INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 247, 9 December 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Chmstciiurch, Thursday. Afc Akaroa Mrs Scarborough, tho wife of a prominent reeident, has been committed for trial at the Supreme Court for aiding aud abetting her niece in throwing boiling water over William I-I. l.ossiter. Tbe Government bave agreed to close all the public offices in Canterbury on the 16th inst, beiog the anniversary of the establishment of the province. There wag au immense attendance yesterday at Cole's circus, which is admittedly the best that was ever here, New Plymouth, Thursday. From private information received by the Taranaki Herald it learns that at Parihaka the natives look upoii the Opunake murder as the act of a dastard. They talk over it far more than if it had been a man who was tbe victim, aud say it is the work of " Ponooga kio *' (a bnd or vile slave.) Tnhi, it wns thought, was not an attendant at th. Parihaka meetings. He may have been two or three times there, but not oftener. The natives are strongly impressed with the notion that Tuhi must have beeu previous to committing the act. A native named Patea was found drowned this morning in a small stream called Mangaone, a tributary of the Waiwakaihu river. The deceased was living at the Waiwakaihu settlement, and during the night was heard by the natives iv the whare where he slept to get up and go outside. ! As he did not return, a search was made at daylight this morning, and his body was discovered in the stream a short distance from the settlement. The deceased was an old man, arid one of the prisoners recently liberated at Dunedin. Napier, Thursday. The Omaranui dispute is now in a fair way of being settled. This morning Mr Sutton went out to interview the old chief Tareha, and after some discussion the following terms were agreed upon:— Tbe natives to give undisputed possession •of Omaranui to Mr Sutton, and the latter to allow them to work their crops now in the ground, and to gather tbe grain when ripe Iv the meantime signatures aro to be obtained to a deed giviug in exchange for Omaranui another piece of land of considerably greater value, tlie value of each block to be assessed by arbitrators, Mr Sutton paying the difference in each case. Although Mr Sutton's men remain in legal possession, be informed the natives that they would not in any way be restricted in the use or occupation of the land, pending a settlement. The only condition he exacts is that every time they want to occupy the pah or go ou the land they shall ask permission from the man in possession. Invercargill, Thursday. From news received it would appear that the Stewart's Island reef is a myth. Acting under pressure, Roper, the prospector, was obliged to open up a tunnel where the leader was said to be buried, and after about twenty shovels of dirt bad been washed a solitary speck of gold waa found, and, although ithe supposed leaders were followed for a considerable distance into the hills, no reef could be found. The specimens found by Roper are proved by experienced miners to be nothing but mundic. The miners are Ireturning. Wellington, Thursday. During the month of November tbe excess of immigration over emigration throughout the colony was 1119, of whom 1052 came from the United Kingdom. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court commenced this morning. There are ill cases set down for hearing. The Chief Justice's charge to the Grand Jury was unimportant, With reference to the murder case he reviewed the evidence which has already been telegraphed and said the question.if the prisoner was in an insane, drunk, or sober state of mind when he committed the act was not a matter for their consideration. John Watson pleaded guilty to attempting suicide. The Judge remanded him for sentence. Charles William Ellison, alias Thompson, pleaded guilty to a charge of house breaking and was remanded for sentence. Stephen Baker, on a charge of attempt to wound was acquitted. The Hinemoa arrived this morning from Opunake with the witnesses in the murder case. [ The Australia with the London mails! of the 4th uit. left Sau Francisco for Auckland od the 21st, being one day earlier than the time-table date. She will be due ou Monday next. The City of Sydney with the November Colonial mails arrived at San . Francisco on the 30th uit., two days in advance of her contract date. j The Grand Jury found a true bill against Tuhi for the Opunake murder. Timaru, Thursday. A child named Powell, uged 4 years, received injuries at Pleasant Point yesterday by its clothes catching fire and is not expected to recover. A young man named Cox jumped from the bridge on to the river bed at Kakahu yesterday to get his riding whip and, landing on his back, was so much injured that fatal consequences are anticipated. Gekymouth, Thursday; A fatal accident occurred tbis morning' to Robert Mcllroy, a well-known storekeeper belonging to tho Seventeen Mile Beach. The deceased was driving some cattle on the beach near Cobden Point when one of the bullocks escaped from the others and in endeavoring to head it, the deceased attempted to cross a small lagoon, when he slipped oif his horse and waa drowned. His body was recovered in about half an hour, but he Was quite dead. The deceased was a native of Belfast, Ireland, and leaves a widow and six children.