INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 166, 5 July 1876, Page 2

I NTER PROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Weines3ay. Cne pont in the p >!icy of the Government is unlerstood to be, that where interest and working exrensea on any railway works are not c vered by rect ipts from same, tl c defl :it will be mide good from the Land .fund of the Prorinci il district in which such deficit miy occur ; an i that the Land Fund of one Provincial ainrict will in no case be applied to the leiief of any other district. Christchurch, Tuesday. The young Baluicn were couned today; total number 175 The ' i y Council last night carried a resolution favorable to the construct on of street tramways in ihe city by a public company. A m.in ramed Arthur Holland was committed for trial for m*n&laus;hter to d*y. He Wf»s returning from a shooting expedition when he met a gil stopping at his father's house. He called cut that he woud ehoot her and soon after the eun w< nfc off, the contents lodging in the girl's head. Rulland siid the gun went <ft accidentally, while carrjl ig it at trail, but the girt before death told her sisur he prcs nted it at her. At the supremo Court, Alfred Bishop was charge 1 with ma!i,:iousiy wounding a fhe^p. He wkß killing <,he p. when one of them beca:ne unmanage *b!e, ami he delib r te!y cut off its rose, cut both its eres out, ami turned it b ick into the pen, and killed nine cthe-s before p tting it out of Its misery, Ju*'ge Jotiiuton expre-sed B'rorg abhorrence at the crime, but only Bent?n'.:cd the prisoner to three months' impmoutscnt. Wedue:3'.liiy. The Supreme Cieit was occupied for Iv-e'.ve houra yeslerdav with tie trial of Wil nm Towneud ior manslaughter in a miiwifery case. A vir iet of Guilty was returned, aid the prisoner was sentenced to mx maniha' in)pridjn;iierit without hard labor. DrjNEDicr, Tuesday. In reply to a ]e!t -r from Mr Bra)sh-w corr.p'aiiitng of the unsatisfactory manner in ■which coroner's duties are c Tried out in th's city, tlie MinMer of .lustiue has repliei, puntiog our, that an amended- Coron3rs Act has been promised. T c surject of establishing a paid fire brigale is under the consideration of the City Council. Robert Pesttie, M.A, has been arpointed head master of the girls' high school, in place of Mr Pope res : gned. The Variety Troupe opened last night The licensed victuallers are advertising a caution against signing a memorial now in circulatioa in favour of Stout's Licensing Bill. New Plymouth, Wedneedav. The Herald publishes another of Grant's letters, in which he says that the Government and its agmts are trying to d image his fair fame and credit. Lie Bays thit Dunedin is literally swarming win f»l!ea women, of whom there are not less than 50J.