INTERROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 22, 26 January 1880, Page 2

INTERRO V I NCIAL.

, ~. [Peess Association. J * Wellington, Monday. At' St. Paul's Church yesterday morning, the Rev. Mr Harvey hoped that no members _ of the congregation would accord to Pastor Chiniquy the slightest countenance. s , At the Supreme Court on Saturday a rule nisi, was granted calling upon Mr W. L. Bees to show cause why he should not pay the sum of £1177 now in his hands belonging to Tareha Maananna. Oamaru, Saturday night. . About £100 has already been subscribed for the Irish Famine Relief Fund, though the town has not yet been canvassed. A email stall in the principal street to-day up ■ to noon collected over £10 from the pedes- , trians. A regular canvass takes' place next week. Opunake, Saturday night. The Native Minister, attended by Colonel Roberts, and Major Noakes, left Hawera at 10-15, and arrived at Opunake at 2-15. The Stella has just left, after landing 73 A.C.'s, and 20 tons of cargo. . Everything indicates . an immediate forward movement of the ConBtabulary. Major Brown is "on the Waimate Plains interviewing the peoDle of Tiioko . Warn. Nobmanby, Mouday. • The Native Minister and party arrived at Waihi from Opunake soon after 11 o'clock yesterday, and. after staying at the statioa proceeded to Hawera, via Norraanby. Active preparations are being made at Waihi station for a movement on the Waimate Plains today. ' A site has been chosen for a redoubt to be immediately erected on the plain, at Kaipuni stream it is thought. Christchurch, Monday. Messrs Grant and Farmer, the Lincolnshire , ; delegates, arrived here on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by the Rev. J. Berry. They were met by the President of the J Agricultural Pastoral Association, who will J accompany them on visits to-the different districts in Canterbury, They will be pro-

sent today at the competition of reapers and binders for the Agricultural Association's prize. The result of Colonel Scratchley's inspection of the Lyttelton harbor, is that recomjnendations will be made to the Governtnert to have four more big guns erected, in addition to the four already here. A run out was made in one of the small steam launches plying in the harbor, to judge of their adaptibility for a torpedo service, and it is probable that the Government will be asked to obtain five or six small vessels for torpedo boats. At the gates of the Catholic Church yesterday over £200 was collected in aid of the Irish Famine Relief Fund. A meeting was held in the school-room after mid-day mass and resolutions carried promising to give every assistance to the general committee appointed recently at a public meeting for raising funds. Auckland, Monday. The schooner Minnehaha, owned by McKenzie and Bigelow, has been wrecked in Harvey's Group, South Sea Islands, and all her valuable cargo lost. The Captain and crew wore saved. She wa3 insured for £3000 iv a floating policy on the cargo aud vessel. A remarkable discovery has been made the Moagonui near Karakara. On the sandhills being blown away by the recent gales, a great heap of bones and the remains of a house were uncovered. The" natives know nothing of it, and have no traces of a settlement or burial place there. It is believed that further examination will show that they are the remaiua of a race inhabiting New Zealand prior to the immigration of the Maoris. Lyttelton, Monday. Arrived— Ship Pleiades from London, 83 days. out. She has 114 passengers, all well. Wanganui, Monday. A man named Thomas Trice has disappeared. His clothes were found near the Virginia Lake, and it is feared that he has committed suicide. The lake has been dragged, but,: owing to its depth and the 1 inequalities 6i the bottom, without success so far. Trice was formerly landlord of the White Hart Hotel, at Marton, but failed, and has been depressed in spirits ever since. Dtjnedin, Monday. The collection at St. Joseph's Cathedral yesterday in aid of the Irish relief fund realised £92. The action Melldram v. Prpudfoot, in which .£IOOO damages is claimed for the death of Melldrum, a carter, through a tramway accident in October last is proceeding in the Supreme Court. Col. Scratcbley went round to White Island off Ocean Beach where he took soundings and inspected the neighborhood of the Heads for sites for batteries.