INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2974, 6 August 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(lIY TELEOISAI'II—PRESS ASSOCIATION")

WELLINGTON, Last Night. At a meeting of those who have returned from the Government relief works at Makari. near P,ihiEit.ua, complaints wore made that the Government engiueer had measured the work incorrectly, and suggesting that a private surveyor lie sent to iivisure the work sine..' its incipiency. A deputation subsequently waited upon the Minister for Lands, and represented tho matter to hnn. The Minister said, so far as he had been a'ole to ascertain, the men had been fully paid for all the work they had done. He promised, however, that he would go into the matter fuither. and if he found the workmen had hen unfairly treated he would see that the matter was set right. Messrs Cli.it-li.-ld and J-icobson, the architects appointed to report on the sanitary condition of the Parliament buildings, report a total ab wince of ventilation and the general condition entirely hail. The principal fault, however, could he rectified iu four days. NIOLSON, List Night. A serious fire occurred l.wl about 12 o'clock in the family residence known as St. Katlierinc, which was burnt to the ground. The house contained ten rooms, and was formerly occupied by Mr Justice Richmond. Mr and Mrs IJ.ikor, who were living in the house, had a narrow escape from being burnt when leaving the building with nothing on except their night dresses. The building was insured in the Standard Ollice for £500, but tho furniture was not insured. HOKITIKA, Last Night. Panic] I and party, who are prospecting on the south side of the river, struck wash gold to day in the roof of the tunnel, giving half a pennyweight to the dish. The lead is about IS inches thick, and is proved to run for two hundred feet. Tilo discovery is regarded as important.