INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 131, 3 June 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

m • " f>RESB AGENOr/j i ■ \ m. Wellington^ Monday night. « i?. c Attorney-General and Minister for Public Works went South iv the Arawata to-day.

' The Governor, Premier, and Colonial becretary are expected back at Wellington on Wednesdaj'. Tuesday. it lias been arrauged regarding the money and diamond rings found on Gleich, the Adelaide defaulter, that they shall be deposited in one of the Banks pending a civil action to decide whether Gleich or the creditors shall get the property. After a loag and animated discussion, the shareholders in the West Wanganui Coal Company resolved to stop nil operations forthwith. Mr J. B. George, who had been asked to report upon the mine calculated that the coal they had sold at 32s per too had co9t 655, and showed that the operations generally were futile and the mismanagement great. The City Council will at their next meeting discuss the advisableness of refusing to consider any informal tenders. The Government have a quantity of ammunition on board the ship Pleione, now about two months out; also two locomotives. The Easby v. Anderson and Anderson v. Easby assault cases have been arranged. On the case being re-opened before theR.M. this morning it was stated that the lapse of time since the assault was committed had enabled amicable arrangements to be effected between the parties. Anderson withdrew his charge on the understanding that when the case against him came on in the Supreme Court the prosecutor would not press the case. It was deemed unnecessary to bind over the witnesses. All parties then left the Court and it is thought probable that nothing further will be heard of the case. During the quarterly licensing meeting today it transpired that during the last twelve months 256 persons had been arrested charged with drunkenness before ten at night, and 157 after that hour. There are 31 hotels in the city holding night licenses. New Plymouth, Monday night. A crowded meeting to-day decided to press upon the Government the duty of putting the whole of the threatened districts in a state of defence, and of stationing and maintaining in most suitable positions a moveable force sufficient to show the disaffected natives that their own settlements can be at once destroyed if they commit acts of violence. m._ ♦" Tuesday. There is considerable excitement in town to-day, and an Executive Council is to be called, after which the Governor and Ministers will leave for Wellington. Te Whiti prophesied that the Governor would visit the ploughed land, but that nothing would come of it, and that all the Europeans would be carted from the confiscated land into New Plymouth by the Maoris, after which an earthquake would come and destroy all the people in town. Nearly all the natives in the district are at Parihaka. Forty men for the Mounted Volunteers have enrolled. The Governor visited the land ploughed by the natives,^ The Governor and Ministers leave at four o'clock for Wellington. Port Chalmers, Monday night. Sailed: Albion Company's ship Lyttelton for London, with a cargo of wool and wheat, valued at £25,000. Auckland, Tuesday. At the Auckland Inatitute last night Rewi said that he bad coal and iron on his land which he would sell to the Europeans whenever they wished to buy. He visits the German man-of-war to day.