INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 40, 16 February 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Press Association. 1 Cheistghtjkcii, Saturday night. Daring the months of February, March, and April, twenty of the New Zealand Shipping 'Company's vessels, of an aggregate tonnage of '23,250, tons are advertised to leave Lyttelton for London. The holding capacity is Btated at 100,000 tons, being equivalent to one million and a quarter bußhelQ of wheat. ■ - . -. . . Chiniquy's final lecture on the subject of Temperance was crowded last night. A little excitement was created at Kaiapoi yesterday by the discovery in an ' old office, once occupied by a merchant, of a crucifix, altar cloth, vases, and other church ornaments which were stolen from, the Episcb- . palian Church, two years ago during a warm controversy on High and Low Church, Ttye poJfee harp now charge of the articles,

• Last night Mr. W. N. Smith, later pbat- -' master at; Temuka, and recently transferred to Cbristchurch, was presented on behalf ;0f the inhabitants of Temuka with a handsomely illuminated address and purse of . sovereigns. • ] TiuNEDiN, Saturday night. Sailed: ship Wanganui for London with nine passengers and a cargo of the value of £168,904. The Auckland with ten passengers and a cargo worth £120,750, leaves to night. The recent prosecution against Captain Drew of the schooner Awarua for catching seals in the close season has fallen through owing to Mr Watt R.M., committing the defendant for trial instead of enforcing the penalties under the later "Interpretation Act." Monday. The nienibers of the Knox Church, by a majority of over too, voted in favor of the introduction of instrumental music, but as the necessary majority was not obtained, the matter lies in abeyance. The tender of Kincard and M'Queen for £4139 for the construction of a bridge for the Greymouth harbor' works is accepted. James Robertson, a young man, met with a suspicious death at Dumbarton Rock Hotel, four miles from Rosburgh, yesterday. A , number of men were harvesting and the landlord of the farm and four of the men commenced card playing. M'Lougblin and -Robertson quarrelled and during a scuffle .Robertson received a blow on the head causing instantaneous death;: It is supposed that the blow was inflicted with an iron bar..M'Loughlin has been arrested. There was a fire in the South Ward last night, when the premises of James Denny, a bootmaker, were gutted. The fire was caused by a kerosene lamp upsetting while the inmates were absent. The house was insured in the National Office for £450. The police have deemed it necessary to ' : make further enquiries into- the circum-( stances attending the death : of Mr and Mrs Hayes. ■•- ' j ' The dividends paid during the half -year ; ending January to the Shareholders in the .Mountain Race Goldmihing Company (Blue Duck) at Tinker's,, of whom there are 1 25; amounted to, £350 each. : Gunners Curie and Skardon of the Dunedin r Artillery hav ( e entered for the Nelson meeting. •-■' , ■* ' ■ ' 4 '* Wellington, Monday. I The following is a complete list of afrards 'to ' New Zealand Exhibitors of agricultural produce :— Wheat, Ist prize, Peter McGill, Tokomairiro ; 2nd, Loan and Mercantile , Agency Oamaru ; 3rd, P. Cunningham and . C 0.,. Christchurch ;, 4th, Holdaway 8r05... Richmond; Nelson • Oats (Tartarian), 2nd prize J. and 'lT. Meek, Oamaru, Otago ;-3ijd, E, O H., Dariks, Christchurch ; Oats, (shdrt black Tartarian variety) Ist prize J. and 3T. rMeet/.Oama'rii. . : Oats (Danish -variety) 2nd psrize, J; arid F. Meek Oamaru. - Oatsj (Long Tartarian variety), 3rd prize, Royse Steal and Co Dunedin. Barley, Ist prize, Harley and Sons, Nelson. Barley, (Malting), 2nd prize, P. Cunningham and Co. Christchurch ; 3rd prize, Loan and Mercantile Agency, . Oamaru. Grass seed (general collection), Ist prize, J. Dransfield, Wellington ; 2nd Duncan and Co., Christchurch ; 3rd, P Cunningham and Co., Christchurch. Grass seed (Rye grass) 2nd prize, Charles Hayncs, Palmerston, Otago ; 3rd, Capt W. Russell, Karamea, Napier. Hops : 2nd prize, Richard Andrew, Waimea West, Nelson; 3rd, T. H. Harley, Nelson. Malt ; 3rd prize, Surman and Co-, Invercargill. Bacon, Ist prize, McDonald and Miller, Green Island Otago ; 2nd, Edward Sheedy, Dunedin. Fish, Ist prize, Charles Blake and Sons, Picton. The Judges report that the New Zealand exhibits excel in oats and malting barley. Twenty-eight entries have been received here for the N.Z. Rifle Association meeting at Nelson, Dr Lemon has received a cablegram that there are two Irish Relief Funds, one with the Lord Mayor of Dublin at its head, and the other, the Duchess of Marlborough. . - Young Scott failed to do his walk of 7 miles in the hour by 49 second?. Bluff, Monday.; . The Union Company's new steamer Te Anau, Captain Carey, arrived here this morning at 2 o'clock. She left Melbourne at 3 p.m. on the 10th inst., and cleared the Heads at 5.40 p.m., arrived at Hobart Town at 10.15 a.m. on the 12th, left at 430 p.m., and arrived off the Solanders at 6.30 p.m. Slowed the engines till arrival. She experienced thick foggy weather the whole distance, which necessitated slowing the engines on several occasions. On Saturday she experienced a strong southerly breeze with heavy sea, in which she behaved admirably, proving herself to be a splendid sea boat. Passengers from Glasgow : for the Bluff : Misses Haste (3) ; for Dunedin : Mrs Lourie, Mr and Mrs Wales and family (2), Mrs Batchelor, Miss Blackwood, Messrs Campbell, McVicar, Milne, Paterson, Sinclair, McNair, Mrs Hatchell, Mr and Mrs ■Hipper and family (3), Mrs Edwards ;, for Wellington : Mr Fitzherbert ; for Auckland : Mrs Smith, Mrs Wright, Mr and Mrs Milne, Misses Emma, Harriet, Agnes, and Jessie Milne, and 23 through sceerage. Passenger for Nelson : Mtss McMilien.