INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 167, 6 July 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Grahamstowx, Wednesday. The Borough Council election took place to-day for one Councillor. Messrs Kilgour and C. Curtis (Paciflc Hotel) were the candidates. There was great excitement. The Thames Advertiser came out in two edition* this morning. First one proprietor and editor had a paragraph favoring Dr. Kilgour'a candidature. Some of Curtis's friends watched him go from the offije and then went and woke the co-partner and coeditor, who came down, etoppe 1 the machine, removed the paragraph favorable to Kilgour, and inserteJ one in Curtis's interest. This new phase of journalism caused considerable comment. Duhedik, Wednesday. Arthur R. Moule, charged with forging a deed in connection with some Victorian pro • perty, and with aiding and abetting a lad eleven years of age in the forgery, was sentenced to two jeir a imprisonmont. Hugh M'Neil, A Morris, and Alex. Rennis, Are candidates for the office of 1 ircctor of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand. A proposition in the City Council >o alter female franchise in the Municipal Bill, so that only women aged thirty and possessing rateable property of £50 aunuallv could vote, wftß lost on the casting-vote of ihe Mayor, The charge against (Joleman, the bnokm iker, for vagrancy, was dismissed, though the Bench thought there was strong presumptive evidence that he did not earn his livehood honestly. Thiuidiy. A resolution condemnatory of Mr. Stout's Licensing Bill, and of his conduct in introducing it unasked and unconsulted, was passed at a meeting of Licensed Victuallers last night. The Guardian concurs in Mr. M' Lean's appointment as Commissioner of Customs. The Dunedin Peniusa'.s and Ocein Beach railway has been commenced. Professor M'Gregor has been appointed Medical Officer to the Lunatic Asylum. Auckland, Thuradav. Mr W. C. Wilson, proprietor of the New Zealand Herald, died lust niyht, aged 66.