INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 237, 6 October 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Tuesday. Joe, the New Hebrides native charged with wilful murder, pleaded guilty at the ■Supremo Court this morning before the jury were empanelled. Mr .Justice Richmond explained through the interpreter, Mr Thurston, brother of the Colonial Secretary of Fiji, that he could withdraw the plea if he liked when the jury were empanelled, and when this was done the prisoner again pleaded guilty, making a statement to the effect that he was under the influence of drink, and that Saukcy's boys had irritated him. He was sentenced to death,, Wednesday. At the Supreme Court to-day Alex Smith seventeen j'ears of age charged with iudecent assault was sentenced to three months imprisonment, and three private whippings with the cat of twelve lashes each. The newly opened Tattersall'a Club met last night and adopted rules. Tawhiao is keeping his people busily employed on large cultivations ia the bush between Ilikurangi and Kawhia. The Kiugites are assuming an attitude of the utmost indifference to what ia passing at Tarauaki. Some of the Maoris allied with the Waikato tribes have got into trouble there through their fencing proclivities, but Tawhiao's followers say that it serves them right and that all this comes of their leaving their legitimate monarch and putting faith in an usurper. The production of coal from the Waikato Company's mine is steadily increasing, the output last month having been between 1 GOO and 1700 tons. The brigantine Clansman is now taking in a cargo of ICO tons for Oamaru. The Auckland merchants are proposing to make arrangements to develope.the twie with the Waimate Plains when, they are settled.

Sir George Grey has been elected paticon of the Auckland Cricket dribs, At the Harbor Board meeting yesterday a lettet was received froni Major Atkinson stating that a dispatch had been received by the Administrator of the Government; enoloaiug a letter from the Admiirally which stated that, lDDkiug to tlie existing facilities for docking Her Majesty's ships on the Australian station, their Lordships were not prepared to recommend that assistance be given froni the Naval funds towards the construction of a new dock iv Auckland with a view to the provision, of further dock accommodation for the B<|uacU'du. Dunedin, Tuesday. A four-roomed cottage on Maori Hill was burnt this morning. The house was occupied and owned by Mr Cqwan; and was insured in the National £or .£340. The loss is .£2OO above that. Alexander Weiler was convicted of obtaining money under false pretences. The Crowu abandoned the other charges. Wodnesday. At the public trial of the new abeam excavatOr to-day, David ProudfooMbe contractor for the harbor reclamation^ said he had been forced to procure the machine in consequence of the high wages demanded by the men. He thought the time had come when laborers would have to accept Cs or 6s Gd rer day, and his firm would pay no more. The excavator has proved a great success. It is stated on good authority that the services of Inspector Mallard are to be dispensed with. There are general expressions of regret, as both privately and in his official capacity Inspector Mallard is held in high esteem. Six children were committed to the Industrial School by the Bench to-day, cousistiug of the family of O'Neill who was convicted at the Lawrence Circuit of fraudulent bankruptcy, and whose wife died since his conviction. Inspectors Mallard and Fox have been notified that their services will be dispensed with after the 31st inst. The Otago and Southland districts will bo undertaken by Superintendent Weldon and two Inspectors. Wellington, Wednesday. Mr Mfc, a chemist, was charged to-day with selling laudanum and not causing an entry to be made in his book. He waß fined in a nominal sum. The cook of the schooner Madeline has been arrested for attempting to use a knife against one of the seamen. The accused is a colored man. Napier, Tuesday. Spring Handicap: Piscatorius 1, Parmina 2, Mavis 3. Marie Stewart, Never Miss, anJ Trausit ran. Libeller, Ilewi, Laverock, and Omega were scratched. Wednesday. The Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society's annual show opened at Haßtinccs to day. The weather was all that could be desired. CimisTcnuncH, Wednesday. A notification has bean received to the effect that all the Folice Inspectors in Canterbury and Westland are to be dispensed with after the 31st of October. Thi3 will necessitate the retirement of Sub-Inspector O'Donnel of Christchurcb, Inspector Pender of Timaru, Inspector Haast of Greymouth, Inspector Buckley of Kaiapoi, and Inspector Kiely of Hokitika. Twenty-five Maori prisoners, including the chief William King, arrived at Lyttelton yesterday from Dunedin, and this morning, after interviewing the Maoris in gaol, they sailed in the Hinemoa for Wellington. A prisoner escaped from the Akaroa lockup on Monday but was captured. He has since escaped again. The Acclimatization Society's hatching operations have been so successful that the Society is rather puzzled to know what to do with the young trout. A Maori whaling party at Ikoraki have caught a largo whule. The new railway tariff has created great dissatisfaction as affecting local industries and in comparison with the charges in other parts of the colony. New Pr/nrouTir, Wednesday. The steamer Ilawea arrived early this morning, and left at 9.15 a.m. for Nelson and Southern ports. Passengers— Mr and Mrs Hyde, Miss Simpson, Mrs Quillian and family (4), Messrs Simpson, Moeller, Young, Shearer, McQuarrie, Arnett, Sergeant Steele, and Master Squires. Invercargill, Wednesday. In a communication to the Riverton School Committee refusing to allow a school to be constituted a High School, the Minister for Education states that certain alterations are contemplated m the legislation regarding secondary schools. Foxton, Wednesday. The case against John Frederick Rockstrow for a breach of the Medical Practitioners' Act, 1869, befora the Resident Magistrate occupied the forenoon. The defendant conducted his own case, and made a good defence. He produced letters from the Government showing that, although they were aware thnt he was not legally registered, they urged him to accept the office of Medical Referee in connection with the Government Insurance, and other posts. At the close of the defendant's speech there was considerable applause. The Bench inflicted a fine of £25 and costs. Several of the witnesses refused to take their expenses (although subpoenaed for the prosecution) when it was known that the defendant would have to pay them.