INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 274, 26 November 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[V&KBS AOENOT.,I S Wellington, Tuesday. The report which has been circulated that the Hon. Colonel Whitmore is about to resign his seat in the Cabinet and go home is.sntirely without foundation. '-IJ is understood that Mr Henry Bunny M.H.R., has been appointed a member of the Jackson's Bay Commission. ' A examination into the question of the Bteam service between England and the colony, as proposed by Mr-Macandrew shffjvs that the coat would be about £60,000' per annum. _ — v •- . Order! have,beon given for the .negotiation o£t° e purchase of land froth . Natives' on SajpUi, and Stephen's Island :Eor lighthouses.' The following were the prices of colonial stock in the London market from the UtnSeptemberto.the Bth October:— New Zealand Five per cent consolsrinj Sept. 101; Qct: lOOf; New Zealand 4* perceii*. Sept. 94;';-Oct. 92^-; Five per cent, 104; recent loffo, Sept. 98A- Opt 9% Queensland 4 per cent, Sept. 90; Oct. 89.V; New South Wale3, 4per cent, Sept. "97; Oct.- 97-J-,- ;-.. (.Q, AucKLAND,;Monday. ' 'Father Henneberry's mission was attended by ; ;3500 persons. ' .'■ i ' - ' .--Choluiondeley Smith, a teacher, has obtained a verdict against the Board of Education for £100 damages for wrongful dismissal, they having discharged him without consulting the Local Committee. Dunkdej, Monday. At the conclusion of the sitting in Bank-"' ruptcy tlti&Ttiaorning, the Registrar directed the attention of . the profession, to 1 the, '.provisions of the Debtors" and Creditors Act,' f 1878, now in force, and pointed out that no meeting of creditors could take place 'until : an affidavithad been filed netting forth that 1 ; the provisions of the Amendment Act had ■■ been complied with. The clause to which he ;N referred was the 10th clause of the New Amendment Act. • '■.-< -r.:.\ - .o :■:, ') ui T x . •■•■' : ' ! • i Tuesday. -. *At a meeting. last night) it. was resolved to : ; contribute £200: oui o f the surplus of the' Flood Relief Fond to the suffers by the Waimate fire. , .., . ; ; A meeting of master . builders, held last' flight^ resolved not to advance wages beyond s the current rates, which are for plasters Isa; r bricklayers, <-14s ; masons, 14s--; carpenters,* 12s ; painters, 12s ; laborers 8s and 9s per ; : day. -„; ;,;;; „ . „; _ v, : , , * ... '•'..«!j :. Neyv Plymouth, Monday.* ! A. large and influential deputation waited on the. -Native Minister this. morning with reference to the holding of thesale of the - Waimate plains , at . 'New Plymouth. : ,- Mr Sheehan ; said :iie .would cominunieate • the wishes, of the deputation, to the Department but thought that the sale, might beilield in 1 Wellington. Tug deputation also asked that 1000 immigrants might be sent . to Taranaki as well as 250 single girls as servants/as " there was a, great , scarcity, of, all kinds of labor in Tarauaki.. This Mr Sheehan said he would attend to, and as.it was fearea there would:: pot tha. labor enough. .to 1 gefc: in. the harvest ibat.some; men migrhfc.be: sent here from Otago and the West Coast.' m , : . ■:,.-. x '!< -■■■>:.'.; - Gkettown, Tuesday; -M : ; A man,:giviag the name of James Murphy, ■ Otis been arrested here charged with having last night committed a violent , indecent assault on a little, girl named Cowper at Moro, near Greytown. The child is about nine j years of age. !: ;L _ Napieb, Tuesday. " n rMr Sutton addressed a meeting last night m the Theatre Royal. The building was crowded in every part. Mr Buchanan had advertised in" the Herald calling the " Greyites " to the ,frppfc and a noisy meeting.was expected. When, Mr Suttoti* propped, Mr 1 Kennedy tp the chair.'Mr BuohanaDi-cainfe? forward, and, after referring'to tis advertise'-' 1 ment, said the meeting was not an ordinary one .but would be a test ..of feeling in the district^jtherefore, he waated^an. impartial \ chairmajf and: he proposed qs an' aineßdaaent to :Mr Sutton's proposition, that *Mr McDougall, a working man, take the^chai^' A great uproar ensued, calls for Mr Kennedy befog very general. At length, to settle the ' toatter, Mr Buchanant-. put it iio a *'.sh6w,. of ! hands when only, a few were held up -for-Mr Me Dougall and quite a forest of hands' for Mr Kennedy, Then Mr Sutton reviewed the - work of the session, attacking the Ministry ori many points, but. particularly about the Elecj tdral Bill being abandoned, ' and' about : the jMaon franchise. When, he" concluded and.had answered some questions, Mr .Bee's" waß:called and he began ,t» tnako, a speech but was continually interrupted bj noises of all He persisted' in speaking arid : then the people rose up to go away, bUt f nrstiof all somebody ia the 'body of the Theatre moved a rote of confidence iu Mr Sutton and enthusiastic cheers were given for him.'< Mr JSennedy left tthk chair amidst: great oproar, but the lights were tint out and the meeting ended.