IN TEE PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 143, 19 June 1877, Page 2

IN TEE PROVINCIAL.

Ddnedin, Monday. The sum of £300 was collected in Knox Church yesterday for the purposo of reducing the debt on the Church. / |Napiek, Monday. Mr Miller reports the sale of M __ellan_thd Chandler's Pakaumoana freehold^-df - 7,06a acres, and Kaiwaka leasehold of about'23,ooo' acres, seventeen ;ycars to run, rent £32 per annum— the whdie estate, with $1 thVstatioh plant and 8,000 sheep, for £15,0 J0, to Mr Hmdmarsh, formerly of Adelaide. Auckland, Monday. Plinney, a settler at Otahuhu, waa thrown from a cart on Saturday night, and sustained concussion of the spine. He died this morning. Mr Hugh Lusk is to address the electors of Franklyn on Wednesday. The cutter Rob Roy, from Samoa, brings news to the 3rd inst. The Samoan chiefs, on their return home after their unsuccessful attempt to secure from Sir Arthur Gordon the British Protectorate, commenced negotiations with the American Consul, which resulted in the hoisting of the- Stare and Stripes. It is not: known whether the American Consul has beei authorised by his Government. r• " ' * ' The steamer Wellington was off ;Mapukau bar. yesterday morning, but; owing to the westerly gale" has not yet crossed. V iTwo collisions occurred in the harbor — The ferry stealer Davenport ran into the brigantinc Flirt on Saturday night, carrying away the martingale ; the Flirt's jibboom swept the steamer's deck, carrying away the funnel and doing other damage" The barque .Victoria, coming from Newcastle, ran.nto .the schooner Christian, lying at anchor under the North Head, at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning. The . schooner is much injured; Inquiries are to-be held. s _" y '. Reefton, Tuesday The Defiance .Company has struck a gold bearing reef at the same level as the Golden Fleece and three, hundred feet south [of the latter's boundary. From the sauie reef gold was obtained some time ago at 150 ft. higher level. ■ ' ;' Wellington,; Tuesday, . The Times this morning says that it learns that a serious charge .has befen ~ brought against the management; of the Mount View Lunatic Asylum for the alleged ill-. -_atrnent of a patient, aud insinuates that the Asylum has been mismanaged since the death of Mr Seager. __„ Hokitika, Tuesday. The steamer Albion arrived in the roadstead last night, but will not be tendered till this afternoon. rru * Y Christchdrch > Tuesday. xne Orood Templars purpose holding further meetings to discuss the Local Option Bill. * The City Council has received & letter from, nearly every municipality in the colony favorable to the proposed conference in J Wellington re the Municipal subsidies. The conference will most likely be . held a fortnight after Parliament meets'. The fire at Lyttelton is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. Nothing reliable is yet known as to insurances or actual value of gcjods in the shed. !