INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 262, 2 December 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Friday. A Gizelte notifies that on the second and fourth Thursday in each month meetings of the Waste Laud Board for the Land District of Nelson, shall be held at the Nelson Land Office at 10 a.m. In M 'Bride against Brogden, the Court of Appeal decided this afternoon in favor of defendants with costs. Direct communication with London is reestablished. Christchurch, Friday. Produce quotations f.o.b. at Lyttelton: — Milling wheat unobtainable; flour firm at £16 in sacks, moderate stocks; bran, £5; sharps, £6; cheese, B_d; butter, 10_d to t Id; oats, 2s 6d for feed and 2s 9d for milling; barley is in improved enquiry, good malting, 4s. John Hamilton, on whose premises at Waitoha Flat an illicit still was found, has Ibeen sentenced to twelve months imprisonment with hard labor. Saturday. Mr Eolleston has agreed to hand over the Provincial Council Library to the Canterbury Collegia, subject to its being returned if the proper authorities object to tbe transaction. A committee has been appointed to select a crew to represent Christchurch. at the ..Nelson Regatta. The Board of Governors of the Canterbury College propose to establish a School of Agricultural Chemistry, and an experimental farm of 300 acres. Dunedin, Friday. The first election for the new Harbor Board took place to-day, when Mr J. Mills, ■of the Union Company, was elected as representative of the ship owners.

Saturday. lesterday's races were poorly attended, and there was little excitement, Kubdle Race of 50 sovs : Kildare, lOst _lb:i, 1; Banjo, list 7lbs, 2; Te Kooti, 9st 71-n, 3. Won easily. President's Handicap of 80 sovs: Right Bower, 7st, 1* King Phillip, Bst 61bs, 2; Isaac Walton, 3. - ' Kailway Plate: Dead Heat, 1; Tadmor, Fishhook was scratched for all his engagements to-day. G-kand Stand Handicap of 40 sovs : Kingfisher, Bst, 1; Steamer, 6st 4lbs, 2; Haphazard, 7st Hlbs, 3. Consolation Handicap: Glengary, 7st, 1; Wild Deer, 6st 81bs, 2; Steamer, 6st lOlbs, 3. Hokitika, Saturday. Mr Learmouth quotes Golden Fleece (extended) at 21s; Hopeful, 150s; Just in Time, 13a 6d; Wealth of Nations 110s; Energetic, £10 ss ; Hokitika Gas Company, 12ls 6d. * J Masterton, Friday. Very heavy thunderstorms passed over the valley during the last three days. Heavy hailstones, some measuring one and a half inches, fell yesterday. The lightning struck a flax-bush at Mr R. Walch's place, Opaki, under which six sheep had sought shelter, killing the sheep, also a horse two chains off. Th. flax-bush was torn to shreds. The' Pastoral Society's Show yesterday was a great success. All classes of stock we;re weir presented. Messrs Beetham took the most prizes, and all for fat stock. Auckland, Friday. Sterndale, in a statement to the Evening Star, says that he was in sole charge and ma nagement of Sanwaroff, and wias responsible for the good order of the island; that he wai-ned Fernandez not to land without notice, as he desired; that the present breach of the peji,ce resulted "from Fernandez having quarrelled all round; that Henderson and Fernandez afterwards took forcible possession of the Island, aud beseiged Sterndale ani his wile for sixteen days; that he then went out to get water, and met Fernandez, who made a motion as- if toi raise his revolver, when Sterndale fired a carbine, and Fernandez fell on all fours, scrambled away and then ran. Fernandez applied for a warrant. Captain Fernandez's statement to the Star represents Sterndale sitting in state amongst natives in silver and' the New: Zealand military uniform; he had a small cast iron cannon, which was fired occasionally. Mair strutted about in pheasant feathers and a New Zealand war medal. During the fracas Mair stabbed Sterndale. Sterndale was arrested thiree times at Tahiti and fined 40 dollars by th3 French Government. The captain gives accounts of frequent brawls and affrays. Hendert, agent for Henderson and Macfarlane, proceeded to Auckland, whereupon Sterndale barricaded his house, and circumstances related in yesterday's telegram occurred. The island is only 140 acres in area. To-day the Resident Magistrate refused to issue a warrant on the captain's information on the ground of no jurisdiction. Sterndale now intends laying an information against Captain Fernandez. The body of a man aged 74, missing since last week was found to-day hanging on a tree in the domain, having committed suicide. Mr Buckland reports :— Fat cattle, 27s to 30s per iOOlbs; shorn sheep, 2-_- per lb; lambs, lis to 17s each. Mr Binney reports :— Adelaide flour, £18 per ton, Star £17, supernre £16; sharps, £8 10s; bran, £7; cheese, 8d to 9d; bacon, -8d to lOd; barley, 3s 6d; oatmeal, £12; jams, 7s 9d.