INTERPROVINCIAL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 890, 2 May 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.] Two Men Killed at Kumara. Auckland, May 1. Inspector Broham handed over the charge of the police to-day to Inspector Thomson. Mr Broham has been presented with a handsomely illuminated address. AVanganui, Alay 1. The trial of the libel action —Ballance of the Herald v Carson of the Chronicle. — lasted all day. The jury ret urned a verdict for the plaintiff; damages £ls. Fielding, Alay 1. The Hon. AV. Fox, when lecturing here on Monday night, said the permissive principle of his Licensing Bill had been retained in the New Zealand statute hook, and expressed tbe opinion that. Parliament would next session pass an effective Permissive Bill. Nelson, Alay 1. Mr Alabin reports tbe sale of the corner of Trafalgar and Bridge streets, where the old AVakatu Hotel stands, to the Bank of New South Wales for £2250. Kumara, Alay 1. A fatal mining accident occurred in Power’s claim, Larrikin’s Terrace, to-day, to two men, by a fall of earth. One man was dug out dead. The other lias uot yet been found, but there are no hopes of his being alive. In another claim on the same lead Alexander McLeod had his'leg broken by a fall of stones a ton in weight. Dunedin, May 1. During the month of April 135 births, 35 deaths, and 39 marriages were registered in Dunedin. There are nine candidates for matriculation at the Otago University this year, and one for preliminary examination in medicine. The Hon. George Ale Lean returns to Dunedin this evening. He will be waited upon by a deputation, urging on the Government the necessity for completing the main lines of railway.