INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 177, 27 July 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Christchurch, Tuesday. 150 of the unemployed applied yesterday for passes for up-country work, and 25 were granted. The Carandirris opened to a good house at the Oddfellows Hall last night. A complimentary dinner to the promoters of the late Industrial Exhibition takes place to-night. Napier, Tuesday. Bartzutsky, a cunmaker, has beenairested on a charge of selling ammunition to a man without a license. A man named Anderson had bought ammunition in very large quantities for the natives, and a constable saw him hand it to the natives, but when the ■ constable tried to seize it, he and the natives galloped off. He was subsequently arrested, as well as one Maori who bad part of the spoil in bis possession. Last week three natives were arrested at Woodville en route for West Coast with two cwt of shot and a large bag of powder, but were released on a telegram from the Native Minister. These natives are known to be followers of Te Wbiti. The natives are renewing their claim for 250 acres of Harding's property at Mount Vernon, valued at from £10 to £15 per acre, and let from £1 to £1 10s per annum. They again turned one of the tenants off the land yesterday, unyoking his horses and throwing the plough over the boundary. No claim was before made to this land. An official notification has been received stating that the Government will not interfere. The Herald's Wairarapa correspondent, however, last night telegraphs that the natives profess themselves willing to submit their claims to a number of old settlers. Ddnedin, Tuesday. John Marshal], an ex-constable, was charged at the District Court at Paltnerston yesterday with forging a consent to the marriage of his wife, who was a minor. The prosecution broke down, owing to the consent in question purporting to be signed by the mother instead of the father of the girl.