INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 128, 29 May 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Christchtjboh, Saturday. At the B.M. Court this morning " Wicked " Marks, fruiterer, was fined 5s for selling on a Sunday ; and R. Gilkes was sentenced to 24 hours imprisonment for stealing a receipt for £8. Gilkes went to pay bis rent and

exhibited the money, and asked for a receipt, and when it was made out he Sei'aed it and refused to pay the money. The Mayor has received subscriptions towards the establishment of a soup kitchen, and a public meeting is called for Monday to establish one. Yesterday 6,000 bushels of first-class oats were sold by auction at eight pence a bushel, deliverable on a farm near an upcountry railway terminus. The body of a newly born infant was found in the River Avon yesterday. The Volunteers were inspected by General Davidson last night, when there was a good muster. A meeting will shortly beheldatßangiora to protest against the Property Tax. AtjdliXAND, Saturday. Tawhaio, the Maori King, is reported to be ill with consumption, and is losing much blood. Rewi remains at Hikurangi. A central Hospital is being advocated at the Waikato. Mr Stewart, engineer, has arranged with the Natives for the construction of the Rotorua Road. William Cain, for indecently laying hands on a female in Queen-street, was find £5 and costs or one month's imprisonment. A son of Purukutu, who murdered Sullivan in the Waikato some two years ago, attended the Cambridgejraces, and got drunk, and stripped and threatened to kill and eat a European. He was locked up by the police. Napier, Saturday. Herika, the Native charged with burning another Maori, was today committed for trial at the Supreme Court. Mr William Colenso writes to the Herald asking when this meddlesome interference with the Natives is to cease. He says that Herika was only following out an old practice amongst Maoris, who, like the natives of .ludia and other countriesj often relieved pain by baking the suffered. He adds that this method of cure is very efficacious sometimes. The Herald declares it has authority for stating that the proposals of the Government, relative to the substitute for the subsidies referred to ia the Governor's speech, will take the form suggested by Mr Ballauce, namely, making all Native and Crown Lands subject to rates. Hamilton, Saturday. The Waikato Times denies on authority the New Zealand Herald's statement that Rewi made a speech saying that he withdrew his lands from the control of the King, also the Herald's stntemeut that Rewi will not take possession of the house built for him by the Government at Kihikihi umil a Crown grant is handed to him. iNVEKCARGiLii, Saturday. At a meeting of the Eastern District Reform Association, motions were carried expressing disapproval of Mr Schanks not having addressed the Mataura electors, and stating a want of confidence in him. A requisition is being circulated requesting his resignation. Captain Raymond, a large runholder, publishes a letter, in which he asserts that phosphorus and oats without rhodium is a perfest specific for the rabbit nuisance, and that his land has been thoroughly cleared at the rate of 500 acres in three days. Dunedin, Saturday. Mr P. C. Neill's Beaumont Station of 70,000 acres leasehold with 20,000 sheep has been sold to Mr Alexander Brown, of Green Island, but the price is withheld. The escort brought down 4000 ounces of gold to day.