfessor (blandly") " Well Sir, its a bright and uhiny place, you see sir, where'there's no parting." Customer smiles Ipain'fully: A edtitempdrary Who evidently dotes 'not appreciate the mutual advantages of advertising writes :—We have often addled our "brains, and ourselves generally, pondering on the pitiable 'fate 'of drapers, (How have the ttrifortu'nates offended'high heaven so awfully, that they are everlastingly for all time •compelled to 'catty on business at an alarming sacrifice? Why must their ■heartrending howl be-^—"Slaughtered!*' [ " Sweeping 'reductions! !! " "Sural ruin Iruin !" "Unheard of reductions!" "150 'per cent, below 'fcoat ■price! ,v "■Awful collapse ! ddWn again !" Why does 'nearly every paper 'in the 'Colony contain these harrowing an'noun'cements? We have frequently •observed the faces of men that We I positively know are guilty of beig drapers, •and we'never yet traced the r faintest reflex of all the ruin, shame, and agony they announce so persistently andipro■fus9ty. Why don't the beggaVs 'ruined' out of hand and drop it ? The'list'of the 'Civil Service staff •of employees'in the New Zealand Go;verntnerit'bn'the'lst of July 1872, has 'been'fbrWarded 'by the Governmeut 'Printer-at Wellington. We find, says Hue N?Z. Ilerald, on'making a careful •count, that there are one thousand 'eight hundred and eighty five em'ployees'ln 'the 'Colonial Government, or asnear as may be, one to every one 'hundred and thirtyitwo of the whole ofthe'inhabitants of the Calony. It is to be understood that heads of departments'and'many other officials are not i 'included in this roll. The number of ' 'officials drawing their from the v Colotiial Treasury 'chest is two thousand. The tailings Washed down from the Blue Spur have raised the bed 'of 'Gabriel's 'Gully, at the place where the 'old Blue Spur township stood, 100 feet above its original level.

[For 'remainder of news 'see teh page.']