INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 139, 14 June 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Wednesday. Calderwood was found guilty of assault with intent to murder, and sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude. • The Wellington sails North at midnight, Passengers-Messrs Healy, Mathias, Salvin, Pallott, Shearman, aed Murphy. Arrived— Queen of the West, after a fine weather passage of 105 days from London. The Carnatie cleared for London with 12 passengers, and a cargo valued at £28,000. Lyttelton, Wednesday. Arrived— Turner and Go's barque Lurline, from Glasgow, after a passage of 94 days. She brings 1600 tons of cargo; The Lurline is a fine vessel of 760 tons register, built by Stevens and Sons, Glasgow. The Hinemoa, with' his Excellency the Governor, Captain Mating, arid the Hon. Mr. Bowen oa board, left for Wellington at 6 p.m. : ' . , Hokitika, Wednesday. 1 The river is subsiding ; , no damage has been , done. There is a good sea on the bar, but the channel is- good. . ; ' Auckland, Wednesday. . Captain Young has arrived from Rorotanga to superintend the erection of an oil mill to crush copra here, instead of transhipping it to England. A Volunteer Artillery corps is to be established at Onehunga. The funeral of Pilling was.largely attended to-day. At a meeting of the City Council, a letter from the Town Clerk at Christchurch, was read. It expressed dissatisfaction at the method employed by the Government in deducting portions of the subsidy for charitable purposes, and proposed a meeting of delegates at Wellington. Mr Errington is appointed consulting engineer for the waterworks, at a salary of £150. J A letter was read from the Colonial Secretary, saying that the Government would forward a bill for making a loan of £25,000, aathorised for completing the waterworks, the second charge on a special rate to be levied under the Act of 1876, if the said bill is prepared by the Council and laid before the House. ! Application was made to the Supreme i Court to-day for a Ucensa which the Court at Kaipara had refused to grant on the ground that the place was outside its jurisdiction. The Judge said every license granted by a Court outside its jurisdiction was void. The Waste Lands Board ha3 resolved to ask the Government to hand over 183,000 acres near the southern boundary of the Auckland district. A petition from the Tauranga settlers, requesting that 4000 acres be granted on the deferred payment system, will be granted when the land is transferred to the Board. Sixteen similar applications have been received. ' ; The schedule of confiscated lands has been sent to" Wellington, and it is expected the land will be shortly handed over to "the : Board. j A letter from the Secretary of. Crown Lands approves of the sale, with modifications, of land to Mr Stuart for special settlemen.. m, , „ Thursday. -the schooner Samoa, from Fiji, brings intelligence of tbe drowning of Mr Allen Buiiie, formerly a warden at the -Thames, off the Island of Mokogai. He had ..purchased the schooner Beatrice, in which he left Levuka for Mokogai, when a squall struck her, and she careened over and sank. Mr Bailie and two Sandwich Islanders clung to -the scuttle, and were washed about heavily. The natives tried to sustain Mr Bailie but he became exhausted, released his hold,' bade the natives good bye, and sank. A concert was got up in aid of his family. t u c Napiee, Wednesday. JLn the Supreme Court yesterday, John Carfcwright and James Peters, charged with obtaining money under false pretences, were acquitted. Charles Harry Ingle, pleaded guilty to a charge of forging two small cheques amounting together to £6 ss. Hans Peterson was acquitted on a charge of arson. The principal witness against him was a Maori woman married to a white man, and she admitted having been imprisoned six months for stealing a watch. Prisoner received an excellent pharacterfrom witnesses of undoubted credibility. There was an indictment against some mau for assaulting the. same Maori woman with intent, but no evidence was offered upon it, and the Judge dismissed the case. This morning Ingle, for forgery, was sentenced to two years hard labor. The whole day was occupied in the trial of James Neagle and three others for forcible entry of premises that had formerly belonged to Neagle, but which at the time were in the possession of Macfarlaneon abill of sale from Neagle to M 1 Arthur and Co. of Auckland. Mr Rees prosecuted. The jury found Neagle guilty, but acquitted the others. Neagle was sentenced to a fine of £100, or in default three months' imprisonment without hard labor. Gbahamstown, Wednesday. At the adjourned licensing meeting to-day all the applications but one were granted. The Licensed Victuallers petitioned the Bench to recommend a reduction in the license fees. Christchdhoh, Wednesday. A proposal to send a team of fifteen cricketers to Victoria and New South Wales next season is being freely and very favorably discussed. The Lyttleton water supply works were tested last night with success. The water is obtained from an artesian well on the Christchurch side of the hill, then pumped into a tank on one of the lower hills, then carried along the railway line, through the tunnel to nearly every part of the town by pipe3. A deputation waited upon the Hon. C. C. Bowen to suggest certain alterations in the Christchurch Drainage Act, the principal one being that the district be divided into wards, so that each ward would be rated according to the works carried on in it. Thus, if costly deep sewers are required in a particular ward, that ward alone shall pay for them, instead of— as would be the case under the Act as it now stands -all parts of the district paying an equal rate. Very heavy rain fell last night; all the rivers very high. In the Waimakariri, the heavy flood overflowed the banks OU to the railway line, and about midday traffic was completely stopped. On the South railway line, the xiakaia washed away part of the approaches to the bridge, delaying the traffic i Ihe weather being fine to-day, the rivers are ' . now subsiding. j A man named Hugh Fergusson, who arrived from Wellington last week, dropped down dead in Frank's boarding house this morning. Congestion of the brain supposed to be the cause of death. „ T Dunedin, Thursday. F Walker, the trance medium, gave a public lecture last night. The attendance was large, but the lecture was of an inferior character, and the general opinion is that there is no truth in Walker's pretensions to supernatural inspiration

There are now in the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum no less thon 235 patients, of whom 72 are females. . . The debate on the dock question has 9 now assumed the phase of whether or not the docks will be so placed as to give value to Mr Proudfoot's speculation in purchasing a ' large block of unclaimed land from the late Provincial Government. Mr Proudfoot, as contractor for the dredging and rock walling, required Is. per cubic yard extra to move the docks accordiug to the former plan of Mr Walters' on the ground that the proposal involving a further haulage than the original plan, but now agrees, for a much further haulage, and also, consents to lift the stoce walling already laid down if required. By this latter plan the Board will be deprived of the most valuable portion of its endowment, and will immensely enhance the value of Mr Proudfoot's previous speculation. Port Chalmers, Thursday. Sailed— Hawea, for North. Passenger for Nelson—Mr Ponsonby.