INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 95, 21 April 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

WELEiN&TbN, .Ttiesday night. The Wellington Coal Company's Mine was put up at auction to-day, and was I knocked down to Capt. 'Williauas at .£4,750. The tender of IV Reese of £2,294 has been accepted for the -erection of a new railway station. • Wednesday. Ia the cftse McKenzie v. Smith the rule for a new trial was made absolute with costs. The notice of appeal given in the case Larnach ond others <v. McKetozie tbe rule wasmade absolute with costs. . Information has been laid against a butcher named Devereax for, setting fire to his house on February 4th. The case will be heard on Friday. Sir Diljon Bell and Sir William Fox, Native Commissioners, are here and remaia for a few days. It is not known if' they intend to take any evidence. . New Plymouth, Tuesday. The Oriental Exhibition bas met with .great sucoess in New Plymouth. Hundreds [having visited ifc daily to examine the curiosities from Jerusalem and the Holy * Land, j. The proprietors left by steamer this morning .for Nelson, and" will open in your city on Saturday night. „ • ' Auckland, Tuesday." The barque Wellington, bound from Kaipara to Melbourne, put back ma leaky state with seven feet of water in the hold. The pumps did nofc reduce the leak, which was started in a gale. i The Southern Cross ia placed on the Fiji .trade. .-• . : Complaints are made by colliers that the Union Company's vessels convey coal beyond requirements from Russell to other places,. and sell it. ■■ -' .„,' Newa .have been received here that the pf the Waikato Land Association iato be issued before the departure of .the mail, to settle the Piako lands withia capital ,of £600,000 in £20 shares. Directors,: Thos. Russell, Si?. Jas. Fergusson,ana>MrMundeil. Niuety - thousand acres is to.be Void, for :£300,000. Half the capital is to be .absorbed iu' the fli«t purchase of land. The' Piako estate will be divided into manageable farms, and it is expected that the scheme will bring half a million of money into Auckland. Wednesday. . Mr Oliver returned bere from the Thames early this morning. He proceeds South by the Penguin on Friday. Stealing lead from roofs is prevalent. Dunedin, Wednesday. Colonel Stavely has called a meeting of captains of corps in the Dunedin district to investigate (he charges . made against the Volunteers who took part in 'the late review. It is not yet known what course the Crown intend taking re the other charges of murder against Butler. The minor charges against Buller will be takeu to-morrow. Chbistchurch, Wednesday. The members .of the Local Committee of the Sydney Exhibition held* a preliminary meetiug yesterday with a view to acting in. a similar capacity for the Melbourne Exhibition, but owing to the absence of a reply from Wellington to a telegram .ent .they were unable to transact any business. i The Drainage Board have agreed to allow the City Council £3 per chain for repairing the streets where they are badly broken up by -he 6ewers, ahd.£l per chain ia other places.. " . 81,019 bags of grain were carried on the Christchurch section last week. '■ It is stated that the Swi newspaper has : been sold to the Echo, an evening paper jusfc started. The price is believed to be £_00 \ William May, for alleged arson at Mount Thomas in connection with Jervis Wilson, I hns been committed for trial. Bail was allowed. A man named Francott, working on board the Rotorua yesterday, was struck by two packs of barley which slipped out of the sling, ahd sustaiued injuries on the back. ' At Doyleston on Tuesday morning 400 sacks of grain belonging to Turner, Bell, farmer, were totally; consumed by fire. The cause i 3 unknown. "It will ''be a heavy loss to the owner as they were uninsured. .It is supposed tq be $lie work of an incendiary. The Sim newspaper has been sold to the proprietors pf the Evening Echo. The price is said to be; £4000Ford, Bell, & Co. sold yesterday four quarter-acre sections at Sumner two at £60, and two at £72 1 0s each. . , : The Canterbury Liberal Reform Association yesterday resolved to petition the Government to bring in a Re-distribution of Seats Bill on the basis of population next. session, to take effect as early as possible after the' rising of Parliament. In vbrcakgill, Wednesday. Thomas Flynn, a bootmaker at Gore, filed for £60. He was afterwards discovered to have withdrawn £90 from the Bank. On being taxed with this he gave up £86. The bankrupt was brought up at the District Court and remanded for eight days. The Judge intimated that creditors would receive the amounts due in full, and the balance would go towards the expense? i of the prosecution. . • , •- -