INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 270, 25 November 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

. ■ I [PRESS AOEMOT.I Th« M u. WE f ra6T O», Monday night. The C»We repairing steamer Agnes leaves tor Sydney on Wednesday next , and wHI 2bll Isfahan and New Zealand John Willhoft, brought up on remand charged with stealing £29 andVrioua 7<Ss 2!rL°f £ £15; holdings fetched from £3 to £4 ios per acre. The damage to the steamer ToTthich •truck on a rock in Lyell', Bay on Sunday is more serious than was anticipated The revStSisr^ 1 about ten days and coat The Chamber of Commerce appointed a deputation to wait upon the Government to Sppirt n ° Uty bp plftCed on «" ■ A^djprtiittoii oouistiajr of the Mayor of SfiKSKi^ MeBBra Sheeha ° and B^He, waited this morning upon Mr WhiS£SJf % 8a ? th4t thC GoTe ">™e D t no Intention of stopping the railway; the only SSTSIZ that *?r Dey - He' B aidtha^ loan asked for for two years afterwards. ti,* a i- x. Auckland, Tuesday. «ri?v Acclim *t'zatwn Society have liberated Up^wSkaS atm the M » n «» wh ««»'er, Mr Tole, Commissioner of Crown Lands X£iXJ ero £ the member for Eden « d «d yesterday, after a short illness. tt-ii tt B 7 Pl ™odth, Tuesday. Hill, a Hospital steward, has been committed for trial on a charge of committing •n indecent assault on a female patient The. hearing of the case occupied three days. The accused reserved his defence. imd was admitted to bail, himself in £500, ■nd two sureties in £250 each. He was formerly Hospital Sergeant to the 67th Begiment, was In the Crimean war, and was In good circumstances and much respected. She proKCUtrix is a German immigrant, aDd was taken to the Hospital in a state of exluMHttion consequent on giving birth to a CbUd and on WAUt of care |n her confinement.

•^ Abhbukton, Tuesday. Two twin children have beeu found dead I» their btd. They slept in a cot, and before being put to bed they were fed on milk and bread, and to one of them some aniseed was given as niedieine. Four hours later, when the mother looked at them, they were both dead. It is uncertain whether they were suffocated or poisoned, and the stomachs have beeu sent to Christchurch for analysis. Dunedin, Tuesday. Mary Kum, charged with stftbbfng her husband with a rnftof, has been acquitted, the prosecutor, a Chiuaninn, having admitted that he inflicted the wounds on himself while in a fit of jealousy. The Cup weights cause great dissatisfaction. It is stated that the Governor has purchased Cnokebore, as he is goiug to keep racing stock.