INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 66, 17 March 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Press Association. | Wellington, Tuesday. John Wallis, an old stettler, died this morning. He Was in his 93rd year. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency report under date London, March 13 :-T__e wool sales closed firmly at an average improvement of l-Jd to 2d"per lb, and we expect next sales to open at present quotations. Superior greasy has advanced from l£d to 2d) scoured 2d to 3d; superior combings, washed, ld to l^d ; combing washed 2d ; clothing washed Id since the close of last sales. Cross-bred greasy and combing, and washed and scoured have each advanced 3d per lb. Up to date 189,000 have been sold and 1 06,000 taken for export. The leather market continues flat. Best sides are worth llf. Tallow is dull of sale, best mutton being worth £36 10s and best beef _£_;5 10s per tou. Wednesday. At tbe Magistrates' Court this morning, Mr Wakeford, proprietor of the Bank Hotel, was fined £3 for selling spirituous liquors in the Arcade during young Scott's walk. The steamer Waitaki, which left for the South this afternoon, came to ' an anchor when half way down the harbor, the condenser opposite the . high ..pressure crank having burst. It is not yet known what delay will be occasioned Dunedin, Tuesday. Butler has been remanded till Monday. Besides the charges of murder and presenting a loaded revolver at Constable Townsend's bead, he will be charged with burglary at Mr Stamper's house. This place was found to be on fire under suspicious circumstances early on Saturday morning, and some of Mr Stamper's property was found on Butler when arrested. Wednesday. A petition 26 feet long and bearing over 800 signatures from the unemployed was forwarded to Wellington to-day. Timaru, Wednesday. Henry Thomas Reid, ex-librarian of the Timaru Mechanics Institute was remanded to Victoria on a charge of embezzling funds of the Building society at Warnambool, where he was also Town Clerk. Hisindentity was fully proved by a constable from Warnambool. Bail was refused. Auckland, Tuesday. Mr Ehrenfried, Mayor of the Thames, and Mr Sheehan waited on Messrs Hali and Roileston, and requested a re-imbursement of .£2300 alleged to have been wrongfully deducted from the sum supplied to the borough in the last three years for charitable purposes, aud also requested the Government to refund £500 promised by Mr Sheehan when not a Minister to be expended by the Thames people on the faith of a promise. The matter was referred to Mr Bryce. Wednesday. The Catholic schools marched in procession to the Domain headed by the Band, and sports are being held there. Judge Fenton of jthe Native Land Court, goes to Taranaki to give evidence before the Royal Commission. The Premier, accompanied by Messrs McFarlaue aud Brett, yesterday visited the abattoirs, waterworks, and asylum, ordering some alterations in the latter. Chrischurcb:, Wednesday. A painful incident is recorded here in connection with the Dunedin tragedy. Mrs Aitcheson, the mother of Mrs Grant, was in the train on Monday on the way down to visit her daughter quite unconscious of the deplorable event, and on reaching Palmerston she rectived a great shock by hearing one. of the passengers read from a newspaper tbe account of the murders. Yesterday a man named John Hall, working at a threshing machine on McGregor's farm in the Ashley district, had his left hand and portion of the arm dragged off when trying to right the twis'ed belt. A little girl named Mabel Wright, four years of age, fell into AddiDgton Creek yesterday afternoon, aud was drowned before help arrived. At auction yesterday fifty Union Insurance shares fetched 16s each.