INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 100, 15 April 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Friday. In banco, the case Meyers v. Buchholz cattic on for hearing, being an application to prevent defecdmt prooseding upon a judgment obtained in the Nelson Distrkt Court. As plaintiff was absent in Nelson, both lawyers applied for an adjournment, which was granted. A disturbance took p^ace at Onehunga owing to a party of blue jackets attempting to rescue a de-erter from a constable. The party drew their knives and some struck the constable across the face with a piece of .scantling, breaking the bridge of his noso,and otherwise injuring him. Fiji news to the sth is to band by the .Llewellyn. ii£ts&

A great disturbance is reported at Sauion. On the 13(.h March a meeting of chiefs was to tnko place] at which the King was to submit (,he question whether he should retaiu the throne or retire. Captain Stevens of the Barracouta wet t with a guard of men who flred their arms opposite the house, while two armed boats' crews were sent to the b ick of the premises to prevent a hostile tribe from interfering before the commencement of the proceedings. Tbe officers having told Captnin Stevens that armed natives were thronging the woois and trying to get between his party and the boats, he sent a party of Bue Jackets to recnnnoit p c, and they found a large body of natives, who, when called upon to disarm, replied by rushing info the road and beginning a sharp fire from rifleß. The fight continued for twenty minutes, the Blue Jackets not even having any bayonets fixed. Eleven sailors were wounded and one died. Some Chiefs to whom Cnptain Stevens applied stopped the firing, and forty prisoners were brought in. Captain Stevens obtained three Chiefs as hostages for the lives of Europeans. No further disturbance occurred, but the meeting was not renewed. The Barracouta and Nymph are to rendezvous at Auckland, where their presence is required to form a court martial on certain officers in the Pacific Squadron. The case between Captain Stevens and Mr Gayne, paymaster, will be heard amoug others It is publicly stated in Fiji that Sir Arthur Gordon will soon be removed from the Govprnorship and replaced by Mr Birch, the Colonial Secretary. At Ceylon, the hull of the schooner Dauntless has been s Id for £567. At Levuka, H.M S. Sappho grounded on the outer reef while star ing to relieve the Barracouta at Samoa, fche was floated eff at high water, and is but little damaged. Saturday. The Luna returned last night from. the North and goes on to Tauranga. The Governor leaves for the Thames on Tuesday. The barque Aline from Glasgow had very heavy weather in the Southern Ocean. Iv one gale which lasted Ih^ee days she lost her jibbdom and mizen topmast, and in another off Hokiang* again lost her jibboora and maintopgallantmnst. Almost all her cargo consists of machinery for tee Auckland waterworks. J Patea, Thursday. The 8.9. Egmont, in going out of the river j at ebb tide this, morning, went ashore on the ! boulder bank. ' She knocked a hole in her bottom, and is full of water. She is loaded with wool and grass peed. Jt is likely she will become a total wreck, The cargo is not insured here. DuaEDiN, Thursday. The earnings of the Otago railway for the year ending March 31st, amounted to £105,475.