INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 101, 1 May 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Monday. The Customs revenue collected at the Port of Wellington during the month of April amounted to £14,173, as against £15,757 for the same month last year. Signors del Vescovo and Sani, Italian sculptors, have just completed a statue of the late Dr Featherston in Carasi marble, at a cost of two hundred guineas. It is considered the finest work of art ever seen in the colony, and they have been specially re- j quested to remain here till the formal unveiling next week at tbe Museum. They leave for Melbourne, under contract for the O'Connell statue, the price being two thousand guineas. Tuesday. A supplement to the Gazette issued last night contains rules and regulations, 282 in number, for the management of New Zealand railways. Auckland, Monday. The first stone of the masonry work for the new dock was laid ito-day. Walker, the trance medium, gave a lecture on Saturday night. He professed to be controlled by the spirit of the Rev- J. Stewart, who died in 1805. The v. hole affair, was a rank imposture, the lecture evidently having been written and committed to memory. The audience asked numerous questions, aud Captaiu Casey suggested that a policeman should be called in. Christchurch; April 30. From an apology to Mr G. M. Reed, of the Otago Guardian, published in the Wavangi Tribune, it seems that Mr Reed offered to stop the proceedings commenced against the proprietor if he (Cuming) would publish an apology and pay £200. Cuming expressed his willingness as to tbe apology, but signified his utter inability to pay the sum demanded, Tbe letters which passed on the subject were read at the trial, and counsel for the defendant pleaded that the case should be remanded, and the apology would be published. The Court, however, committed Cuming for trial, and on Saturday an explanation and apology appeared in the Wavangi Tribune, simultaneously with a report of the case. A match has been arranged to take place next month between the Christchurch and Wellington Archery Clubs. The congregation of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church are importing a organ which wiil cost £360 in England. Sir Cracroft Wilson had a narrow escape of being killed on Saturday, by a tree which was being cut down falling on him. He was severely cut on the head. A young man, employed by Kin? and Co., Christchurch, being ill, went to the hospital a few days ago. In a short time he became violently light-headed, and was at once declared a lunatic and sent to the asylum. The medical officer of the asylum, in examining the alleged lunatic, found it nothing else than a bad case of typhoid fever. Proper treatment was at once adopted, but to the great inconvenience of the other inmates (the asylum being much overcrowded). A room was cleared and every precaution used against the spread of the contagion, bnt all that could be done for the patient was unavailable, and after lingering some days he expired at midnight on Friday. An inquest well be held this afternoon. I Strong feeling is expressed at certain hospital authorities. Tuesday. Count de la Pasture's property iv the Amuri, comprising 8,538 acres freehold, 28,938 leasehold, and 13,279 licensehold, with 18,000 sheep and sundry cattle and horses, has been sold to Mr W. A. Low for £26,000. At the inquest at the Lunatic Asylum on the body of Gilchrist, the man who. while delirious from typhoid fever, was sent by the Hospital authorities to the Asylum with a certificate that he was suffering from acute mania, after hearing evidence the jury returned the following verdict:— We find that deceased died from natural causes, but considerable blame, in our opinion, is attached to the Hospital authorities for not having discovered the case to have been one of typhoid fever, aud for having sent a man suffering from fever to an asylum. Timaru, Monday. A very heavy sea arose this afternoon with the S.W. wind. All the vessels in the roadstead have put to sea, as several were dragging their anchors. The Herald, in a leader this morning, states that the Governors of the Australian Colonies have received instructions from the Secretary of State as to their conduct in the case of Great Britain being involved in war. They are directed to resist auy attack as far as possible, bnt if resistance is impossible, then to comply with the requisitions made by the enemy, the Empire undertaking to repay sums thus levied. , New Plymouth, Tuesday. The prospects of the new rush on the north bank of the Terangahau are improving. Eight claims have bottomed on good gold and the supposed line of lead is pegged off, several chains wide, for nearly a mile. Should the shafts bottomed this week strike gold there will be a large rush. About 300 people are on the ground. Greymouth, Tuesday. The Kumara and Greymouth Tramway commences running to-morrow. Hokitika, Tuesday. Great interest was taken in the election for the General Assembly yesterday. The total returns from Ross, Woodstock, Donoghue's aud Redman's show a majority of 21 in favor of Mr Gisborne. The returns from further south are not yet to hand, but they cannot possibly affect the result, and Mr Gisborne's return may be looked upon as certain.