INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 166, 11 July 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[tRESS AOSNOT.] nn. . ' Inve b c abgil_, Wednesday. Ihe nomination of candidates for tbe Invercargill election took place to-day. Messrs J. H. Bamand H. Feldwick were the only candidates proposed. The showof hands was in favor of the former. „ ~ Dunedin, Wedresday. Mr Henry Driver announces himself as a candidate for Eoslyn. ':■'■.' , Welmngtow, Thursday. Arrived: ship Elizabeth from Glasgow, with tbe plant for the Wanganui gasworks, after a passage of 117 days.- She is leaking . considerably. * _„ „_ • ' 'Ltttelton,- Thursday. Ihe Wanaka with the San Francisco mail whiclrleft' here at 11 p.m. on Monday for Port Chalmers arrived back in harbor towed by the Kingarooma at 12.40. a.m. to-day. When about 100 miles to the southwest of Port Chalmers at 3 a.m. yesterday, a very heavy sea running at the time, she lost the whole of the bjades of her propeller. The wind being southerly and westerly, sail was made and the vessel headed back up the Coast. At 6.30. p.m. yesterday when off Akaroa, the Kingarooma picked her up and towed her in. The mails and passengers were transhipped to the Kingarooma wbich sailed south at three this morning. The Wanaka bas not sustained any further damage. Ch^istchubch, Thursday. At the inquest on the body of Mrs Hoff, the evidence showed that Hoff and his wife and the man Barrett lived in tbe same bouse, which only contaiued one room, and belonged to Barrett. Hoff was a lazy, drunken fellow, and constantly used violent language to tbe deceased/who was a > hard working woman, and took his abuse very quietly. Hoff was very jealous of the deceased, bnt Barrett asserted that he never knew the latter give any cause for it. Barrett provided all the fpod for the house, and Hoff naid nothing for himself and. wife jiving there. ; Hoff, wben arrested; adtriitted having killed the deceased. He said he -,vas cutting scraps in thp garden; He then walked inside, and, being hungry, he wanted some tea and bread, when his wife would not give it him. He then took, theltonjahawk and walked to the table and cut some tobacco with it. He was growling that she : would not give him his breakfast. Deceased' then walked mside and took an iron and wanted to strike him, when he turned back and took the tomahawk and gave her a clout on the head. Afterwards, he said, he walked to the fire, took a light, and put it in the bed and then cleared 'out. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder. , A -man named Timothy Holdham has been arrested for a criminal assault on a girl nine years of age. .•'*»" ..-.■>■-.