INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 109, 7 May 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Friday. At the Supreme Court the case of Loudon v. Edwards was heard. The action was • brought by a storekeeper at Foxton to recover £500 damages, and £300 special damages, from Edwards, of the firm of Moorhollße, Cutten, and Edwards, for loss incurred at a sale of furniture through defendant's conduct while acting as his solicitor. After tbe plaintiff's case had closed, a nonsuit was entered. James Osted reports:— Flour, Adelaide, no stock, slow sale at £15 to £15 10s ; Christcburch City Mills, Canterbury, large sales at £10 1 5s for merchants' lots, and bakers' , parcels £11 5s to £11 10s ; sharps, 80s to 86sbran, 75s to 80s; oatß, Is lid to 2s Id; potatoes, 60s to 65s for prime, bags includedbams and baeon, lid to ll£d, equal sorts. ' Dunbdin, Friday. The Maori prisoners were visited yester- . day by Mr Watts, KM., who intimated that on Saturday they would be supplied with winter clothing. Mining news in the Cromwell district is healthy. The Cromwell Company crushed 168 ounces from 163 tons. From Itudifords claim, Carrick, 120 ounces from 100 tons. Last Chance .claim crushed 180 for 140 ounces. ,_ ~

Auckland, Friday. At the Police Court to-day Sarah Bostock was charged with evading Customs duties on a quantity of jewellery brought by the ship Ben Nevis. The goods consisted of twenty gold watches, lockets, rings, pins, brooches, tea services, buttons, two cases jewellery, shoes, and clothing. Mr Brookfield, the Crown Prosecutor, prosecuted. The prisoner was fined £100 and costs, or alternative of six months imprisonment. Mr Brookfield withdrew the second charge. The Bench hoped that the personal effects would be returned. Mr Brookfield replied that everything was forfeited, but no doubt the clothing and necessaries would be returned. Richard Asb, a milkman, was fined for selling milk adulterated with water. Mr Reader Wood will address hi3 constituents to-night. ; The Auckland Shipwrights Association adopted rules and appointed an Executive Committee to protect the interests of shipping trade and communicate with the Government respecting grievances, one grievance being the payment of overtime after Customs hours for work done on ships from outside the colony.