INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 136, 8 June 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

["-"BESS AGENCY.] Donedin, Friday. An influential meeting was held here today, re the construction of the railway from Gore to the Elbow, a distance of 35 miles. It was represented by several speakers that it would open up a large area of agricultural land. A company having a capital of £150,000 was formed to carry out the work. Saturday. It is understood that Sir John Coode'a report has been sent to the Harbor Board, and that it lecommends that a portion of the Board's reserve, which recently led to so much discussion, should be set aside as a railway reserve, also that Sir J. Coode is of opinion that dredging operations will have an injurious effect on the bar at the Heads. The .Commissioner of Police has had prepared a return of all criminal offences in the Middle Island for the year ending 30th April last. Canterbury heads the list with 3,935 offences, Otago and Southland following with 3556. Drunkenness has been the most prevalent offence in each Provincial district. The Herald this morning states !that Rees and Hislop's bill of costs in the Jones trial covers twenty-three pages of foolscap. In addition to the items previously telegraphed there are the following ones:— " He striking the Jury List, attending Messrs Stout aad Reed, submitting list and conferring thereon, long attendance, £1 ls ; " "Having received list from Hislop and Creagh, with instructions for perusing, &c, 6s 8d;" "Attending Reed and Fenwick and conferring, 13s 4d;" "Jury List having been sent, going carefully through same with you, and attending on various persons as to jurymen, £2 25." The total amount of the fees alleged to have been paid to Mr Rees is £920 13s, and the total amount to T. W. Hislop, £419 8s 6d. Among the larger items paid to Mr Rees in addition to that for the brief and refresher occur the following:— "Paid Rees on demurrer, £15 15s ; " "Rees to argue demurrer, £21;" '-Fee in Wellington Police Court, £22." The following items all appear in the bill :— "lnstructions for brief, £52 10s;" "Drawing brief, £75;" "Engrossing, £70-" "Copy for Bislop, £70." Oamaru, Friday. lhe recent heavy rains have entirely prevented transactions in grain. Quotations are.— Wheat, 4s ; oats, 3s to 3s 3d; barley ss; flour, £11 to. £11 ss, f.o.b ; oatmeal, £18---pearl barley, £20; pollard, £5 ss, bran, £4.; Wellington, Friday. In connection with the appointment of a new District Judge for the Wellington district, it is understood that he will have to perform all the varied duties which at present devolve upon Mr Crawford, who, besides his dutirs as Resident Magistrate, acts as Sheriff, Registration and Returning Officer Marshal of Admirality Court, and Resident Magistrate for Hutt. Judge Ward and Mr Mansford are both spoken of as probable successors to Mr Crawford. T ™ w , hole of the loc * 1 press approves of Mr Clarke's drainage scheme. The rain fall since Sunday has been three inches. mv at rr Saturday. Ibe New Zealander announces tbat Mr Thomas A. Mansford has been appointed District Judge for the Wellington and Wairarapa districts and will probably assume his new duties in about a month. Yesterday tenders were signed for the following constacts:— Extension of Railway from Kai Iwi to Waitotara, 12 miles; and Port extension of Nelson and Foxhill Railway. . Auckland, Friday. The Loraine's homeward cargo is valued at about £60,000, aud comprises the following—Wool, £12,619; gum, £13,354; gold, £13,560; silver, £575; leather, £5022: and the remainder najscejlaneous.

Canterbury flour, £13 10b; oatmeal, £20; bran, £6 10s ; oats, 4s 6d to 4s 9d; maize, 7s; potatoes, £3 ios to £4; bacon, English, IOd; Canterbury, 3d. The forty thousand pounds voted by the lieneral Assembly for Auckland will be paid oyer by the Treasury to-morrow, and equally divided among the eighteen operative Counties in the Provincial District. « CkkiSTCHCKcn, Friday. •Banners being busy with seed sowing, there is little grain offering first hand. Wheat is slighly easier; best milling worth 4s 9d to 4a lOd, f.0.b.; millers' stocks being limited, no material decline is anticipated. Flour, firm afc £12 to £13, stocks low; bran and sharps, £5 and £6 respectively, no stocks; oats, 3s 3d to 3s 6d; barley, 5s 6d, scarce, good samples in demand; cheese, 6Ad; butter, IOd; hams and bacon, 7£d. The weather is clearing up. x Lawrence, Saturday. A gteat deal more damage has been done by the rain than was at first imagined. There have been considerable losses at Weatherstone s, Gabriel's, and fche Waitahuna, where several claims suffered greatly. There are heavy slips at the tunnel aud round the hill roads, and the railway is more or less seriously injured. The flood was the heaviest remembered here for the past eleven years