INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1063, 15 April 1873, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The Thames Advertiser says that Mr Lemon should bear the blame of the present condition of the telegraphic department, and protests against him making scapegoats of others. A correspondent writes from Collingwood, Nelson, to the Australasian, anent building stone. He says £- "In the range of hills just opposite where I write this, and about three miles distant, there is a formation of superior marble, inexhaustible in quantity. The whole of it may be said to be within a mile and a half of a place of shipment; but great quantities could be at once tumbled into lighters in sheltered water and taken away. That means that the carriage oyer sea would be the chief item of expense. Wouldn't it be worth a trifle extra to have your public buildings made of such materials instead of the present sham of stucco ?"

A correspondent to one of the Otago papers writes that recently a Cromwell landlady, of some celebrity, and her two girls agreed to differ one day lately, when the latter contrived to have the stove heated up to high pressure pitch, and on it they set the poor lady, threatening in earnest to roast her alive. She managed, however, to escape, but with what amount of injury I have not heard, as it has not yet transpired so far whether either or both doctors the town supplies were called in attendance, but something was said about requiring a cushioned chair. The ringleader was fined £2, or one month imprisonment; and the accomplice was ordered to leave the town in half an hour, or she would be taken in charge, which she accordingly did, returning again next morning. The Independent states that Dr Featherston has given Messrs Farnell, Birch, and Seaton, £7OO a year each as Immigration Agents, and protests against such expenditure as contrary to the understanding on which they went home, and as being unauthorised by the Government, and commenting thereon, says the payment is disgraceful extravagance. German Immigration has broken down, Scandinavian has ceased, and Irish is inconsiderable. If the Government allow such expenses they will be called to account by the Legislature. A child died recently at Auckland under rather curious circumstances. It appears that until a short time before his death he was playing about as usual. He was taken suddenly ill and died in a few minutes. His parents could assign no reason for his sudden death, and called in a medic^!, 1 / man who made a post mortem examination and found that death had resulted from suffocation, caused by a worm, which had crawled from the child's stomach to his windpipe, where it stuck fast.

The Steeplechase Olub races at Wanganui will probably take place on, the 29th April. The stakes for the big race will be about Ll5O. It is expected that a number of horses will come from others parts of the colony. A man named M'Kennel, lately a cook at the Steam Packet Hotel, Wanganui, has been declared the heir to a large amount of money in England.

The second telegraph wire from Auckland to "Wellington is expected to be completed in three and a half months. New offices in Auckland are to be procured, as the present are unhealthy. Two boys have been discharged, and four new ones appointed. A head messenger will be appointed, and other changes will shortly be made. A large proportion of the complaints have arisen through the boys being more unruly there than in the other parts of the colony. The brig Gazelle, on her last passage frpm Newcastle to Wellington, ran short of water, but Captain Brent, the master of the vessel, devised a very simple plan for getting rid of the difficulty. He procured an oil drum, and drilled a hole* high up in the side, and Boldered a piece of lead pipe about five feet long into it. He then led this pipe into another drum, which he placed in a tub of cold water, when the first drum was filled with salt water and put on the fire. The steam rushed

through the pipe aud Was immediately turned into pure, fresh water by the sudden change of temperature. By this simple means be was enabled to distil about seven gallons in twentyfour hours, getting out of five gallons of salt water four gallons of fresh. A correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald pokes fttn at the queer jumble of news transmitted by the Java oable. In his letter he says:—"To-day we have a Bussian army of half a million marching straight against our inland Indian frontiers, and to-morrow that army is reduced to 7000, and going in a totally opposite direction. The Carlists were yesterday heading for Bilboa this morning they are seeking hidingplaces across the Pyrenees, and tonight they will be "dead on" for Bilboa; again. Last week, a Muscovite ambassador is seen dancing smiling attendance at the English Court, plead, ing with the Duke of Edinburgh in favor of a dark-eyed Bussian Princess ; and we find the Czar is conspiring with Bismarck and the Shah of Persia to blot us out of the map, and sweep us from off the sea altogether. Where, I ask, is that Bussian Princess now ? where that smiling and dancing Muscovite P Echo -alone answers, inhere-? But still the mendacious current jabhers on :—" The Bilboaists are advancing on Carl. Money tight. Tallow ■steady, 54. Tin 46. Wallsend «oal advancing. Prince Napoleon waits the 'course of events. The Valley of Wborassan, Wahool, Medjikame/leke ■ceded merely by the Shah of Persia. Mutton v(tallow) active. Gladstone tfumma'tes a Catholic Dissenting College. Bush of German Jesuits toi England. Beef advancing, 6d; coals ■receding. iPrince Napoleon watching •course of <events. Tin, 44. Carlists bands arounds Kilboa. N.Z. sixes, 118 Money scarce. Iron heavy. Cork (light. The Committee Of Thirty demand"—Stop there, my daughter ; that's enough. ; Go to -bed, my dear ; .you're tired, 1 know.