INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 189, 9 August 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PHESS AOENOr.I Wellington, Friday night. Four of the Maori prisoners had a narrow escape of being poisoned, but the doctor gave them emetics, and they recovered. Mr Robert Cooper who was tried for a breach of the Arms Act, intends standing for the district. Mr C. Johnston, brother of the present member for Manawatu, is announced as •Bother candidate for Wellington. It is understood that the Speaker will ask the House to give the clerks, messengers, &c., who came specially to Wellington for the ■M&ion half -pay during the recess. William Smith, for stealing money and jewellery from Edgar's Commercial Hotel, was sentenced to three months' hard labor. The Pott calls attention to the difference of the amount of assessment on the island of Kawau and the island of Mana, and which is ▼cry much in favor of the former. The Patea this evening takes to Patea, 500 stands of arms and fifty cases of ammunition. . Saturday. Replying to Dr. Henry to-day, the Premier ■aid a polling place would be appointed at the Karamea.for the forthcoming election. Telegraph advices were received from London yesterday announcing that at the annual meeting of the National Bank of New Zealand, held this week, a dividend of six per cent was declared, and XI 0,000 placed to the reserve fund. A report was circulated yesterday that four Maori prisoners were nearly poisoned accidentally, bat the report originated out of MTeral Maoris in good health taking the medicine intended for sick Maoris.