INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3193, 10 December 1892, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(by telegraph.—press association). WELLINGTON, List Night. Ministers in Cabinet yesterday authorised the immediate application of a sum of £3000 for additional form ition work on the Kamo and Hikurangi railways at Whangarei. and €2000 on bush falling and formation at Eketahuna and the Eketahuna—Woodvill i railways, Thirty additional men from Canterbury are employed on the construction of in the North Island. So great was the amount of debris brought down by the slip on the Rimataka that communication by rail to Masterton cannot be restored till Monday, possibly not till a later date. Albert Thomas, charged with assaulting Mr Kirkbride, has been reminded for a week. The changes respacting the police inspectors will probably be announced this evening. All the Ministers will assemble in Wellington the week after next. On thn recommendation of the Minister for Public Works the Railway Coinmißiioners have agreed to reduce the ratal for the unemployed by one half. Hitherto full rates were charged, but as the Union Company and the Manawatu Railway Company were granting concessions the Commissioners have fallen in with the Minister's views. Mr Seddon returns to Kumara at Christmas and leaves for Australia early in the new year. Mr Ballance is steadily improving. DUNEDIN, Last Night. Mr Cadman, Native Minister, visited Otago Head 9 to-day, where he was hospitably received. After greetings, the question of the Native claims for " tenths " of land comprised in the Otago block and for the Dunedin Boat Reserve in Princestreet or its value, —the claim amounting in all to considerably over £I,ooo,ooo—was opened. The Minister let the meeting clearly understand that he considered the natives had no claim, either in respect of the " tenths "or of the Boat Reservo. He subsequently discussed with them the subject of making provision for landless natives and three pieces of land have been set apart in the hope of meeting the case. One is a block of 40,000 acres below the Wuiau in Southland, another comprises 7000 to 8000 acres of the Tautauka bush at Catlms, and the third is near Lake Wanaka. WOODVILLE, La»t night. A young min named Mclnley was drowned while bathing in the Tirauinea river last night.