INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 146, 18 June 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

fPRKSS AGENCY.] m, -r, , Wellington, Monday. lhe Underwriters Association, report:— London, June 13.— Arrived : Crowntborpe, trom Napier ; Anteres, from Lytteiton.

Tuesdtiv An attempt is about being made to induce the Government not to sell the present Court House on Lambton Quay, but to convert it into a post office so as to allow the present Custom House buildings to be used solely for rm£ H3 ? om fiouse antl Telegraph offices. Llhis is of course a deeply interesting item of news to everyone out of Wellington or it woujd never have been telegrephed.] {, Applications have been made fc over 160 000 shares in the Colonial Insurance Company; only 100,000 are to be allotted. Ihe Presbyterians of Welliogton intend to erect a church and school on the Adelaide road.

Twenty-nine Municipalities are to be represented atthe Conference to be held here. The Customs authorities have offered to have ali parcels of kerosene tested upon arrival provided the Corporation renders the necesl sary assistance.

Ifc is understood that it is the intention of the Government to call in all the arms and ammunition from the civil branch of the Constabulary throughout both islands

■mt -n 3 , • , Ddnedin, Monday. Mr Keed laid a criminal information for mu ag £ insfc Mr Maca9s ey this afternoon Ihe Dunedin election will be hotly contested, and it is supposed that the uitraMinisteralists will support Mr Oliver

T „ 0 Napier, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court last night George Edward Toop was found guilty of absconding with moneys which should have been divided amongst his creditors, and sentenced to 12 months hard labor. When charging the grand jury, Judge Eichmond referred to the case as an instance that the arm of the law could even now reach a long distance the prisone-r having been arrested at a place more than 200miles beyond Sydney, and he added tbat the time might arrive when it would reach to the furthest corner of tbe civilized world. In every case tried this assize a conviction has been obtained.

. Greymouth, Tuesday. _ A fire was discovered at 6.30 this morning m a rfour. roomed cottage, occupied by Mr Hunter, tobacconist. The fire had full hold of the building when discovered. After ifc was extinguished the bodv of Mr Hunter was found dead in his bed much charred. There is no knowledge of how the fire originated. Mr Hunter was universally respected.