INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 236, 16 October 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[tRKSB AGE!>'or.l Gisjsok.vk, Wednesday, Some 40 natives advised by Te Manihera, a native chief auJ assessor of Wairarapa district, went ou to Mr Arthur's run at Tokomaru, and drove his sheep off the run, cansing the loss of about 600 lambs. They threaten to take possession of his homestead, and al6o of several other ruus on the Kast Coast, and also a block of land the Government purchased, called Taupaharepare. Tbe natives say they are acting under the advice of Mr llees. Natise matters in Poverty Bay look very serious aud if the Government do not take steps to put thingg on a better Sooting every run ou the East Coast will be taken possession of by the Maoris. Wellington, Thursday. Ifr G. Thorns* reports-.— Flour, Adelaide, £15 103 to£lG; Colonial, £2S 10S; oats 2s 8d; fa ran 3d; wheat, fowl, 4a 61; maize 4s 3d; pollard £6; potatoes, per ton, £7$ bacon 'Jd; hams lOd; cheese 8d; butter Is; oatcw*; £15 10s. The Government hold a meeting of their supporters to-day with the view of seeing it some compromise betweeu tbe Government and the Opposition cannot beeoine to. Carl Ptters was charged at the instance of the Law Society with preparing a bill of sale and a fee for the same. The defendant pleaded that the proceedings were informal, saying that tbe offence was committed on the 10th April, and the inforqiation was only laid on the 10th October. The proceedings, therefore, were a day too late. The i/agistrate held that the objection was fatal. The repairing steamer Agnes has arriyed and the cable is being taken out of the tanks which contain five miles of wire. The Agnes will take all on board An Opposition meeting to-day discussed the advisableneas of refusing all supplies, in order to compel the Goveanment to face the tie-confidence motion.

Dr. Lemon tested the cable to-day and found the insulation rather better than when placed io the tanks in 1875. Auckland, Wednesday night. A person named Sheridan Carlisle Hall has been committed for trial for obtaining £40 1 worth of goods under false pretences from Mr Coulton of the Albert Hotel. The prisoner represented that he was expecting money from Dunedin, and the officers of the Department were called to prove that he had altered a telegram to give color to the belief that money was coming to him. The prisoner had lived luxuriously at the hotel, frequently inviting friends to supper and had run up a bill for £43 in five weeks. The Rotomahana made an excursion round the harbor with citizens. A preliminary meeting resolved to telegraph to the Government to detain the Captain and mate of the Minister of Marine for a full enquiry and to prevent sailors from being put on board the ship. Thursday. The Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution to the effect that the representatives of the Provincial district should insist upon the great financial injustice inflicted upon Auckland by the manner in which the past loans for public works and immigration have been expended, being at least partially removed by a proper sum being placed on the for the prosecution of public works, such sum if not expended within the financial year to be reserved solely for such works, and that the representatives be urgently requested to use all their influence at the present crisis to obtain justice for their constituencies before pledging themselves to support any Ministry. They also passed resolutions aflirming the necessity for encouraging manufacturing industries, and imposing protective duties, and that a Commission be appointed to collect evidence and revise the tariff, with a view of increasing or imposing duties on every article which can be produced in the colony ; that actiou in this direction should be very urgent, on account of the alarming and increasing difference between the exports and imports ; and that the present time ia an opportune one for imposing protective duties, and consequently procuring a direct increase of the revenue. Gkaiiamstown, Thursday. A large number of natives are employed in clearing ground for the railway between Kaneranga and Kerikeri. The natives m the neighborhood of Te Aroha are putting in their crops as usual. Blenheim, Thursday. Private advices state that at Flat Creek near Havelock there are twenty-three men all gettiug payable gold. The gold is rough, and some pieces are as large as hazel nuts.