INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 26, 3 November 1880, Page 2

IN TERPROV INC IAL .

j Wellington, Tuesday night. The Executive to-day decided to commute the death sentence on Joe to imprisonment for life, on the ground that he had on two previous occasions h&d fits of iusanity. , It is reported to-day that the Natives at Parapara attempted unsuccessfully to stop Mr Hursthouse, the Government engineer, while'riding along the road. .._•■-_• . Dunkdin, Tuesday. ! Mrs Galbraith, a passenger by the Rotorua, jumped overboard on the voyage from Melbourne, and was drowned. Wednesday. , la Cameron's Consultation,' the first prize goes to a country settler, the second to a* Dunedin Insurance agent, and the third to Jock Graham; J , OAmamj, Weclnesday. Mrs Richards waß found hanging by the neck at Mat.mo, and is supposed to have committed suicide. CnnisTCHuncn, Wednestay. Yesterday at a conference of the City and Suburban School Committees a uniform system of school holidays was agreed upon. Heavy rain has been falling for several hours.: Jt will do an immense deal. pf good to the crops which promise exceedingly well. Ltttklton, Wednesday. The Halcione sailed yesterday for London wiih cix pai.enger. and a full cargo ; and tbe barque Sunbeam for Cape Town with one passenger and 6,000 sacks. Auckland, Wednesday. The Hon Claude Park of Kati Kati has been arrested at the < suit of a Tauranga solicitor for a debt of £100 contracted on board the Ringarooma wben et route for England. A paragraph . published here accuses Mr Mr Maginnity of having written to Sydney asking the. manager there not to employ any telegraphists who went on strike in New Zealand. In Abbot's £5000 sweep on the Cup the first prize, £1000, goes to J. P. Robertson of Wbangarei, the second of £400 to W. Eoss, and tbe third of £200 to H. P. Bartlett of Auckland. In Abbot's £2800 sweep on the Cup the first prize £624 goes to Skellan of Wbangarei, the second £416 to P..G. Harper of. Auckland, and tbe third £208 was secured by an Auckland gentleman. . - ... ■--■'••"■ Gbbttown, Wednesday. Hararaerich's Rising Sun Hotel was destroyed by fire at 2.30 this morniog. The inmates had a narrow escape, some, baying tp escape: by sliding down the Terandah"ppsis. The hotel, stables, and out houses were completely destroyed. It is not known how the fire originated. The insurances were :— - North British and Mercantile, £ l OOOVUnited, £500; Imperial, £500; Union, £950; and Colonial £250.