INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 34, 9 February 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Press Association.] ! Haweba, Monday. The Constabulary here have finished about a mile of road to the westward of the camp. Mr Chiel, who bas charge of the survey, is working just suffidcotiy ahead of the Constabulary us to be within range of the rifles of the covering party, as it is neither considered safe to detach small parties of Constabulary nor to allow the survey of the road to be carried oo by Mr Chiel without protection. The natives are constantly coming to the outskirts of the camp with peaches for

sale. Terani has signified his intention of i uiaking another donation of food when the Constabulary reach his settlement at Otakehe, LTTrE_,_oN, Saturday nigbt. Sailed— Waitara, ship, for fcondoh. , The case of scarlatina on board the British Empire at the quarahtihe station is a very mild caee, fend there is no further outbreak. The ship is being fumigated, and will come up at the middle of the week. The paßsfengers will not laud for etg _fc days. The GoVetbment insurance of .£SOO on the lif_ of a Waikato settler haa been paid a' though he had only paid one premium conditionally on (he acceptance of bis life, and died before the completion of the insurance. An engine ran for the first time on the Helensville ratlwajr to the Kaipara terminus. Wellington, Monday. Scott continued his 24 hours walking match on Saturday and at 9.55 p.m, five minutes before the time was up he had covered 108 miles, thus losing by four miles. Great interest was taken in the event, and at the conclusion Scott was loudly cheered. About 4000 paid for admission, and £15 was subscribed in the Hall for the purpose of presenting Scott with a testimonial. The body of Charles Cochrane, who was drowned in the harbor last week, was found on the beach at Kaiwarra this morning. The police called at the principal hotels on Saturday night at eleven o'clock and ordered the barmaids to leave the bar. This action has been taken in compliance witb the " Employment of Females Act." Grahamstown, Monday. Sir George Grey addressed the electors of the Thames on Saturday night. About 2000 were present, and at tbe conclusion of his speech a vote of thanks was carried enthusiastically. New Plymouth, Monday. A three roomed house belonging to James Leece. which was used to store grass seed, situated about five miles this side of Inglewood, was burnt to the ground on Saturday aud also a stack of wheat. The grass seed and stack were insured in the Transatlantic for £250. Christchurch, Monday. A man named William McMillan, a railway gatekeeper at Kaiapoi, was found on Saturday nigbt in his house with bis throat cut. and in a very weak condition from loss of blood. He was attended by a medical man, and brought to the Christchurch Hospital yesterday. Though m a critical state there is a great probability of his recovering. McMillan admitted having inflicted the wound on himself, saying that he was induced to do it through family trouble. A married woman named Mrs I. Johnson, residing in Xi! more street, was badly burnt one night las . week through a kerosene lamp exploding. Mrs Johnso_ was preparing to go to bed, and bad turned down the wick low previous to blowing it, out'iwhen the explosion took place, and in an instrnt her clothes caught fire, and her husband had great difficulty in putting the flames out, and did not succeed before the woman was blistered all over. Mrs Johnson is now in the hospital. It was reported at Kaiapoi that a man was drowned near Waikari yesterday, but no further particulars are yet to hand. Last night the comet was distinctly seen. It has shifted a little to the southward and is about 40 degrees above the horizon with the tail remarkably well defined. McGrath's men employed on the northern extension aud Little River railway bave, unsolicited, contributed over £54 to the Irish relief fund. Dunedin, Monday. Volunteer Dalziel will be. the Waikari Company's representative at Nelson. Volunteer A Marshall of North Dunedin will be an extra representative, and Sergt. Cox for the South District. The body of a fisherman named Benten who was drowned in the Lower Harbor twelve days ago was found yesterday.— Jiggers' Company !__._ boon prospecting in the JifiiixhhQ rhnn, l- nf ~ Hnlvoraen's ciaim at - iiyao and struck go_d gold. Gisborne, Monday. An unusual case is occupying the attention of the R.M. Court to-day. For the past three weeks the female population of Gisborne have been thrown into a state of terror every night by a nocturnal visitor, who paid his calls about midnight to residences occupied by single women, widows, or women whose husbands were away from home. The description of the midnight marauder as given by the women differed in many respects except one, which was that he wore a white helmet hat. On Saturday a man named Mahon, answering the description, a mulatto, who i* said to have been engaged on trial on the Herald, was arrested, and the Court is occupied to day in hearing the cvi dence of a number of female witnesses. Invercargil. , M >.iday. Several cases of diptheria are reported. The Home of Peace Good Templar Lodge, at a meeting on Friday, passed a resolution refusing to pay the capitation dues to the Grand Lodge, on the ground of not receiving commensurate benefits. The Lodge then dissolved, and an open meeting was subsequenily held, at which it was decided to form a new organisation called the » Appleby Temperance Association." Several speakers expressed the opinioa that the Good Templar constitution and ritual were capable of great improvement. This is probably the first secession from the ranks of the Order that ha_ occurred in tbe colony. The Rev. C. E. Ward, Primitive Methodist, is reported in the course of bis sermon last night to have said that circus performances in too many cases were stepping stones to vice degradation, and hell.