INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 204, 26 September 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PRESS AGENOT.I FURIOUS GALE. A CHURCH BLOWN DOWN AT CHRISTCHURCH. Christohuhch, Thursday. During the gale yesterday the new Presbyterian Church at Lincoln lately erected at a cost of £700 was levelled to the ground. A goods station on the railway line Yf&a also blown down.

t *i v T Wellington Tlfrorsdpy. In the House last night.to Stevens introdiiceda Bank HolScfty Bill, the object of J! .-si! H to rease the number of bank boli&iys by four, .and to make them the same a* in Victoria. The EJH \vns read a second time. the Corporation of Wellington have decided to provide a site upon which to erect a Sailors' Home. The Government will contribute £500 towards the Cot. P.Uka, Wedne^feV. Iferokt, the MomiAhakl mtirderei-, was seen on Sund.iy, and ft believed lo be holering , aTonnd W-ftito'lara, hoping to get his wife away. A. <.lroug armed party of Natives and Mrnpeans started this morning to scour the hush on the Okutatii and Mounahaki blocks lhe Government offer a reward to any person materially aiding in the captureof Heroki. Noeftorts are being spared by the Government officers and settlers, and the Waitotam na ivcs arc showing themselves willing to help. Hone Piha.na was at Waitotara today assisting the search and 01-ganisinr !» party m conjunction with Captai.n Vray. " , , . .-. . DuSed'tx, Thursday. A deputation watted on Mr Bathgate K AI., and presented him with an influeniiully signed address, expressing sympathy with bim in consequence o£ his conduct on the Bench naving recently been called in question Mr Bathgate thanked the deputation for the address, and said he believed that whatever difference of opinion had prevailed was due to misapprehension. ™. . , o amaru, Thursday. lhe night goods train which ia supposed to leave Oamaru at .130 a.m., did not leave till 4.30 When at Pukenite one of the trucks got off the line and the train had to be stopped. The passenger train which left lalmerstonatG.lo am. ran into the goods tram before "danger" was signalled. The driver of the passenger train James White in jumping off, had his left leg broken The nreman escaped and noue of the passengers were injured. The line is repaired and traffic resumed. watc xr v * AtjckLa '* d > Thursday, U.AI.&. Nymph from the Chathams reports that the natives of those islands have caught and cured about 1500 albatrosses, and intend to send them to Taranaki per Omaha for the great native meeting to be held next March When the Nymph was anchored at Hicks Bay it was reported that the natives at airou had quarelled, and formed two hostile parties, each taking possession of a pa and maintaining a warlike attitude lhe Waikato chief, William Barton, has determined to go to Wellington to aid Sir G Grey. He has used his influence with the tribe to secure the capture of the murderer Heroki if he turns up in that vicinity