INTERPROVINCIAL ITEMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 4 March 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL ITEMS.

♦ [Exchange.] It is said that the expenditure of tl» Native Office during Mr Bryce's roign has been reduced from £80,000 per an* nam to £11,600. This J* a clearing savins of £60,000. i| His Excellency is expected to leave on 'his tear through the South Island about the middle of next week. The West Coast Times says :— Early in January last we noticed that a patent had been taken out by Mr Ashcrofl. of Wellington, for a now qoartz crashing machine. We then gave full particulars regarding the invention, so far as they have been conveyed to us. We have tbit week been informed by Mr Ellaby, agent for Mr Ashcroft, that in about a week's time the patentee expects to have a medium sized machine in working order in Wellington. He further adds that 'it is the opinion of practical engineer* and miners that have seen the mode!, that this invention will effect a perfect revolution on the old system, but, of course, it will be impossible to make the public believe this until satisfactorily proved by the trial of the machine.' The Wellington Evening Post, which it is well known is in the confidence of tha Government, contained the following in a recent night's issue, which may be re* garJed as a semiofficial utterance :— •• That we shall have to raise at least one more Colonial loan, or at any rate to mako the at ternp 1 :, appears certain. The public mind in England is therefore being carefully educated in advance, with a view to the application which is expected and probably, with accuracy, to be made towards the end of 1932." It is further rumored that the contemplated new loan will be three millions, and that in hi* next Financial Statement Major Atkinson will indicate the necessity for again going upon the London market to this extent, with a view to making it a test question at the ensuing general ebctioa. A writer in the Waikato Mail, in a description of the Tokoroa Plain, which is to come before the Linds Court on the 15:h says : — " Of one thing we at best are well assured, there are but few acres of the whole of its large area wliich will be hereafter found are unproductive, or un-» able to carry grass and clover. It is * country over which good roads lean bemost easily and cheaply constructed. Oa the plains and in the valleys the wild horse has his homo and pasture. Wild horses have been so frequently described that it will suffice for us to say the borse of Tokoroa is, as seen through the grasi a sturdy looking, short*legged animal, not by any particuliarly noticed a fiuo black stallian, who was in compa iv with, a herd of nine others. On some few occasions, we believe, these horses have been joined by horses the property o£ travellers crossing tho plains. The Natives say that there must be fully 2000 of these lict3<?s on Tokoroa.