INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 104, 2 May 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[press agency.] Auckland, Wednesday. It is expected that the Premier will leave here forHikurangi on Eriday. One subject the natives will propose at the forthcoming • meeting will be an enactment next session to stop all purchases of land outside the confiscated boundary. ! The Australia sailed for San Francisco this afternoon. She took forty -five saloon passengers from Auckland with a quantity of cargo. . ■ i ' ■ ■ - Timartj, Wednesday, i The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency intend laying on ships to load wool and produce for England. Wellington, Wednesday. A servant girl named Barnes last night endeavored to blow out a kerosene lamp containing about a pint, of oil. It burst all over the girl, and in about a second the kitchen was in a flame. The girl being in the centre of the flames was dreadfully burnt. She was taken to the hospital, but died at four o'clock this morning, exonerating anybody else from blame. She was quite sensible. Sir John Coode will go straight from Westport to New Plymouth, then overland to Wanganui, and next to Napier. The Hinemoa after leaving him at Taranaki will go to Auckland to bring the Governor back to Wellington. William O'Connor was this morning charged at the R.M. Court with attempting to poison William Light. According to Light's evidence he had only known prisoner three weeks, and last Sunday night before going to bed he paid Light for his board and lodging. He was going to leave the next day, and Light asked him to have a parting drink. After bringing the drinks in, the bell rang for some drink upstairs which Light served, and then came back and pulled up his chair to have five minutes chat with O'Connor when he noticed something white on the rim of the glass and down the inside. He asked the prisoner what that meant, when he said " I suppose you got a dirty glass." Witness tasted the powder from the inside of the glass ; and found it very bitter, and said "Oh ! Lord what a beastly taste.'' After O'Connor went to bed, Light examined the hearthrug where O'Connor had been sitting, and found some crystals on it. The prosecution obtained a remand for eight daya, bail being refused.