INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 159, 5 July 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

fPBRSS AOBSOT.I ,1 WsjcuHGTos, Friday night. 4 detchment of Constabulary juat went on board the Hinemoa which leaves at three o'clock Each man had a pair of handcuffs on bis rifle. Mr James Mackay has been appointed Government agent pn the West Coast, at a salary said to, be £700 per annum. The,i 7 df* believes the remaining portfolio In the Ministry will U offered to Mr Oliver ofDunedih. New insolvent, J. A. Williams of Taita, licensed Victualler. * Fifty-three political ploughmen is the number the Hinemoa will bring Dack from Taran^ki, ;* IJhe, Native Minister received a telegram from Ha^era, stating that seven Maoris pl<WghlDg were arrested by an unarmed two-tfozen. of ConsfiabuTary, but they were protected by a covering party. They are to be taken to Patea to-night, and, if committed for triatariftbp sent to Wellington. It has been decided that all Natives in custody, except 17 arrested near New Plymouth, will be tried at Wellington. AIJ along the Coast the Constabulary and settlers are in a good position for any eventuality. . . «v mu -,- , ChM9T chtoch, Saturday. sere5 ere IL httle cn "ge »n the produce market. Wheats* 4d to 3s $>d; flour unaltered; butter is in demand. The reported loss of the B. L. with a cargo of California,, barley caused a move in the market and prices are unsettled; holders ask 5s 9d to 6sgood samples of oatmeal are reduced £1 per ton; potatoes unchanged at £3 15s to £4 5 - 8---butter 9d to 10d; cheese, several parcels changed Inrads at 5d to 5Jd, in fair demand; hams bare lod in cloth lOJd; bacon bare 7id, In cloth Bd. **«_ «,. AoCTXAWD ' Fri day n»Bht. At the Police Court to day David Honitz aod Thomas Yaugban were charged with a breach of the Municipal Police Act by being Interested in a lottery for which they sold tickets. The Sergt. Major of Police deposed to purchasing a ticket for which he received a price. , Constable Kelly corroborated; he drew a wax doll as a prize. The Magistrate onuld not see how the defendants were Jntej^Ud as they gave a pipe worth la 6d for Is. There evidently were no blanks and no oompetition. The cage yiu diimissed.