INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1174, 8 May 1874, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

A heavy gale took place at Oaumru on Sunday. The Ocean Wave, coal laden, lies a total wreck on the beach; The Emulous, "was ladcu with grain and Hour. The Ocean Wave is insured in the South British for £I2OO, and a part of the cargo of the Emulous is insured for £7OO in the New Zealand.

The Duucdin Provincial Executive in resigning, assigned, as cause, proa-

sure of private business. It is expected that there will be a coalition. It is stated that thirty-threo of the Asia's females were taken out of the Queenstown Reformatory. The acceptances for the Auckland Autumn Handicap arc Calumny, Parawhenua, Batter, Golden Crown, and Discord. For the Handicap Steeplechase —Eustic, Sultan, and Mount Castella. Patrick Long, for the murder at Green Island, was convicted of manslaughter, and is remanded for sentence.

The Superintendent of Taranaki has issued land remission certificates to the value of £IOO,OOO to volunteers entitled to scrip. The AVest Coast Times says :—" The portions of the wreck brought up by Captain Turnbull, by the steamer Waipara, on her last southern trip, are now lying on the wharf, and have been exciting some curiosity, owing to their peculiar construction and appearance. The pieces were cut out by Mr Arthur under Mr Muller's directions, at the Tauperikata river, and they evidently have, at one time, formed a portion of the broad side of a large ship. The entire piece was originally discovered about eight years ago by Mr Muller when in that part of the country making an early survey. The piece then lay, as a portion of it still does, about a hundred yards above high water mark, on the north-east bank of the aforesaid river, and being some distance in the bush, it is supposed that it must have been wrecked there man;/ years previous to its discovery, and before the bush extended as far as it now does to the westward. The recent discovery of coal in large quantities near Tokomairiro, in Otago, lias already induced an influential deputation to wait on the Superintendent, bringing under his notice the necessity of connecting the coalfields with the Southern Trunk Line by a light railway. Eeference was made to Captain Hutton's report on the field ; and to that gentleman's opinion, that with such a line as the one indicated by the deputation, coal could be supplied in Dunedin at a much cheaper rate than from any other coalfield in the district. His Honor replied that the Government would take steps to obtain the necessary data, which would belaid before the Provincial Council, so that that body might take action if it thought fit.