INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 144, 9 June 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

'•-,""■ V \ Wb_linoton, Thursday. •*Mr Tdmpkinsythe* President of the Canterbury Licensed Victuallers' Association, rand appointed delegate to frame tbe hew Licensing Bill, is here; also Harry Seymour, of the. New Zealand Licensed Victuallers' Gazette; to report the proceedings. The other dele - gates are expected shortly to join the conference, which is to meet on Monday next; Friday. Tho Government have decided to discontinue the -industrial branch of. the Life. Insurance Department. Mr O'Shea reports wholesale produce prices.— Flour, Adelaide, _JU 5s to £14 10s; Colonial, £\l 10s to £11 15s ; oats, 9s 2d to 28 6d; maize, 4s 9d to s j; bran, ls 2d to Is 3d; sharp a, Bs, very scarce; potatoes, £3 15» to £1; cheese, 9Jd to 10d; hams, lOJd to lid. 'J ■ , ".p. CHBMTOHOBOHi Friday. . Produce quotations, fob. at Lyttelton:— Milling wheat, 4s to 4b 9d; oats, 2s ld to 2s 2d; Barley, 4s 6d for best malting; .38, 9d to 4s;' for ordinary butter, la -2d; cheese, 9_; potatoes, £3 ssj flour, £11 to £11 15s; bran, 5s 10d; sharps, £6 10s; best samples malting bwley in demand. The Provincial Government haying placed £300 on the Estimates for establish 'ng -a High School for Girls in connection with the Canterbury College, the Board of Governors of the latter pace have decided to undertake the management of it. In consequence of past success, lima D« Murska commences a second series pf concerts to-night. Joseph and Margaret Catchpole, husband and wife, have been committed for trial for wilfully setting fire to an hotel in their occupation. Duneoiw, Thursday. •Mr Bradshaw reports the following sales : Bank of New Zealand, £17 12s to £17 15s ; National Bank, £3 (4s ; Colonial, £1 12s ; Fiji, lis 6d; National Insurance, 28e ; Standard, 12s. Buyers : Bank of New Zealand, £17 128;; National, £3 14b ; Colonial, £l : lis ; National Insurance, 22s 6d ; (Standard, lls6d; Ottgo and Southland Investment, 25s ; Mosgiel, £1 15s. : A publican was sued to-day by a representative of the Goo 1 Templars for Bupplyiag an intoxicated man with liquor. The case was dismissed. ;; „, In a case of vagrancy this morning, at the Police Court, Mr Pyke, the pre.iding magistrate, intimated the intention of the Bench to carry out the Act strictly according to its terms, throwing ths onus of proof on defendant as to how his or her living was obtained. ' A woman whs was so charged, though she produced a' Bank book showing considerable funds, was convicted and sentenced. At a meeting of the Chmnber of Commerce to-day the annual report was read, also a voluminous report of the Committee appointed to report upon the existing bankruptcy law. In their general recommenda- J tions, the Committee recommend . strongly that a special Act be passed, validating all past, proceedings under the Debtors' and Creditors' Act, la7s,in so far as they are rendered doubtful by conflict between the Act and the rules of the Court, or by ambiguities existing. The Committee also recommend the Chamber to pointedly urge upon the Government that evidence of experienced persons should be taken before a Select Committee of Parliament before an arrunded Act is passed, and that such evidence should aho be obtained for the information of tbe Governor in Council before the amendaien'B of rules of Court are passed.