INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 147, 21 June 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

. ,' ~ -■''-;; New Plymotjth, Monday., U:M James ' Hill} late Hospital Steward, wag charged with" haying fraudently embejszleql

certain articles, the property of • the ; New Zealand Government, on or about the 19th November ;last. ; From the evidence of the principal; witness, ib appears that a draper .supplied' blankets, , table, linen, etc., to the .late steward,,, who substituted a fictitious voucher for the goods, anii for which the. Government paid. The prisoner was committed for trial at the' next sitting of t!io : Supremo Court. The Natives are still showing a tacit opposition to the road parties to the south of Stouey River. They, have erected several , fences across the line of road at Ngak'umiknmi, and the constabulary have in cverv instance pulled the fences down only to fiud . them re-erected by the natives on" the following days. It is impossible to tell what this opposition may lead to. The first pile of the YVaitara wharf will bo driven at four o'clock ou Monday next. Donkdin, Monday. The Vinegar Hill Dunstan Creek district is looking well. Mills and Co. commenced washing up last week, and three buckets of .|.Uxff from the head tail race before the. • rnddock was cleaned down yielded !220'.0z5. They expect-to have ou the whole about 700 ounces this washing. Hoi versend's, claim at tbe Hyde continue to give good yields. The Uenevotent" Carnival so £ir has realised £1400. - ■ v> ■ > - .- \ ; The steamer ■Wanganui is. a' total wreck between Sydney" and' the "Clarence" river. She is icsured for £3,500. ' ' .. :1 ' .iN'vi^RCAßGirx, Monday. ■ Parties working » alluvial ground some ■ thirty-miles up the Waiaa river lately came to liiverton to sell gold and get miners' rights. They let out that they are working „.on an area sufficient for 500 t men. . , ] A draper's shop in the middle of a large : block had a narrow escape oh Saturday. ■ A :' . man lighting gas in a dressed \vind6w accidentally ignited the lace goods, creating a great blaze, which was fortunately extinguished through the presence of mind of the man, who stuck to the fire till he knocked it . out. TiarAttir, Monday. George Glccson,'the pedestrian, has been : sentenced to -seven days imprisonment for gambling with an " under and over '' table on the race course on Saturday. Three working men, named A. Gardner, and Eiands and Peter Keunedy, were found by the landlord of the Wasbdyko Hotel very drunk on his premises. As they bad called for but a few drinks his suspicious were aroused, and on a search being made he found in the stable two empty gin bottles, which they had evidently removed from the billiard room. They were sentenced to-day to one week's imprisonment. O'Connor commenced a twelve hours walking match against time on Saturday. He covered thirty miles in the first five and a half hours, but after completing forly-c-ight miles in nine hours aud forty-two minutes he had to throw up the sponge to an injured foot.