INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 41, 17 February 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Pbebb Association. | Welldtotpn, Taeßday. The police hare laid informations against Kirkcaldie and Staines, drapers; Gbarles Hill, hatter; Cogan, tailor; and Mrs De Lauree, dressmaker; for violating the " Employment of Females Afct." The amalgamation of the morning papers takes place to-day, and the A^u? Zcalander ceases publishing after this morning. At the enquiry as to the recent fire at Pevereox'a the jury found a verdict of .arson

against some person or persona unknown, and added a rider censuring the Insurance Company for over insuring the building. Christchur<oh, Monday. Yesterday was by far the hottest day this season. - At two p.m. the thermometer registered 108 in the sun, and 90 in the sbade. A twenty-four hours' walking match for £25 a side has been arranged between W. Pentecost and C. Swan. The match will commence on Friday, March sth, and be walked in the Oddfellows' Hall. At a meeting of the Wanderers Cricket Club on Saturday evening it was decided to send a team to Dunedm at Easter. One of Canterbury's bldest residents, Mr G. Bay, died two days ago at Sumner, aged 85 years. Mr Day arrived at Wellington in 1841, and nine years afterwards came to Lyttelton, taking up bis residence at Sumner, where he bas lived ever since. Tuesday At a lecture given last night in the Oddfellows' Hall, Mr Mosley refuted at length Pastor Chiniquy^ assertions re the Irish famine, and read extracts from a pamplet as to the disposal of the money collected by Chiniquy, and other matters' connected with his life* Dunedin, Tuesday. The Native Lands Claim Commission held a formal sitting, and adjourned till Wednesday, when Judge Symonds, who surveyed the Otago block, will be examined. Arrived — Barque Eleanor Vernon, 97 days from New York. The police have decided to take no further action in the King-atreet affair. Over 7000 ounces of gold have been sent down by the escort during the past two months. The. Dunedin School Committee will bring the compulsorv clauses into operation on the 15th April. ; ' ' ! McLoughlin is committed for trial for the manslaughter of James Robinson near Roxburgh. Extensive frauds have been discovered in connection with sales of spurious gold by Chinese at Cromwell. The manager of the Colonial Bank there detected' a parcel of 90 ounces containing one fourth spurious gold. Ah Sin was arrested at Naseby through Chinese influence. The: Banks at other places I . have purchased small quantities. ;•• It is believed that an extensive spurious gold manufactory exists. A bush fire at Katiki destroyed Potter's old mill and 200 acres of bush recently purchased for £6000, besides £500 worth of . sawn timber. Timaru, Tuesday. At the inquest on John Burns, a laborer who was. killed by a fall of earth at the building excavations on Saturday, the jury added to the verdict of accidental death a '■ rider that from the frequency of such accidents the jury consider that contractors should be compelled to place watchmen on the top of the works while undermining was going on, to give sufficient warning in case of danger. A plague of caterpillars has almost totally destroyed the flower gardens and orchards in and around Timaru. Prayers are being offered up for the Sparrow Clubs, and the demand for poisoned wheat has entirely ceased. An inquest was held last evening on the body of Thomas Adamson, 11 years of age, who died on Sunday at midnight. The evidence showed that deceased was discovered insensible three miles from his father's residence at five in the afternoon, and subsequently had several fits. The verdict was, " Death from sunstroke." Pastor Chiniquy arrived to-day, and was escorted by a powerful body guard of Protestant clergymen and the Master of the Orange Lodge. He lectures to night in the Presbyterian Church. Heavy rain fell last evening, and to day is showery. New Plymouth, Monday. The Native Commissioner ha3 written to Te Whiti, telling him that the Commission will Bit at Opunake to hear claims. Te Whiti sent back word that they had better come on to Parihaka and hold their sittings, as that was where the natives resided, and there were no natives living at Opunake. It is said that, with the exception of a few well-known loyal natives, none will put in an appearance before the Commission at Opunake. Patrick Foley, the young man who was dragged with a rope round his neck for 500 yards by a horse he was untetbering, died yesterday morning. Tuesday. In the case against Ah Hoy for keeping a Chinese gambling house, the Resident Magistrate dismissed the case on the ground that there was nothing to prevent any person keeping a gambling house in New Zealand. Invercargill, Tuesday. Judgment was given in the District Court yesterday against H. Mayo for £40 and costs. The evidence showed that the money, which had been given to him to place in the Bank, had been used by the defendant for his own purposes. Judge Harvey said thiß amounted to a breach of trust, but decided to try it as a debt case. The plaintiff in another action was sent to gaol for 48 hours for using a strong term to the defendant while in the witness box. Soon after the train left town for Clinton last evening, the driver missed the fireman, John Leonard. The train was stopped, and he was found alongside the line insensible. He is supposed to have gone out on the stage and missed his hold, and fallen backwards. He was removed to the hospital, where he was found to be suffering from concussion of the brain. He is still unconscious. He has a wife and family. Auckland, Monday. On Saturday last a brutal indecent assault was committed by a Fijian on a little girl five years old, the daughter of George Smith, in the Bishop's paddock, Parnell. The police gave chase and the perpetrator ran into a swamp near Kohimarania. The police got bogged. They surrounded the swamp all Saturday and Snnday nights, but the Fijian is supposed to have escaped. It is the same bush Winiata got into. To-day the police are scouring the country, and the telegraph has been put in motion warning the police in the out districts. The teachers are moving to obtain room for a library in the Training College. It is said tfcnt the Mormon elders here have converted two or three. They held a Mormon service again yesterday. Archbishop Steina performed pontifical high mass yesterday and confirmed a large number of children. .