INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 138, 11 June 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

fiHEIEBS A6ENOY.I Wellington, Tuesday night. lhe rumor is again revived that the Government will offer the Speakership of the Legislative Council to Sir William Fitzherbert, that Mr O'Rorke will succeed him J?!.. 0 Lower House, and Mr^Hamlin get the Chairmanship of Committees. Twenty-two recruits arrived to-day from Taranaki. Drilling at the Mount Cook barracks is active evejy day. Wednesday. Colonel Whitmore has telegraphed thanking Cbristchurch for its offer of a battery, but be did. not think it would be necessary to avail himself of it. At the Little River Bush a lunatic who had been hovering about for some days called at tlie house of Mrs Clarke which is in a lonely spot, and tried to cut her little boy's throat. Some surveyors who were working near rescued the boy and captured the lunatic on whom they found £2000. An effort is being made to float a Company named the Oamaru Crown Flour mills and Baking Company, with a capital of £50,000 in 10,000 shares. Mr Henry Howarth has accepted the Resident Magistracy of Dunedin It is denied that the Taranaki natives have seized Courtenay's hay as well as ploughed his land. A telegram received last night announces the death of Mr W. H. Harrison, late of the Grey River Argus. The schooner May, a regular trader between here and China, left Singapore for Wellington on the 3rd instant with a cargo of tea. Wangandi, Wednesday. A congratulatory address has been presented to Sir William Fox on his elevation to knighthood, signed by all the principal residents, Mr W. H. Watt in the chair. The address was presented by Mr Bryce, M.H.R. . , Donemn, Wednesday. Mining operations are suspended at Naseby and Bluespur, owing to the intense cold. It is denied that tbe Government has made any arrangement for filling Mr Bathgate's place on the Bench. Napier, Wednesday. In the Supreme Court to-day, McLennan'd case for wife murder was postponed till the December session. The counsel for the prisoner applied for a change in the venue in consequence of an alleged strong feeling against him at Napier, ,The Judge reserved his decision on that point.— The Grand Jury threw out the hill in the case of two Euro* peans charged with defrauding a Maori chief over two racehorses. Auckland, Wednesday. The boy Walker who wounded himself in the abdomen with a revolver is in a dying state. The Weymouth and Loch Dee have arrived. Judge Gillies, in granting his final discharge to a bankrupt, commented in sharp terms on the conduct of a solicitor who took money from the bankrupt to enable him to get through the Court, and then left him to I get on as best he could. J