INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 191, 12 August 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunedin, Thursday. O'Brien's party struck a payable reef of gold in a deep lead on the Waipori Flat on Saturday.. A number of claims of the aggregate area of 30 acres have been taken up. At a meeting last evening a resolution in favor of the construction of the Otago Central Railway to Sutton was carried unanimously. An amendment which recom- - mended tbat beyond the point mentioned in the motion the railway sbould not be extended, but that a me tailed road to the in terior -should be formed, did not obtain a single vote beyond the mover's. Messrs [Stout,

, Fish, Shand, Bell_. and JMatheson "were the principal speakers. The Inquest on the body of Mrs Young was resumed yesterday at Kyeburn. A number of Chiuamen have been arrested, the police beiug confident from the evidence in their possession that they have discovered that the crime can be sheeted home to either one or two Chiuamen. Tho cord used for gagging was of a most peculiar character and no t race of it could be obtained anywhere. A Chinaman arrested yesterday in a hut aboufc a mile from Naseby had a piece of this peculiar cord in his possession. He had also a number of scratches and otber marks on his person, some of them such bb might have been inflicted by a candlestick. His boots also correspond with the prints in the neighborhood of the garden fence. Some of the other Chinamen have scratches and bruises and it is asserted that the marks can be also traced. The Compensation Court awarded the claimant iv the case of Aloes v. the Corporation £1654 and costs, making a total award of £4234. Christchurch,. Thursday. A man named Elder sustained a fracture of the led by a sbeep running against him in the Papanui saleyard. The body of a mnn at present unknown has been discovered in the Staution River in the Waiau. Prizes to the amount of £130 were paid last night on account of the recent poultry show. A Local Industries Association is being formed at Ashburton. Afc a public meeting held at Cust to consider the Counties Act a resolution was carried to the effect that the Governor should not have the power to assume the powers of a County Council wbere the Counties Acfc is nofc in force; also a resolution censuring Mr Moorhouse, member for the district, for inattention to resolutions previously forwarded. There were 383 patients admitted to the Christchurch Hospital during the last half year. Blenheim, Thursday. Yesterday afternoon Mr Bolton rode into town and reported to tbe police that he had found the body of a man on the beach eleven miles from Blenbeim. He could form no opinion whether ifc was a seafaring man, or had beeu washed down the Awatere River. A constable proceeded to the place, but has not yet returned. Invehcargili,, Friday. Great surprise is expressed at the nonissue of the new returns under the Property Tax, as they are supposed to be sent in at the end ot the presenfc monlh. . Several Land Tax defaulters, principally farmers, figured in Court this morning. Mr R. S. Martin, the Commissioner, stated fchafc no less than seven separate notices had been served on each of them. Wellington, Thursday. A man named James Browa was charged at the Magistrates' Court afc Maßterton with attempting suicide by cutting his throat, and \ wbs remanded for eight days. J H.M.S. Raleigh sailed for Plymouth this morning. Sir Hercules Robinson's son ia a passenger by her. Westpokt, Thursday. The alterations which were found necessary in the Colliery Company's incline on the railway were completed yesterday, and a truck of coal was lowered in the presence of the shareholders and others. The incline worked without hitch and the management expect to be in full working order in a few days. New Plymouth, Thursday. The Herald's correspondent at Urenui writes thus : — " Most of our native friends started for Parihaka on Tuesday. I hear that Te Whiti sent word to them to hurry up. The natives iuform me thafc the fencing isto be continued until ouly threo men are left at Parihaka, namely, Te Whiti, Tohu. and Hiroki. On learning of the death of a Maori prisoner afc Dunedin, named Watson — their heing two of that name— the Natives held a tangi over the wrong man. The Natives are angry afc the Government not informing them when a relation dies. Nearly all the head men amongst the Natives, who came from the Chatham Islands twelve years ago, are ill or in prison." James Fraser Bell was charged this morniug at the Police Court with falsification of the register of the birth of a child. It appears thafc ha married a woman named Annie Lydia Haynes afc Auckland iv 1869, and went afterwards to Wellington to reside. In 1877 a daughter of the woman came out from England. Bell and his wife did not live happily together so they separated aud the daughter took up with him at Wanganui. They went to Patea together and lived as husband and wife, and afterwards came to New Plymouth, where she gave birth to a male child. Bell registered the child as his legitimate offspring, hence tbe prosecution. The girl, who is only 18 years old, said she left her home because her mother wished her to go on the street, and that Bell cared for her and so she went to live wilh him. Her mother was not Bell's wife, as she had told witness she was married to another man.