INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 140, 13 June 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

ORBSB AGEMJT.I Wslx_n<jton, Thursday night. Mrs Phillips, who was re-arrested for arson, was allowed bail in two sureties of £250 each, and her brother Rush, for perjury, himself in £100, and two sureties of £50 each. A fire escape for the Wellington Fire Police has been shipped. The water shed of the Wainniomata is to be reserved from sale. An enquiry has been held at Kaikoura re the loss of tbe Shepherdess, which was solely attributable to the defectiveness of tho Government moorings, which have been condemned. Friday. Mr George Thomas reports flour, Adeaide, £13 10s to £14, colonial £9 10s to £10;, bran, lOd to la, no sale; wheat, 4s; maize 4s 6_; hams, 9£d; bacon, BJd,in good demand; cheese, 8d; pollard, £6 15s to £7; potatoes,£s; butter, lid to Is; ryegrass seed, 6a. It ia staled that a capitalist, lately arrived in Wellington from San Francisco, is taking preliminary steps for starting a tobacco and cigar manufactory on a large scale. The New Zealander has reliable information that the Government intends proceeding with the West Coast railway without The City Exhibition Committee have resolved to send photographic views of Wellington and its environs, and public buildings to the Sydney Exhibition. Over 150 recently recruited Armed Conare now at the Mount Cook Barracks ready to be sent to the West Coast Fifty more recruits are coming in the Lady Bird from Napier. J The City Council have again refused to take joint action with the Chamber of Commerce respecting the formation of a Harbor Board. The Corporation will petition the Governor under the 250 th section of the Municipal Corporations Act, for 2000 acres of land in the Forty Mile bush, and also for a piece of she reclaimed land. In tbe Resident Magistrate's Court, in the case of Mrs Phillips, charged with arson and P«fjnry, some startling evidence was taken this morning. Lizzie Jane Mellam stated that on the night of the 10thMay,Rush was '-5?. -"A O.. fc^Pwlor oi the Albion Hotel at the Hutt, while in tho evidence previously taken it appeared that he was in Wellington. Bush had been courting her,

and wanted her at first to marry him secretly, and then asked her to go into Wellington fu ._ married - At the time be told her that Mrs Phillips was the woman the station master saw in the train, he said:—" Lizzie, I tell you this with the view of your being my wife." She said " Oh, why did not you tell me this before?" and he replied, " She is our sister, and had we not every right to protect her all we could." She asked how Mrs Phillips had returned home, and he said, "by the back lanes." He also said his father assisted Phillips several times with money, but could do so (no more The girl fainted directly she left the box, The case is now continuing. Sir W. Fitzherhert's resignation of the Speakership will not be gazetted for several days, as a Commission ba3 to be appointed to whom to band his resignation as Speaker and member. The Government are using every endeavor to induce Dr. Buller to stand in their interest for the Hutfc, as Mr Jackson, while approving of the Government principles, ia opposed to the Government personally. Mrs Phillip's arson case is adjourned till to-morrow. CimiSTCHuncH, Thursday night. A meeting of the unemployed was held at Ashburton this afternoon, when a good many were present, including the Mayor. It was resolved that the Mayor should urge the Government to commence tho Mount Soiners railway, and endeavor to get the local bodies to do something to provide work. New Pltmouth, Friday. Mr Rees, of Taranaki, has been appointed Engineer for the Harbor Board. Donedin, Friday. The Harbor Board has resolved to procure a twin screw hopper dredge from Home, capable of dredging tbe exposed bar between eight and 30 feet, and lifting not less than about 400 toons per hour of free stuff. The total contributed to the Kaitangata relief fund amounted to £15,000 of which Otago contributed £10,000. False coins are in circulation. Auckland, Friday. It is reported that a gold-bearing reef has been discovered at Pakin, off Cape Rodney, on Government land, which is now withdrawn from selection.