INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 230, 9 October 1879, Page 2

INTER PROVINCIAL.

fPKKSS AOENOr.I Wellington, Wednesday night. There is no trace yet of the three missing Greek sailors. The new Ministry wers swora in at 5 -30 «od took possession of the offices, the other Ministers having left. Thursday. There is no longer any doubt as to Sir G. Qkj baring resigned the leadership of the

party, and, shonld they again obtain power, he will not bold a portfolio, though exercising his personal influence. Wm. Matbeson for robbing a lodger at Barretts Hotel, was seutenced to 18 months on two charges. The jury were five hours locked up over his case. The net of the missing fishermen has been found Dear the Heads, and there are no longer any doubts that the men are drowned. Mr Cox, tJe Government Geologist, has forwarded to the Colonial Secretary a report regarding the Wairarapa auriferous reefs, the principal points in which are that there is an abundance of quartz iv the locality, there being several outcrops of quartz, though no gold is visible in any of the specimeus. A couple of samples of stone were taken from the centre aud one side of the reef, care being taken to provide agaiust fraud in the shipe of "salting" or "prepared specimeus," and these were assayed at the laboratory with the result that one sample yielded at the rate of 14dwts I grain and the other 12 dwts I grain to the ton. The quartz is rubbly not difficult to work. Quaru taken from the other reefs in the neighborhood was also tested, and one sample gave at the rate of * Iwts to the ton. The gold is so fine in the stone that it cannot be detected even with a magnifying glass. The prospectors not having the means to erect machinery have suggested that the Govern ment should advance £500 for that purpose, and in the event of it turning out well that a £5000 reward should be paid for the dis covery of a payable find, the money to be deducted. Mr George Thomas reports :— Flour, Ade Jaide, £15 to £15 10s ; Colonial. £13 to £13 10s ; oats, 2s 9d ; bran, 9d ; wheat, fowls, 4s 6d, scarce ; maize, 4s to 4s 3d ; pollard,' £6 63 ; potatoes, per ton, £6 10s ; bacon, 9d; hams, lOd ; cheese, 8d ; butter, Is ; oatmeal, £15 109. Gisbohxe, Wednesday night. Mr Lawrence, the accountant io Mr Read's estate, has been served with three writs by Mr Rees, solicitor, to recover £11, 004 for conspiracy and defamation of character. Mr Robert Cooper was aiso served with a writ by Mr Rees for £2000 for defamation of character and conspiracy, and Mr Rees has issued another writ against J. S. Macfarlane and E. F. Ward for similar charges. Christchcrch, Thursday. At the inquest on S. G. Baldwin, who was found dying in a paddock in Heathcote Valley, a verdict was given that deceased died from congestion of the lungs brought on by intemperate habits and exposure. The deceased was an " allowance mau " sent out from England. He had spent his allowance and mortgaged what was to come Patea, Thursday. Forty six natives have died at Paritiaka during the last fortnight, and there are still from sixty to seventy more prostrated with dangerous fever. The natives are calling upon Te Whiti to restore the dead to life again.