INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 103, 1 May 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[press agency.] Dunedin, Tuesday night. The Star says that Mr Larnach's resignation of his seat as member for Dunedin will be placed in the Speaker's hands this week. Mr C S. Reeves comes forward in the GoOernment interest. The Chamber of Commerce has made strong representations to the Government about the defenceless state of Dunedin. Wanganui, Tnesday night. Maxwell's Hotel on the Patea road was burned to the ground this morning. The cause is unknown. Nothing was saved. The buildings were insured in the Union fo_£4oo, and the stock in the Imperial for £400. Wellington, Tuesday night. William Light, landlord of Barrett's Hotel, has laid an information against W. O'Connor, formerly Sergeant of Police at Canterbury, for attempting to poison him hy putting poison in a glass of liquor. Light was drinking with him on Sunday night before going to bed. Light says the poison was put in his glass while his back was turned attending on a customer. The case came before the Magistrate yesterday, and was remanded. The circumstance seemed so incredible that it was thought there "was some great misapprehension, and the sediment in the glass was examined by a chemist, who prorounced it to be morphia. It was then sent to Dr Hector, and it was understood it would not be tested until Mr Skey returned to town. It is now stated that Dr Hector has analysed it, and pronounced it to be strychnine, and there is enough in the glass to kill over twenty men. The case will come on again on Thursday. The Customs revenue collected at Wellington for this month amounts to £12,661, or about £1500 more than the corresponding month last year. Wednesday. Sir G. Grey left in the Hawea this afternoon to attend the Natife Meeting at Hikurangi. The following is Dr Hector's analysis of the matter supposed to be poison placed in the flag's of whisky which Mr Light, the

*• landlord of Barrett's Hotel was about to drink:— "The crystalline sediment was examined by various tests and found 'to be strychnine. The quantity pi_*efcetit exceeded two grains of strychriicfe. half a grain being sufficient to be fatal to an adult." The evidence collected by the police regarding the sulrofiftiding circumstances give the case a Very serious aspect. j Telegraphic commudication with Pott Darwin has been interrupted tifear Port Augusta, at the head of SpeaceN. Gulf, sincfc yesterday afternoon. OaiiAruv Tuesday bight. Messrs Hislop and Shrinisfei have addressed theit -ctons-iituehts. Mr Hislop said he opposed the Atkinson Ministry because t-o-ey were incompetent to govern the country. He believed that important questions affecting the colony would be more fairly and better dealt with by the present Minis*-, try. Mr Shrimski agreed in the main with his colleague's _*emarks> and both received an unanimous vote of Confidence and approval of their support to the Grey Ministry. Cl-RiBTtoHURCH, Tuesday evening. The knd sales for the month of April realised £70,000. Mrs Steele has been committed for tr___l in the Magistrate's Court for manslaughter. No new evidence was offered. Mr Conyers taaVes for Hokitika to-day to inspect the West Coast railways, and then proceeds to Nelson and Marlborough. Westport, Wednesday. Twenty-four hours rain has caused a heavy flood in the Buller which has overflowed, damaeing the railway line. Sir J. Coode is still here. ' The Binemoa and Tararua are in the roadstead but the flood in the river prevents their being communicated with. Auckland, Wednesday. Tthe Australia has arrived from Sydney with the outward San Francisco mails. Blenheim, Wednesday. Mr Henry Ingles of Kaikoura has consented to oppose Mr Saunders of Ashburton for the Cheviot seat.