INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue XIV, 2 July 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

ObBM AOBNOT.I Wellington, Tuesday night. ./^l 6 Government nave Welded to cause ,all the Taranaki native trespassers committed for trial to be sent to Wellington to be imprisoned till the Supreme Court sits. Two of the last batch being mere boys were released. Arrangements are being made that all ploughing parties shall be arrested as soon as they commence .operations. It is rumored that a desperate effort will be made to arrest Hiroki and Te Wbiti before Parliament opens. £3561 were paid for publicans licenses last week. The seamen on board the several coasting * steamers have struck against a reduction of wages, and others are yet to follow. It is hoped that amicable arrangements may yet be made between the employers and employed. . The Pates, left for Carlyle to-day with another detachment of Constabulary. In a Cabinet Council to-day nothing was deefded as to the additions to }he Minis- '•' It is stated that £2000 have been paid over : far fan of all demands in the celebrated Meurant case, which has been before Parliament vtace 1840,

Wednesday. Ihe Chrtmich contradicts a rumor which has been circulated to the effect that the split in the Cabinet was a pre-conceived idea on the part of Messrs Stout and Ballance, and also the statement that Mr Ballance had insulted Mr Fox, the Secretary to the Cabinet. The ironworkers before taking decided action will wait to see how the employers' proposals will effect them when put into practice. Robert Shearer was brought up this morning for brutally assaulting his paramour, Rebecca Steward. The woman was frightfully knocked about and the injuries received were so bad that she was unable to appear. Shearer was remanded for a week. # Auckland, Wednesday. Certain spiritualists waited on Mr Thorne the illusionist, challenging him to perform . Dr Slade's slate writing. Mr Thorne said his terms for private seancea were one guinea for five minutes.