INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 168, 9 July 1875, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Atckl&nd, Friday. Arrived— Taranaki. from South. The Mikado, with the outward mail, was detained t-ll this afternoon awaiting the Southern mails. CnmsTcnuccH, Thursday. In,the Supreme Court, this morning, Frederick Pavitc, /ate Church steward and property trustee, charged with the embezzlement of church funds, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. James, late Treasurer of the Odd-Fellows' Lodge, clurgel with larceny as a h«iee of Lodge funds was acquitted. Judge Williams said the iudictmeut could not be sustained as no instruction*, lind been given to prisoner to pay the particular amount mentioned in the indictment into ths B»nk. He sai'^'e'CPOwu Pro ecutor was nut to blame for ltyf acq-iiits! ot prisoner, as in the present stateof the law the Treasurer of a Fr^ndily Society 'could rob such Socie io« without reudering\himself Ji*»bie to itnpl«oomtnt. Mr Evans Brown, M.H R for Ashley, met the e'ectn** list night, and delivered a speech in favor ofthe ahoi ttion of provinces. A vote of confiJeace in him was pissed. At a me *ting nf .he Board of Governors of Canterbury College last night, a long discussion took piace on the chnrgea ol a local architect named Armstrong, for plans and specifications of the new Public Library Buildings. It appears that Armstrong was iaetructed to prepare tbe plans, to cost, at most, £6,000, but the l.test tender was £10,920, and the Boatd wan unable to go on wi'h the building. Armstrong then sent in h bdl f >r 2) p*jr cent, on the lowest tende**, assorting that it was in accordance with the *c:de of charges adopted by the Cftnternur-,* As oeiation of Architects. It was decioed to upc if this wai correct. AU the members of the Bo*rd spoke strongly against the charge, ani a general feeling was expressed in favor of resisting it by law. W'Kt lington, Thursday. Mr Morris who was a p.issenger by the Taranaki last proceed, home, via 'Frisco, to open and tuke the management of the Colonial Hank in London. In the eas. of Herbert v. the Waste Lands Bb*rd, an appeal, au interim injunction was granted by the Judge in Clumbers on Monday last, restramg tl*e board from dealing with lan is in Harriott Hundreds. Mr Mactssey moved for a rule nisi. The object** of the rule was to cdi upon Mr Donald "Held, Wr Horace H<uting, and Mr Henry Clark, Members of the Waste Lands Boird. to show cause why they should not be attached and commuted to the public gao of Dunedin, for a breach oi the afortenll interim injunction. The rule was granted and made returnable on Welnesday next. The present annual income of the City Council is £1 -.3,692, and their liabilities are £109.188, including £2,458 due to the Bank ot New Zealand. At the City Council meetiug last niglit Mr Ritchie, as attorney for Mr Hankey . wrote, offering to sell the gas works and | .ant to the city for £• 0,000, to be taken in Corpo r ation indentures, bearing interest at 6 per cent. at par, delivered in Stptember. A special meeting of the Council will be held on Friday to con. i Jer the matter. Bates was a great success ac Hamlet last night Hokitika, Friday. At the sa'e yards, Arahu r a, beef averaged 4?s 6d per 10J lbs. No sheep are in the jnarkct.