INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 80, 21 March 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

•■■■•' ■" Auckland. Mondfiy. Mr. Saunters .reports :— Buyers, Bank of New Zealand, 852s ; National Ins irance, '24h; Standard, lis 3d; Be»ch, 70s ; Shipping, 755; Col6ni'al,"3oß ; New Zealand Insurance, 76e; JSatwiia! Bank, 755; South British 56s ,is ,' ,-. ' Tuesday. Witliam He'jry Campbell, an old thief and loafi^/nas'.been sentenced to one year's iniprißon\i&tif on'i&rh of two charges of extorting f %ibne£ o! by lollowing cpuples in the Domain, professing himself a ftetettive, and malc&'g them pivo him money. to prevent beiiig sunimonfd for indecent conduct. He has lo'airied fori this practice ftyßtemafcioally. Tjie' City' Council has carriei a new bye-law relating [to the smoke nuisnnce, compelling manufacturers to raiße tluir ehimnevs, with an additional clause restricting interference nnle^-'flfiy residents, ne<ir sign tiie requisition. •' K!i ';'- Welling > ojsr, Monday. Captain Evans has gben up command of thef Manawatu, and taken that of the Ladybird: ' Captain Griffiths being senior officer, had"; ibe option' of taking the Ladybird, but ipreferred'stiiking to the Jinnsitira, Mr Harvey', iWte c.bie-f officer of the Manawatu, takes couiniaa.d of that yes el. *'f s Tattra>o\, Monday. Alf'charge •»£ bribery and corruption in cocnection with t-ae East Coast election came on for hearing to-day On the first indictment M«jbr' Pitt was committed to 6tind his trial', ttie second indictment is ttill before the Court', ..^ ome dissatisfaction was .stpressed against, the committal, on the ground tbattjjie evidence in the fiUst indictment was not ' sufficiently (strong. M«jor Bpbertt, Act iug ItM, sat alore on the Bench. Mr Itees appeared for the prosecution, and Mr liet&eth for t)ie defence Thet.e wai only one witn.e.u called in the first indictment, and he openly admitted a personal bias, and motives of revenge agoinstKead. Be is a Pakeha M'lori named Fairiux Johnston. Tuesday.^?'! „Mojbr p[?ltt is committed for trial on bo fo <dhar'k , Ri''fof,' bribery and corruption. The eecoad icbai-ga was supported by native festl--omonyoalv" -*--* a * i * wa3 allowed, defendant' hr 4S4oo ;; im«i jt\vb suretits in £200 each. .Vtfrjv..; ,• '•■' . Dunedin, Tuesday. Gr^f ; iritcre«6 •;« manifested in the coming TMe_*«fc_r i rtAtbft'At'e beginning to arrive in numbers Betting is Kjaiuly confined to the Dun.din CuW arid* the Rowing are the approximate, dika -.— 5 <o I mint Fish-hook, ■6 to 1 against Tattler, 7 to J ftgwast Koran,

10 to 1 against Guy Fawlc?s. Tadmor, King -Phillip, and Daniel O'Rorke; mo to 8 against Rory O'More- Bight Bower, PungHwerewere, nni Terop'cton. so to 1 againßt Gamecock. Prices vary constantly. ' fBLTTFF, Tuesday. The s.s. Otago arrived nt 7 o'olosk this morning. She left Melbourne at 2*30 p.m. on tho 15th, and cleared Port Phillip Heads at 6"10 p m.; passed the Sisters at 5 80 p.m. on the lfith. Experienced strong easterly winds for th? first two days, an<l:th?n strong southwest windß and thick weather until arrival ofl' the Bluff at 10 p.m. on the 20th. She was hove-to in the Straits all night, in consequence of tho heavy south-west gale. She brings 40 saloon and 34 steerage passengers and 490 to as of cargo f r all portß. She sails for Danedin at _ p.m.