INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 85, 9 April 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[press agency.] Auckland, Monday. Sailed — Wolverine for Tauranga with the Governor and suite. She will be absent about a fortnight. Mr Sheehan has ordered a re-hearing in the Poutau block of fifty thousand acres. In consequence of the statement made by a native prisoner, named Kingi, undergoing sentence for horse stealing, the Government has ordered a search to be made at Tauranga for the body of Potter, supposed, to be drowned there in August, 1875. Kingi told a fellow prisoner, that it did not matter his having killed Potter, as he bad suffered punishment for it. He said he killed Potter with a heavy piece of iron in a boat, and tied it to the body. At the half yearly meeting of the South British Insurance Company to-day, the report end balance-sheet were adopted. The chairman pointed out that the assets of the Company now reached £ 176,000; capital £100,000. The directors proposed to take a re-insnrance fund out of profits. The auditors, Messrs White and Batger, were reelected, and their honorarium increased from £75 to £100 ? The manager, in acknowledging a vote of thanks to the directors, read a statement as to the cost of manngement of the Company as follows :— First year, 23.7 per cent; second, 14.63; third, 24 37; fourth, 14.15; for the last half-year 16.47. The English fire insurance companies cost 27 per cent for working expenses. The working of the South British are 10 or 11 per cent below the English or American Companies, which latter reached 28 per cent. John Henry Lanifray, employed at Crowthers stable, fell from the roof, a distance of 14 feet, and sustained a concussion of the brain. He died in a few hours. At the inquesfc to-day, the verdict was accidental death. Alfred Porter's house narrowly escaped destruction by fire this morning through the servant placing a box of hot ashes near an outbuilding. Sir G. Grey and Mr Sheehan proceed to Waikato to-morrow. They will be entertained at a banquet at Hamilton. Colonel Whitmore goes to Wellington by the Taranaki, and will be replaced by Mr Eisner. Eive lads bolted from the Taranaki school on Saturday. . The Governor, with the Commodore, went to Tauranga to-day in H.M S. Wolverine. They will visit the Lake country. Tuesday. The departure of the Taranaki is postponed until to-morrow in order to take the Southern portion of the San Francisco mail The Hou Mr Fisher proceeded to Tauranga last night. Dunedin, Monday. Yesterday Bishop Moran delivered a discourse on the marriage question. He explained that marriages by the Registrar, though sinful, and carrying with them the penalty of excommunication in the case of Catholics, yet were valid, and no power on earth could dissolve them. Mr Green, the candidate for Port Chalmers in the General Assembly, addresses the "electors to-merrow. Blenheim, Tueiday. The census returns give Blenheim 873 males and 817 females. In 1874 the population was 404 males and 441 females, showing an increase of 757. At Pict n in 1874 there were 393 males, and 3H9 females. Now there are 351 males and 357 females, showing a decrease of 24 The population of the province was 6146 in 1874; now it is 7,552. Lyttelton, Tuesday. In reply to an enquiry the Lyttelton Harbor Board have received a telegram from the Government to the effect that no warning has been received from Home to protect the harbors of the colony. A man named O'Leary reported to the police yesterday that he was garotted early on Sunday morning and robbed of about £10. About 2 o'clock on Sunday morning a cabdriver was stuck up near the river Styx, on the north road, by two men, but giving his horse a vigorous cut with the whip he managed to escape. Wellington, Monday. There was a fire on the Terrace this afternoon in a house which is insured in the Standard office for £600, and the iurniturein the South British for £350. The damage to the house is about £100. Mrs Brewer, whose husband died a few days ago, made a statement at the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day to the effect that she believed her husband died in consequence of the inefficient treatment of the two medical men who attended him. She says her husband would have lived if he had been attended properly. It is said an order has been given to exhume the body. Tuesday. In the Supreme Court this morning Mr Barton obtained leave to postpone his motion for an attachment against the Argus proprietors at the suit of E. T. Gillon. The case comes on ngain on Friday next. The Loan aud Mercantile Agency reports under date Bth April:— The wop} sales closed

at an average decline, £d to Id per lb. The sales comprised about 213,000 bales, 37,000 being held over for future disposal, and 125,900 taken for export. The principal decline has been in medium. Superior, greasy white, inferior, and medium have declined Id since the close of last sales. Oross-breds are easier, and lambs firmer, irade in manufacturing districts is unchanged. Home buyers are purchasing sparingly, but there is moderate compstition m tne French account. .CHUts^rcßiuitcft, J-he intuitive Methodists' meeting house was broken iuto oh Saturday or Sunday night, and the Alissions boxes were robbed. Nfav Plymouth, Monday. At the settling for the races, £564 were paid in stakes. The Harbor Board has appointed the Bank of New Zealand as its agent to rase the loan; Oam aho, Tuesday, Sailed— Yesterday, schoo: cr Richard "and Mary for Nelson-.