INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 151, 25 June 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

E-3-- I '/ui:;' ;* -.;..,-Abhburton, Friday. There is great excitement in the township orer r a whplesale spread about the streets of poisoned bread and batter. Twenty valuable dogs are already dead,: and it is feared that young 'children may" pick up the dosed food and die. The police are active but unsuccessful, and large rewards are offered for the conviction of ;the guilty, party. •jfcfcs .■^•••a.ff.U.J .'' Chkistchukch, Friday. The Bali last night in aid of the Masonic Scholarship Endowment Fund was a great access; , "!A.t a; meeting of the Railway Employees Benefit Society last night, the finances were shown to be in a much better position than a.t/iuiy^preyiquß period,^the receipts during the half year being £141, and: the expenditure Xl 4.

At a meeting of delegates of the Friendly Societies last night, it was resolved to form a Friendly Societies Association for Canterbury. Wellington, Friday. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency report, under date London, 22nd June :— The tallow market is quiet; best mutton is worth £Z5 per ton, and best beef .£32 10s. The wheat market is quiet, and the reports concerning the growing crops here are favorable. Adelaide is worth 50s. per 496ib5., aud New Zealand 48s. Leather; best sides are worth ll£d. per 1b ; the basils market is flat. The Bank of Eugland -rate is 2i per cent. A man named John Wilson was charged at the Magistrate's Court on two charges of indecent assault on children aged 11 aud 6 respectively. Charges of sly grog selling against Cato, fruiterer, was dismissed. His Worship intimated in no case would he convict unless tbe evidence of the informers agreed in every important point. Ekvejicargill, Friday. Consequent on the result of the poll re £120,000 loan, notice of motion was given to bo.row .£20,000 for improvements and extension of the gas works.