INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 26, 30 January 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

w : _. [Pkbss Association. j Wellington, Thursday night. - The coach from Palmerston North io : , Napier this morning met with an accident at > Stoney Creek, four miles from Palmerston. .; The coach upset, and Commissioner Booth, /- a passenger, was so much hurt that he had :; to be left behind. The other passengers > escaped with slight bruises, and after a few - hours delay proceeded on the journey in a ;• .fresh coach. The accident was occasioned f .by the horses shying at a tent pitched in the -road,- ■'..■''

Friday. Messrs Blundell Brothers, 'proprietors of the Evening Post,-' forwarded to-day a first instalment of £200 in aid of the Irish Distress Fund. The National Bank cabled the money home free of all charge. Mr O'Shea reports:— Flour, Adelaide. £17 to £17 10s; Canterbury, £11 10s t9 £12; Oamaru, £12; sharps, £5 10s; bran, 10d; oats, Is 8d to Is lOd; potatoes, £5 10s to £6; maize, 4s ; hams and bacon, 10-Jd to lid in cloth. . Five per cent New Zealand Loan 103^. Dunedin, Friday. James Benton, a fisherman, was drowned through over-balancing himself from his boat when she missed stays Alexandria has subscribed £92 towards the famine fund. . The result of Colonel Scratchley's inspection of the harbor and coast will be that of six big guns now in store here,-two will be placed at Richardson's Point near the Heads, two at Sawyer's Head, and two at Look Out Point to guard the approach to Dunedin from Ocean beach. By a fire at the Dalvey station, Tapanui, the Victorian office losses £450. Mr Sheath, the owner, estimates the total loss at £800. Wangandi, Friday. '„ The Wanganui regatta is fixed" for the 10th March. : The programme will include a Maiden i ace, for unrigged boats, £6 ; chain--pion whale boat race. £12 and £4; junior outrigger race £7 and £3; -scullers £5; senior inrigged £20 and £10; canoe race £3; j unior inrigged £7 and £3; senior outrigged £5 in plate; volunteer whale boat race~£lo. Ckristchubch, Friday. _ The race jhorses Te Whetu, Foul Play, Numa, and Vampire, went to Wellington in the Botomahana yesterday. Some/valuable Lincoln rams and ewes were also shipped by her for Napier. Messrs Trent and Foster, the Linconshire delegates, visited a number of farms yesterday in the Leeston, Southbridge, and Lincoln Districts. .• The swagmen in the northern districts are complaining that the reaping and binding machines are doing them out of work. Large numbers are going about unable to obtain employment. x Napibb, Friday. The Telegraph operators here who -went out on strike have been fined £3 each. The Corporation have agreed to pay £9 10s per lamp for one year to the Gas Company. The Company have promised substantial reductions' in the price of gas to private consumers. . Their report ahews a profit for the half year of nearly 20 per cent Adividend of £1 per share has been declared, the money to be devoted to making the shares fully paid up. Oamaetx, Friday. The calcined remains of a man named William King were found in the ' debriß of the fire in Thames-street this morning. It was reported to the police yesterday that the man, who was well known about town, was missing, and as the police could ,find no trace of him a regular search was made amongst the remains of fire. Deceased was known to have been in the building adjoining the place when the fire ste.rted, and to have rushed away when the alarm was given, as he had between, £200 and £300 worth of tools and other property in his room in the hotel. It is supposed that he went into the building for the purpose of trying to save his property, and thatjhe either was suffocated with smoke or lost Mb way in trying to get out. There is no doubt as to his identity, as the number of the watch found with th« remains corresponds with the number given by a friend as that of the watch belonging to King, who was a carpenter and a steady man. iNVEncARGiLt, Friday. William Fuchs of the s.s. Oreti was stabbed in the left arm yesterday by a man named Robert Arnold, to whom he refused a ticket on the ground that he was intoxicated. The wound, although severe, is not dangerous. Arnold was brought up at the Police Court and committed for trial.