INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 305, 26 December 1874, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Weixixgtox, Thursday. By a proclamation in the Gazette, January, February, and March, are declared a close season for oysters within certain prescribed limits in tbe province of Auckland. ThebwqueMaay has cleared for Nelson with part of her original cargo. Mr. Leathes, the traveili g colonial in. tpector of the London and Liverpool Insurance Company/had the central fire brigade turned ont last night to show the extent of the water power. All the n>aln9 wtre turned on, and nfnejetg, about 80 feet hi«h, were kept going for aome time. MrLeathe3 snid that it was the greatest power lie had teen ia New Zealand, and presented the Brigade with £10. The Times protests against the action of victoria ia sending Sallivan back here, as beiog most unfair under the circumstances. ArrcBXAJO), Friday. -The Resident Magistrate has disroir sed the charge brought under the Barmaid Clause of the licensing Act, on the ground that the barmaid said that she stayed after 11 p.m. voluntarily, and was not kept up by the landlord, or wag under his control. The magistrate said, after examining the definition of the word "employ," that he was satisfied, from the absurdity of the clause, that the drafter of it never intended to secure a conviction. A number of casffl of resistance to the education rates, to defend which public subscriptions had heen raised, have been settled by payment oat of court, the counsel for the defemlants advising his clients that the only possible way to dispose of the validity of the Act, under which the rate was levied, was to take it to the Appeal Court. ** Ti £,*? dy found at Rangitoto has been Identified as that of the cook of the steamer Lalla Kookh, who fell overboard lately. * • j »„. Gbsthouth, Friday. Arrived.— Albio*, from Nelson. She sailed at nine a.m, for Melbourne. Sailed — Aihambra for Nelson at 10 30 a.m.