INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 158, 3 July 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

„ , Dunedin, Saturday. r ...Some rich gold discoveries are reported frotn the Forks, hetween Lakes Wanaka and Hawea. " The sinking is from five feet, and a nugget weighing four ounces has been Cfowjd. The ground, however roust be

limited, owing to the nature of the country. A number of Cromwell residents have gone ' out prospecting. " CnRiRTcntJRCH, Saturday. The Sunday School Union Centenary closed yesterday. It was a great success throughout. At a crowded meeting last night convened hy tbe Committee of the unemployed, resolutions were carried accepting the offer of the Goverumeufc re the village settlements and wages on the public works, ard to the effect that, should the Government not adhere to their offers, a self supporting Emigration Society will be formed. Mr Taylor, the American consul, cautioned the unemployed that America was not always prosperous, but that hard times were experienced there as well as elsewhere. He said he was quite certain that the American Government would not pay for immigrants from anywhere, when it was remembered that 34.000 emgrated to the United States in April at their own cost. Timaru, Saturday. An amusing race of 100 yards between the landlord of tbe Grosvenor Hotel and a Veterinary Surgeon, both weighing over eighteen stone, for £10 a side, took place this morning resulting in the latter winning by a stride. Henry Davis, an unemployed man, after walking overland from the Waka Pass to Nelson, and back to Timaru, had to break a tobacconist's window in order to obtain admission to gaol. The Bench gave him fourteen days. Dr Murdoch was rendered insensible by falling from his horse last evening while crossing the railway line. Considerable sensation has been caused by the discovery that the portion o2 the breakwater which recently slipped out, necessitating the breaking of the monolith, had been propped up with bags of concrete instead of resting on solid blocks. The steady fall of rain during the past few days has filled the wells and tanks in the town just as a water famine was beginning to cause complaiuts. Auckland, Saturday. The barque Bertha, frora Rockhamp ,ou to London with a cargo of wool and tallow, has put in here leaky. Lawlor, the butcher charged with bigamy, was brought before the Police Court this morning, and has been committed for trial. Invercargill, Saturday. An inquest is proceeding on an extraordinary caso of tbe woman Cameron, who died in child birth through the apparent neglect of Dr Moffat., who ran away from the case after partially effecting delivery, although implored by the man and his wife to st»y The medical evidence is inconclusive, and the case is adjourned for a second postmortem examination by another practitioner. — •*-'&• v -