INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 224, 21 September 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVIN CI A L.

Hokitika, Monday. A youth named James Carr, eighteen years old, a junior clerk in the Union Bank of Australia, was fishing from the upper protective works on Saturday morning last when he slipped into the river and was drowned. His body was found on the North .Beach this morning. An inquest was. held and a verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded. -'•■■■ j Mining matters nt Mapouiika are progressing favorably, though nothing new has been discovered. Seven or eight parties are in gold and others are progressing with their shafts and tunnels. GREYAiotmr. Tuesday. Five days crushing of 140 toDS of quartz from the Alpine Company (Limited) at the Lyell yielded 4200zs of amalgam from the

top plates. The returns from the top plateß of the Golden Fleece Extended for the past two monthß amounted to 6970zs of athalgatii. Dunedin, Tuesday. Twice last night a fire broke out in the premises of Garrington, a Chemist, in Walker street* The stock which was considerably, damaged by breakage and water, tf&s insured for £600 in the Colonial) and £400 in the Norwich Union The building, owned by Mr Blakely, was insured in the Koyal for £300. The building ia only slightly damaged. Auckland, Tuesday. Mr Gr. M. Reed is ton his way td the fc'olony as the Representative bf a laffefe aha* wealthy settlement patty for whom he will select a block of land in anticipation of their arrival. Mr Reed will be in Auckland ia the middle of October, and the first of the party, numbering twelve or fourteen- families and bringing with them £60,000 or £70,000, will arrive at Auckland Br ftapier boiiie IMb in December, Amongst the passengers by the City of New York to Sydney is Mr T. Ivory junior, of the Ivory Siud Company^ of Sydney; M? Ivory will return in about seven; months with a string of horses superior to those he recently brpught to New Zealand. PalmejVstok No^h, Tuesday. At the close of the District Court business last evening a deputation of the. bar and. Borough Council waited upon Judge Hardcastle to ask him again to comtntlnicate with the Government .and bfgS the absolute necessity of the immediate erection of a new building for which the money is now on tne estimate. Yesterday waft a pouring wet day and the jurorS hot empantlled, along with the witnesses, were obliged to crouch outside the building for shelter} there teing noroom inside. The -jury marched ddwn a Street to an empty house to consider their verdict Part of the Court fixtures had to be removed to allow room for forms, for the twelve jurymen to sit bn. The Judge informed the deputation that be heartily agreed with their strictures and had recently written to the Justice Department on the matter. He promised to take fresh action so. as to have the building erected T)efor& neit jdttiugs. , •''? A notorious character tamed 1 Thomas" l J eatce atia* ' k .RoU and goj" WelL&hown' in; Nelson, was sentenced to twelve months for brutal assault. , „ 5 . Wellington, Tueß^ay. '-.; Another bodjr was taken out of the harbor this morning, but has not yet been identified.. This makes the fourth within a fortnight. J . A rumor has just reached town that a dia-; turbance has broken out amongst the hard labor gang of prisoners Working near Newtown, and that one or two were rather severely handled. . ? \ ; Mr Bbaw, tt.M.) sat on the ftench for: the last time to-day; At the close of the Cburt, Mr Gordon Allan, on behalf of the bar, bomplimented Mr Shaw on the manner in which, he had performed the duties during his [residence here. Mr Shaw, In response, eulogised the officers of the Court, and spoke highly of the conduct of the police force of Wellington. He also thanked the bar for! the assistance they had rendered him during his stay. Mr Shaw is expected to return to New Plymouth to morrow. j