INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 94, 21 April 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Tprbbb agency/] •m. nii Btt ™»ow, Saturday night. The Collector of Customs has been formally instructed to take proceedings against ihe Taiaroa for carrying too many passengers. She is licensed to carry 40, and she had 80. The schooner Herald lost a man from aloft ■while in Cook's Strait. All efforts to save him by means of a life buoy and boat failed It is said that the Ministry are likely to DriDg in a new and liberal Patent law next session. The Waimate difficulty i 3 still in the same position. Mr Mackay is still discussing the whole question with Te Whiti, and the doubts as to Sir D. M'Lean's promises to the Katives are not yet cleared away, Parliament ifl further prorogued to the loth June, and ifc is expected it will be furtber prorogued till the 25th July as previously stated.

Tbe Customs receipts for the past -week were about £5000. Monday. It is stated that Mr Forward has accepted the appointment of District Judge and Resident Magistrate for Wellington offered him by the Government, conditionally on his being permitted to appear in the Supreme Court in certain important cases for which he has been retained. A man named Bell was yesterday arrested for being drunk iv St. Paul's Church. The New Zcalandcr in an article against colonial federation says :— " Colouial Governors in spite of the* theoretical view to the contrary are assuming more and more the right to an active and modifying control in the affairs of the colonies to which they are sent. The barque Clan Campbell arrived from London yesterday. The Times says that in spite of a certain degree of commercial depression here the labor market is but scantily supplied. Judge Thomas in a long letter to the Times reopens the question of " Ryotwarry," and argues that in all he has done he was actuated by pure and disinterested motives. He promises to put tho main points of the system before the public in a second letter, j Pout Chalmers, Monday. Arrived: Charles Forbes from New York, j 104 days out, with 960 tons of cargo, also ' the Hotspur from Hong Kong via Melbourne. Sailed on Sunday, Albion Company's ship Auckland for London with two passengers, 2558 bales of wool, 5532 sacks of wheat, 114 casks of tallow, a number of casks of skins, and 900 cases of meat valued at £62,123. The ship Westland with immigrants is at the Heads, all well. Christchukch, Monday. The Judge lo day would hear no argument re Pearson as to who should bear the blame of the failure of the Schwartz case. He said it was a matter for the Law Society to deal with. Acckl and, Monday. A son of the late Rev John Crossley, i formerly of Waikato. was charged with the larceny of a lady's coat at the Police Court to-day. He had been previously convicted of forgery. A meeting of the creditors of W. H. Farnail was held to-day. The liabilities are £32,000. Against tbis Farnall has put in as an asset a claim of £1500 agaiu3tthe Government.