INTEPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 145, 18 June 1880, Page 2

INTE PROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Friday. The Star publishes a strange scandal about a doctor who recently purchased a practice. A young Swiss lady, to whom he had got engaged on board ship six months ago, came out by the last mail steamer with her troussean ready and prepared and expecting to be married in three day?.' He never went near her till forced by the chief officer of the mail steamer and subsequently said he would not marry her, and that he must have been drunk when he proposed. It then transpired that he was engaged to a lady living at Rangitikei where he has since gone, leaving the poor Swiss girl to her fate. The affair is causing a great sensation here. William O'Connell was charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £14 on the National Bank. The prisoner was sub-agent for the Government Life Insurance, and was recently canvassing at Coromandel, but, getting short of money, he presented the cheque in question at the Bank and was at once informed that it was forged. Ellen McClonglee, whose name the prisoner had forged, deposed that be had confessed to her. Wellington, Thursday. The mining lease of the Golden Point. Gold Mining Company, situated at Kaipara, Queen Charlotte Sound, was sold to-day to Mr Reeves, M.H.R., for £4000 and the plant to Mr Master for £ 1 15. Friday. In two days 4500 signatures were obtained, petitioning against the Municipal Corporation Amendment Bill. .The whole of the City Councillors signed the petition. Donedin, Friday. The Otago Acclimatisation Society urge the amendment of the Fisheries Bill by iucorporating the provisions of the Salmon and Trout Act 1867, and preserving the Acclimatisation Society's revenues from licenses and penalties. The Carnival takings to date amount to £510. The body found on the Hindon railway bas been -identified as that of Michael McCarthy, a laborer, who, while in a fit, to which he was greatly subject, fell into a few inches of water, and was drowned. j