INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 250, 1 November 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Invehcargill, Friday night. In the Mataura arson case, McLeddon and Duncan Cameron admitted setting fire to the building, acting on instructions from D. Mackay, a well-known contractor. It was shown that Mackay had purchased the buildin? for £20, and removed it for abont £30, and insured it for £275 on a two months' policy. The case was adjourned. Bail was applied for on behalf of Mackay, charged as an accessory, but was refused. Wellington', Friday. Robert Salisbury, recently from Kaikoura, was fonnd dead in his bed in the National Hotel this morning. He went to bed about nine last night, got up at half past six and had a drink and went to bed again, and when called for breakfast was found dead. In order to get at the tradesman who successfully contested his right to expose articles for sale on the footpath on the ground that his house stood back some teet from the street boundary, the Corporation have determined to call upon him to feuce that spare ground according to the regulations. The imports for last quarter were £2,474,638, and for the corresponding quarter of last year, £2,603,730. The exports last quarter were £690,888, and for the corresponding quarter of 1878 £882,295. The vital statistics for September are : — Birth 513, deaths 162. Dunedin gives the highest rate of mortality according to population, and Napier and the Thames the lowest. CiißisTcnuKCH, Saturday. The Corn Exchange reportß :— Wheat t prime milling, 4s 8d to 4a lOd, medium, 4s 6d to 4s Bd, chick, 3s 6d to 3s I0d; oats, no demand except for milling, prime 2s 4d to 2s 6d, feed 2s 2d to 2s 4d; barley, no enquiry, prime malting 59 to 5s 2d, medium 4s to 4s 9d; cheese, s£d; butter, 6d to Bd. Patea, Friday. . At the races to-day the Derby waa won by Liete (?), Ringleader 2. Flying Ha.ndicap : Queen of the Vale i, Rantwick 2, Otawa 3. Cop : Hailstorm 1, Lock Lomond 2, Rocket 3. Ladies Pdbse : Confident I. New Pltmodth, Saturday. The Hannah Mokau is still on the spit, and ia likely to remain till appliances arrive for getting her off. The cause of the stranding was the lightness of her trim rendering her unmanageable. Te Whiti's influence is still declining. The sickness at Parihaka and the non-release of the prisoners has caused many to lose faith in the prophet The opposition prophet ha 3 succeeded in getting thirteen of the prisoners' wives under his protection. FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE AT DUNEDIN Dunedijt, Friday night. At a fire at O'Brien'3 dairy in Great Kingstreet, a boy four years old and a girl aged three years were burnt to death. The Star and H raid refuse to publish the advertisements of the Loftus troupe.