INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 55, 4 March 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Pkess Association. | Wellington, Thursday. Mrs Harding of the Brunswick Hotel, for allowing dice to be thrown in her. bouse after midnight, was fined 40s and costs. The Pukuratahi Hotel which was destroyed by fire, was insured for £1100 in the Colonial and £200 in the Royal. A report has just reached town that one man has been killed and another seriously injured by a fall of gravel in a ballast pit at Featherston. Typhoid fever is prevalent in some parts of the city. The Flower Show to-day was a great success. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency report under date London March 2nd: — " Wool sales progress firmly. They comprise about 18,700 bales. The list is now closed and 26,000 bales have been sent to the manufacturing districts direct. The sales will close on the 12th. Up to date 121,000 bales have been sold. The principal advance has been in crossbred superior greasy, superior combing, wabbed and scoured. The competition by both home and foieign buyers is active. The next sales will commence on the 20th April, 350,000 bales being admissable. The tallow market is auiet, best rnuttou being worth £37, and best'beef £35 10s per ton. The foreign arrivals are high. Adelaide wheat is worth 60s and New Zealand 57s per 396 lbs. The leather market iB flat. ,_ T Auckland, Thursday. Mr Lawson Superintendent of Constructed Kailways, goes South to-morrow. Strong indignation has been aroused by an attempt of the Mormon elders to kidnap a married woman and three children yesterday by the mail steamer, and tarring and feathering was openly threatened to Elder Sorenson who remains here. The woman's passage was not paid, but was to have been paid as soon as the steamer got outside Judge and Mrs Gillies were passengers by the mail steamer. Herbert tTneet, with several other aliases, was charged with vagrancy, and obtaining charitable subscriptions under false pretences. He was remanded to Dunedio. The phonograph company have [come to grief and the phonograph has been pawned. Timaru, Wednesday. The trial of the rioters was resumed this morning. Mr Stout delivered an address for the defence of an hour's duration, his chief argument being that, although there had been a disturbance, no terror had been

excited such as to constitute k rioit, and he appealed to the jury as Protestants, seeing that the Catholicß had been carefully challenged and excluded, to deal generously and acquit the accused, whose conduct he considered was excusable, seeing how their religious feelings were outraged by an offensive demonstration. Judge Ward began his summing up by a melodramatic and affecting allusion to the way in which the bones of Catholics now mingled with those of Protestants, and the desirability of the same harmony prevailing in life. At one o'clock no verdittt had been returned. Henry Chamberlain, charged with stealing a watch was acquitted, aa there was no direct evidence of theft beyond possession, and the watch had been lost over two years ago. Thursday. In the riot casea the jury have returned a verdict of guilty againßt all the rioters except O'Js.eefe, Kelly, and Watson, but recommended them to mercy. Their counsel, Mr Stout, has moved for a new trial on the ground of misdirection, and the point will be argued to morrow. J. Colt, for fraudulent bankruptcy, was found not guilty. DcNEDiisr, Thursday. Mr Dick proceeded to Wellington this mornining to be sworn in. .Mr Cargill's wool telegram sayst— " There have been higher prices for fleece, and greasy has averaged 2d per lb higher, and for crossbred 3d per lb higher than at the close of the last series. The quantity of new arrivals to be included in the new services is 350,000 whether this figure is reached before or after the commencement of the sales." Gbeymotjth, Thursday. A serious accident occurred to-day in the Briinner mine. The manager, Mr Elliot, and a carpenter named Broadfoot, were examining the mine, when the latter held a lighted candle to examine the works, and an explosion of foul air ensued, and both Elliott and Broadfoot were seriously burnt, the latt(?r dangerously so. The mine is uninjured. Chbistchurch, Thursday. It was definitely decided last evening at an adjourned meeting of the rowing men to bold the Heathcote Regatta, on March 24th. Eighty-nine pounds were collected for prizes. A man named Roberts whilst loading grain on the railway at Methven had his foot crushed yesterday between the bags and the Bide of the truck. He was brought down to the Christchurch Hospital. Fresh cases of scarlatina broke out yesterday in the married peoples quarters of immigrants on Kipa Island. The single women are in excellent health, and will shortly be released from quarantine. New Plymouth, Thursday. The Taiaroa arrived this morning early, and sailed at 10 o'clock for Nelson and Southern ports. Passengers : Mrs Gibbs, Parmenter (2), Messrs McAlister, Green. Forsjth,F. Roberts, W. Foote, F. Foote, Banchop, Muir, Howard, and Flynn.