INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
Last week a whale was caught in Queen Charlotte Sound. Sixty-four immigrants, pen Sussex, have been forwarded to Blenheim, where their services are in request. The spirit of progress and advancement is said to have penetrated to that quietest of towns in Marlborough, Benwick, and visitors who have not seen it of late will be surprised to notice several new buildings, either completed or in course of erection. The Government Insurance and Annuities Bill consolidates the law on the matter, and provides for a monthly report from the Commissioner, a yearly one from Parliament, and an actuarial report every fifth year. A Bill has been introduced by Mr Cuthbertson, to authorise the registration of births within fourteen years of the event, on payment of a fine of one pound. The registrar is to enter such
birth in a supplementary registor, on being satisfied with the evidence produced. Tho Wellington City Council has resolved that all the streets in the city shall be formed and constructed without delay, and that a preliminary sum of £20,000 be raised by debentures or loan. It is stated to be tho public wish that rates should be increased for the purpose of carrying out further city improvements. The mining reporter of the Thames Star owns that he was nicely "sold" the other day. Coming down one of the creeks from a long tramp, with very few notes, he saw an engine driver of a battery which has long been idle, gathering some kindling wood, and the reporter thought he had struck a patch. He accosted the engine driver, when the following colloquy occurred : Reporter: " You are going to get up steam, I see ?" Engine driver: " Faith and lam that." Reporter: (pulling out note book J " to crush for the tributers ?" Engine driver : " No." Reporter: " Stuff coming down the tramway ?" Engine driver: " The devil an ounce." Reporter: (looking serious) " Then why get up steam ?" Engine driver: " Because its sundown —my tea time, and sure I must get up steam, or thetay'llbe spiled. Will you stay and have a pannikin ?" Reporter travels, muttering something unlike thanks for the proffered hospitality: Since his arrival in Wellington Mr Holloway, the representative of the English Agricultural Laborers' Union, has been taking advantage of the presence, at the meeting of Parliament, of landowners, legislators, and capitalists from all parts of the country, to make himself acquainted with the material object of his mission. He will, it is believed, carry with him a much higher opinion of the country, its institutions and Government, as well as its land laws, than he formed on his first arrival in the Province of Otago.
The vexatious action of the Libel Law in New Zealand has lately been shown in a case brought against the proprietor of the Bruce Herald. Some practical joker sent a birth notice, and named as the mother a young unmarried woman. The notice appeared, and the father of the damsel sought legal redress, and obtained £SO damages, although the proprietor of the paper had made very ample apology. His mistake was in taking the notice unverified by substantial authority. The D. S. Cross is responsible for the following . —" Another well known face has passed away from among us, and the Auckland bar has sustained a serious loss. Mr Andrew Beveridge, who was injured some time ago in a railway accident which happened between Onehunga and Auckland late at night, never recovered the injuries he sustained then, and has since lingered on till early yesterday morning, when he died. The legal profession will lose a clever barrister, and his personal acquaintances a valued friend." The Thames Advertiser says that in a letter received after this was published the following paragraph appears : —" Cross has Beveridge dead, but he is getting better." A telegram received last night by the W.M. of Sir Walter Scott Lodge of Freemasons, states that the report is wrong, and that Mr Beveridge is a great deal better.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1200, 7 August 1874, Page 4
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