INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 145, 17 June 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[press agency.] Wellington, Saturday. The total European population of the Wellington Provincial district is 51,648, the males numbering 21,069 and the females 23,379. The estimate of the Maori population . is not yet ascertained. In connection with the present kerosene scare Dr Hector sends a letter to the Town clerk in which he says that he finds from experiments on a small scale in the laboratory that kerosene having a flashing point of 85 degrees can be rectified so as to have its flashing point raised to 115 degress wiih a loss of five per cent, of bulk, and with proper precaution the dangerous oil now imported can be converted into marketable kerosene without danger and at a small cost. Monday. The Naw Zealander announces that the following judicial changes are about to be made:— District Judge Ward will be relieved of the duty of holding sittings at Milton and Invercargill,and will be required to preside in the new District Court to be established at Christchurch, as well as at Oamaru and Timaru as at present. District Judge Harvey of the Goluflelas District will be required to sit also at Inrercargill, and District Judge Bathgate of Dunedin wilt b* required to sit at Milton and Palmerston. Mr Woolcombe, R.M. of Timaru, retires on a pension. Mr Mellish, R.M. :■ of Christchurch, will bo transferred to Timaru. Mr Richmond Beetham, R.M. at Napier, will succeed Mr Mellish as R.M. at Christchurch. Mr Mansford^ R.M. at Port Chalmers, will on the 29th relieve Mr J. C. Crawford, R.M. of this city, who retires on a pension. Mr Mansford will also be District Judgs for Wellington and Wairarapa.- Mr Isaac Newton Watt R;M. at Dunedin will take charge of the Port Chalmers Court. No one is yet appointed to J succeed Mr Beetham at Napier but as a District Court is to be established there a professional man will be appointed to preside in both Courts. : '-. -.< , „ The case against T. Kennedy ;MacDonald, Auctioneer, for a breach pf the Conveyancing Ordinance was called on this morning but was adjourned for a week. Rewi has signified his willingness to accept a seat in the Legislative council to which, it is understood, he will be shortly called. Mr Henry Blundell, senior, late proprietor and founder of the Evening Pest, died at Sydney on Saturday, after a short illness, aged 65. At a meeting of Roman Catholics held last night for the purpose of starting a girls' school at Te Aro, £500 were collected in the room. Dunedin, Monday. A criminal information for libel was laid on Saturday by Mr Macassey, solicitor, against Mr G. M. Reed, the editor of the Otago Daily limes. ; The alleged libel was: contained in an article in the Daily Time*' entitled "Macassey on Law Courts,'* arid had reference to Messrs Rees and Hislop's billets. The Times states that Mr Reed will lay a similar information against Mr Macasaey today, the ground of. the libel being a letter which appeared in the Herald, 1. j >