INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 110, 9 May 1879, Page 2

INTER PROVINCIAL.

fpRESS AGENOr.I Wellington, Friday. There have been fourteen filings of bankruptcy and 44 actions have been commenced under the " Summary Proceeding in Bills Act " within the last two weeks. Pour meetings of creditors are notified for to-day. Wellington will send a 3culler to Sydney, and it is expected that an effort will be made to send a crew. The Chronicle commends the judicial changes to be made on the West Coast. Dodsworth and Fitcher> bakers> having been missing for some days, tt is concluded that they have decamped, being in financial difficulties. * In the case of McDowell v. Leech where £50 was sought to be recovered by the plaintiff as the value of a horse killed by the defendant's cart, the Magistrate gave a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the accident could not have occurred if the plaintiff had been riding on his right side of the road. Mr Crombie, a Hansard reporter and at present Secretary to the Minister for Education, is appointed, and will shortly cuter upon the duties of, Deputy Commissioner of the Land Tax for Wellington. Guthrie and Larnach being about to close their premises in Wellington, the schooner Maggie Patterson has been chartered by them to carry their stock to Dunedin. Mr George Thomas reports flour, Adelaide, £14 10s to £15; Colonial, £10 to £10 10s; oats, 3s Id to 3s 3d; bran, Is4d; wheat, 4s; ham, 9d; bacon, B|d; cheese, 6d; maize, 5s 3d; pollard; £7; potatoes, £5; butter, Is. Trade is exceedingly depressed with little busioess doing. The swearing in of Mr Stout as a Minister of the Executive is gazetted. Robert Kirton, of Nelson, is gazetted Registrar of Marriages, also Andrew Turnbull to be Sheriff of Nelson; C. Broad to be R.M. tor Hokitika and Greymouth; Matthew Price to be R.M. for the Distnct of Nelson South- West Goldfields; W. H. ;Revell to be R.M. for the District of Nelson, with £100 jurisdiction. TheHon Mr Stout arrived to-day from South, and Col. Whitmore from Napier and Poverty Bay. The Hinemoa is expected to leave for Auckland this evening. In the Supreme Court this morning the Chief Justice delivered judgment in the case of McNamara v. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company, and after stating the facts, he said be could not agree with Mr Bunny's argument that the policy contained three distinct contracts, as the premium was undivided. It was. not as though the property insured wad two distinct buildings. He therefore made the rule absolute on that grouud and ordered judgment to be entered for the defendants with coßts. His Excellency arrived this morning. It is stated in commercial circles that since the commencement of the current year orders sent home for goods to the value of a million sterling have been countermanded by cable messages. The solicitors of Wellington have appointed a Committee to make representations to the Minister for Justice in legard to the conduct of business in the courts here. Blenheim, Friday. Two important deferred sheep cases were decided to-day. Green, for driving sheep across a run without notice was fined £2 13s and Iss 9d costs. Thomas Carter, for driving rams from one infected district into another without a clean certificate was fined in the minimum penalty of £10 and coata £8, this being the first case under the Act. Defendant did not appear. Gbahamstown, Friday. The Harbor Board last night granted two acres on the foreshore to Price Bros., who propose commencing the iron ship building industry here. The County Council are sanguine that every difficulty respecting snagging the Waihou river will be settled satisfactorily. The Thames Natives refused to accept Tawhiao's invitation to the Kopua meeting, as they are content to live under the Queen'a rule and believe in the policy of the present Government.