INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 246, 8 December 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Wednesday. It is understood that tbe Customs department intend to prosecute a number of publicans for a breach of tbe Beer Duty Act in not defacing the stamps on the beer barrels It is stated that counsel has been engaged for the defence of the prisoner Tubi. He is watched in his cell night and day, and is never alone for a moment. The Licensing Bench refused all applications for new licenses. At the present time 375 persons are in receipt of relief from tbe Benevolent Institution. Christchurch, Wednesday. A house occupied by Mr E. W. Millet was burnt down. last bight during the absence of the occupants. The furniture was uninsured. The building was insured for £100 in ths National Ofßce, A grocery store and its contents, the property of Mr Carson, were also destroyed. Tbe stock was uninsured. The building was insured for £300 in the Victoria, and the furniture for £100 in the Sbalh Biitish. Mr Carson had £100 in cash in the store which was also destroyed. Nailer, Wednesday. A Supreme Court writ in the case of tbe Omaranui block owned by Mr Jrutlon, but which he had been deprived of by the Maoris for the last ten years-, Was served today by the Sheriff's Officer. A party of eight went to serVe the writ, and on their arrival at the pah it was found that all the men were absent, and from what subsequently transpired it appeared that tbey had determined to leave only women and decrepid men there in the belief that the Europeans would not use force to eject tbem. The bailiff and his assistant waited all day trying to find some of the meu but unsuccessfully, and at' last, having failed in repeated efforts to get the women to leave peacefully they were obliged to use force. The women declared that they would sooner die than leave their land and . taunted the Europeans with sending a war party against defenceless Womeb arid children. A sudden fancy then took them and they began to strip, decloring that tbey would be removed naked, and when at last they were carried out kickiug, struggling, and screaming, they wore only chemises. Possession waa then formally given to Mr Sutton, and soon the women seemed reconciled, and asked Mr Sutton to send his cabs to convey them to Tareha's pab and thia was done* Tareba was acquainted with the proceedings and acknowledged that the orders of the Supreme Court must be obeyed, and three men were then left in possession, the remainder returning to town. All seemed satisfactorily settled when, two hours later, a native policeman and eight Maoris went and removed the men in possession. They stated that Capt. Preece, the Native agent, and Mr Hamlin had informed them that tbe ejectment had been carried out by the orders of Mr Sutton and not of the Supreme Court, and though tbey would yield to the Court they would not yield to Mr Sutton. Aucklvkd, Wednesday. , Private advices from Taupo report tbat the Natives refuse the services of lawyers arid the proceedings of tbe Land Court are interrupted. Dr and Mrs Harvey have been appointed master and matron of the Industrial Home. It is stated here that the Public Works Department have accepted Messrs Larkins and O'Brien's tender for the extension of the Bay of Islands railway, the amount beiug about £25,000. Dunedin, Wednesday. The Bellamy station has been sold for £17,000 to Mr Samuel Henry. Charles Howard, an expressman,- died suddenly at Havelock where he had been earning a precarious livelihood.