INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 57, 7 March 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunedin, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Licensing Bench today, the Court decided that thev would attach every importance to memorials in favor of applicants. It transpired that there were at present 103 hotels in Dunedin. Wellington, Tuesday. An enquiry was .held this afternoon into the loss of the two lives caused by the collision of the Taupo with the hulk Eli Whitney. The evidence of the captain, chief mate, and carpenter, and also of the diver who examined the hulk, was taken, but no new light was thrown on the accident beyond that already telegraphed. The jury returned a verdict that Amy Davey and child came by their deaths by drowning through the sinking of.the hulk, iu consequence of a collision with the Taupo, but that no blame is attached to the captain aud officers ot* the Taupo.- They attached a rider to the .effect • that the hulk was moored in an unsafe position for vessels leaving the wharf, and that all such vessels should carry a bright light. I from sunset to sunrise. j The New Zealand Loan Agency reports of the wool market up to date (not given) that 60,000 bales had been sold. Superior greasy and combing and washed are firmer. Medium and inferior greasy easier. Competition on the French account is moderate, and the i Belgian and German account dull. Seedy i and burry wools are neglected. The sales close on March 28th. The tallow market is flat. The sales of Australian comprised I .1800 casks; beef, 40s; mutton, 425. Wheat I market quiet, Adelaide worth 56s and New | Zealand 54s per 4961b5. The leather market is easier, aud trade demand quiet; best hides I Is per lb. j Wednesday. I Edward Pearce, M.H.R., will place his resignation in the hauds of the. Speaker this morning. The only candidates for the vacant seat as yet or likely to be arc Mr Hutcheson (Mayor), and Mr Travers. A writ, claiming damages £4(10, has been served upon Mr Terrier, editor of the Times, as being the presumed author of a paragraph which appeared in the Times, which Mr Travers alleges he considers applied to him. i Mr Perrier has instructed his solicitor. The prospectus of the Te Aro Theatre Company ispublished. The capital is £10,000 iu 1000 shares. Inveroargill, Tuesday. ! An important decision with regard to the liability of shipowners was given by the Resident Magistrate to-day as follows*.—"lt appears from the evidence that on the Pith June last a truss of goods was shipped by Ross and Glendiuing at Dunedin, on board the steamer Coomerang, to be forwarded to J Invercargill, consigned to plaintiffs. The* Coomerang arrived at the Bluff next day. Plaintiff not receiving the goods, and finding they were lost or missing, made a claim on I defendants on the 20th August for their i value, which was resisted, and hence the ' present action. I think defendants were bound, under their contract as expressed in the receipt produced at the hearing, to forward the goods right through from Dunedin to Invercargill, and are responsible for the safe transit, whether by rail or boat all the way through. The goods are lost, but when or how there is no evidence to tell us. I think the loss is prima facie evidence of negligence and that defendants are liable. I am further of opinion that a receipt or shipping note does not form a sufficient special contract to limit the liability of the defendants, inasmuch as it does not appear to be signed either by the plaintiff or the party shipping the goods. Judgment for plaintiff with costs against the defendants, Roughton and Co., owners of the Coomerang." CußiSTCuvncn, Tuesday. At the meeting of the Licensing Commissioners to-day it was decided on the question of extra licenses for public house bars, where more than one exists in the same house, that all publicans should obtain licenses for every bar more than one on their premises. One man under this rule will have to pay for three extra bars. Mrs Scott-Siddons is having a successful ruu at the Theatre Royal. Nearly all the American white fish belonging to the Government have been lost from the hatching boxes in the Acclimatisation Gardens. The Society has sent for a quantity of prairie hens. Wcdnesdav. At a meeting of the Board of Health held yesterday evening, stringent measures were taken for the prevention of keeping of pigs in the suburbs within one and a half chains of any house. Pigs arc not allowed to be kept in the city at all. The Chairman of the Board said that seven new cases of typhoid fever, six of scarlet fever, and two of scarlatina had been reported withiu the past fortnight. Auckland, Tuesday. During the month of February 17 deaths were registered, as against 29 for the corresponding month of 1876. The volunteer representatives will bo publicly received on their arrival. M'Lean, the ' carbine champion, is to be borne iu triumph on a gun carriage. The Government have decided only to extend the- railway to Awamutu for the present. Tenders are to be invited immediately for the extension of the line f romNgaruawhia. The new fore-aud-aft schooner Mazeppa, 110 tons, was launched to-day. Onehunga, Tuesday. Sailed—Wellington, for New Plymouth, at I*3o p.m. Passengers for Nelson —Mrs Finlay, Messrs Hounsell, Heale, Careltou, Scott, Buddie, M'Rae,*Day, and Nailer. Napier, Wednesday. Considerable sales of station properties have been made here lately. Mr M'Hardy's Pakawhau estate, including homestead aud 856 acres, sold for £15,970, and tho Northern lot of 613 acres for £6700—total £22,170, being an average of £15 Ids per acre, lie aiso sold 400 acres of Mr James Todd's Homewood land at £7 per acre; Mr Balfour's Mohaka run of 376 acres freehold and 9740 acres leasehold, with 8«»0 sheep for £1750 to Mr W. Smith; and Mr Jojin M'Kinnon's Arawapawanui leasehold on the coast, eon r sistiug of suo acres together with 2000 mixed sheep, for £2501.