INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 66, 17 March 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Christchurch, Saturday. Jacpbsori, formerly teller at the Colonial Bank, was^committed for trial this morning on a charge of embezzling £37 of the bank funds. - , . . ..; " Wellington, Friday. Recent private advices from Australia state that Adelaide will not export this year more than 70,000 tons of breadstuffs, ias against 200,000 tbns last year, Sydney thisjy'ear will be a.( large .importer of grain in cbnsequence;Qf the severer-drought. ij • :• 'Auckland, Friday, Mr Buckland reports: Beef, 23s to 28s per lOOlbs; mutton 2d to 2jd per Ib. Share cbarket; Bank of New Zealand, £& 15s to £20; National Bank, 65s to 67s 6d; Colonial do, 495; paid up, 33s 6d; South British insurance 80*; New Zealand do, 92s 6d; Loan and Mercantile, buyers, 523; sellers, 535;-New-Moanatiri, buyers,. 97s 6d;. sellers, 100s; Union Bank, 42s 6d. The charge against Captain Carey caused a scene in Court to-day. Carey was not present, and Captain Lodder applied for an adjournment. The charge was for'; neglect-' ing to pay GeQ. Frost, late mate of the Star of the South, £15 4s, balance of wages due. Mr Russell, for the'-'plaintiff^.objected to Lodder appearing for, defendant, on, v lhe ground of bis hot being a professional man and having no right to appear. The Bench considered the; case, should be adjourned: on account of Carey being at sea.' Mr Russell protested, and a scene ensued. The case was adjourned. Saturday. * At the Auckland Police Court to-day Mr Tonks was charged on the information !of: the Collector of Customs with haying uncustomed goods on his premises! He pleaded guilty and was fined £25. Captain Moffatt, of the barque Santiago was charged with landing a harmonium on which no entry had been passed. He also pleaded guilty and was fined £25. Another charge was withdrawn. Dunedin, Saturday. ■ In deciding the demurrer by 'fc. plaintiff to defendant's pleas in the case of the Fever Hospital, Judge Williams said:—" What we neve to decide is whether the powers given by the Public Health Act to Local Boards of Health would enable them to divert land held by them in another capacity from the purpose to which it has been devoted,, to divert it, not temporarily, but permanently, I have no hesitation in holding that the Public Health Act gives no power of the kind. As to the remedy being by prohibition, the Local Board of Health being a judical body, I am of opinion that that is, not the case.-: The Local Board of Health is- an adminiitrative body, and if it was a judical .body, the act now complained of is an administrative act. For these reasons «T. think t thedemurrer should be allowed with costs/ Leave was given, to amend the pleas. , The following is the^approkimate agricul'lfcuralj yield of Otago for the year 1877: — Wheat, '1,113,744 bushels; oafe,-'2,21437"? bushels; barley, 224,075; bushels; potatoes-' 231,477 tons. , ,; ~ -* *«*> * Thirteen prisoners are committed-for trial atj the 'criminal' sittings of the: Supreoje Court on the 4th of April. The offences are not of a serious character. , . There are no material" alterations"* in the produce or share market. - - i . '-S j-; "*):. - Saturday. .*■■ :Captain Barry last night lost "his"bet ql £50 made with the Davenport Bros, as theyliberated themselve 6( in?2o^.minutes. "»: ', Gbahamstown,'Saturday. -' The Moanatiri yield foTthe fortnight was 4912 011^068. The reef still looks-well. ,-■ '■ ' Oajiakit, Saturday. -; Captain Duncan Bain, of the topsail schooner Maid of Otago, lost Jus footing while.walkiug down;the upper, jetjiy, andjv)w " precipitated to the rocks below, a deptn of •:150 feet. He was found quite dead. Hokitika, Saturday. : The Government.have concluded ja'rrange-.' ments.for the purchase of the Kumara] water. . race from the Company for £$00.\. r ..\>\ J '\ .