INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1164, 3 April 1874, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

One of tlic Thames journals, and some of those published in the Province of ITawke's Bay. are printed on paper made of New Zealand flax. It is bad in color and brittle (like straw paper), though it takes a fair impression. The Napier Evening Herald regrets that in its dpsiro to foster Colonial it " ever had anything to do" with the attempt to make printing paper of Colonial hemp. The new mission schooner, with auxiliary screw, to take the place of the Day Spring, has been launched at Auckland Lady Martih named the vessel Southern Cross. Bishop Cowie assisted at the ceremony, and a large number of clergy were present. The new railway store at the N. Z. Meat Preserving Co.'s Works, AVoodiands, is capable of holding 1,200 tons of preserved meats in readiness for shipment by home vessels (it the Bluff, as occasion may offer. A timber bridge, six chains in length, and of great strength, (timber 15 x 12), leads "from

the store, which is situated alongside the railway line, to the Company's works, ami convey supplies through the store to the railway line, or delivered for homo shipments on the works. Measures are being taken to more rigidly enforce the observance of the "Public Health Act, 1872." The Act provides a penalty of 40s against parents omitting to get their children vaccinated within six months after birth. • Clause 119, provides that " no person shall be appointed to any office in the public service who has not been vaccinated." As an instance of tho advance in the value of property in Dunedin, tho Daily Times of a recent date says that Mr Couzens has sold the piece of ground, which has a frontage of 2Gft 4in on Jetty street, on which tho Cafe de Paris Hotel,is situated, with the wooden building upon it, for the sum of £2OOO, being £75 12s 7d per foot, or £G 6s per inch. The same property was sold by Government, five years ago, for £25 per foot. The building is to be used as a warehouse.

Mr Blackett, C. E., has furnished a report to the Nelson Provincial Government regarding the Wangatmi river, which he recently surveyed. He points out that the river is gradually undermining the cliff at the mouth of the river, and if this process is not arrested the entJance to the river will be entirely destroyed, as the water will find its way to the sea by a number of small channels instead of by a single navigable one. Mr Blackett recommends an expenditure of £OOOO in forming a stone breastwork to protect the cliff, and a further expenditure of £4OOO in clearing the river channel from snags. The murderer Sullivan went into a respectable tavern in Auckland with his keeper and called for a pint of beer which was served to him. A person in the bar at tho time recognised the murderer, and seizing the pot, wrote upon it these words :—"Sullivan tho murderer, drank out of this pot, February IG, 1874."