INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 10, 11 January 1879, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

{pßKgfi AOENCV 1 , . Wellington-, Saturday. It is ascertained that the cause which' led to tuu recommendation that Welsh's sentence snould be commuted to i.-iu<risonuieot for life was the mental condition of the prisoner when be committed the murder.— The Customs revenue for the first financial half-year amounts to £6S2,<iS4, which shows an increase on the estimates of the Colonial Treasurer of about £4") .1.00.— The Ch-on cle says tnat the Hon. Mr Shfehan had no intention of bring prrsent at the Ngatimamopoto meeting unless at the earnest solicitations of the Natives. Pinfire is scratched for the Wellington Cup.— The j urneynvjii painters are moving for an increase of the day's pay from 9s to lOs - — A petition has been forwarded to the Premier praying the Government to push on the enlargement of the railway station, int'uding the reclamation at Pinitca Point,— By a city by-law cabs are prohibited from carrying corpses.— Through the energetic efforts of the Carterton people the threatened d.tniage by ihc bush fire waj» averted. The snfpty of much property wajjaxgely due to'a lull in the wind at a critiqgFfane. — Tarues Pud'iey was dnviug a horse^rtth a dmy load of timber, when the load. Slipped and the horse getting: frightened knocked Pudney down, trampled on him and brcakiii" his jaw. Mr^D M. Luckie, the present editor of the i'ost, has accepted the a]>poiutment of Commissioner of Annuities at a salary of £SOO. At a meeting of the regatta Committee last night, the subscription lists showed a total of £230 in addition to which cups were given by the N.Z. Shipping Company, Messrs Shaw Saville and Company, Kohuan and Company, Joseph and Company, tin; I'nion Steam Shipping Company. Mr Cohen, Mr Hislop and Mr Shaw. Nearly all the prizes are hi»her than last year. The Government have, chartered a steamer of -27J) • tons through the New Zealand Shipping Company, to bail wiihiunnigmuts about the -28th instant. The ship Taranaki left Glasgow for Port Chalmers in November with 293 immigrantsthe Boyne left Plymouth for Lyttelton on the 18th November with 350 immigrants. 'Ihe Agent General reports a further fall in the irou market. New Plymouth, Saturday. A bed of shelly limestone has been discovered near the coast, six miles from New Plymouth. A singular geological feature is that it crops up through tufa, ami is part of an older formation. It will be valuable for mixing with ihe pozzaland of the locality for making hydraulic cement. Auckland, Saturday. Captain Symonds, master of a small coasting schooner, has been missing for the past four days aid is supposed to be drowned. Seven sq are rigged vessels are now loading at Makuru.