INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 7, 8 January 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

1 AucktAKi), Friday. t lii the case of Profesior Swallorr'i bankruptcy, MrJSoftmaD, a toueic seller, wai obliged to surrender to the trustees a valuable harp bought from biui but never paid for. A warrant waa issued to-day fbr tke attest of John Parcel), a bankrupt contractor, wbo was suspected of intentions to levant. The Rev. Mr McNieol left for Dunedin today to represent Auckland in tbe Presbytery ac the Otago Synod, with the special object of advocating tbe amalgamation of tbe general assembly ox the Northern Presbyterian Church and Otago Synod. Tbe followiog are the principal winners in the settling for the Auckland Jtaciug.Club's late meeting:— John Smith> £291; Farmer, £109 5 Waltfets, £320 ; Gallagher, £66 ; Sutler, £150; Lance, £332 ; Hunt, £190; Lunn, £66; Allan M'Donald, £184; Walmsley, iir*. The Lady JoCetyti has al-rived frotti Tauranga*, Wi.h tbe balance -of her inifoigrants, about ifeo ih number. Mr M Dargarville has oftered to guide tbem to the Crown Lands in the North suitable for settlement if tbey desire if. r The body of a man, greatly decomposed, waa found on the beach at the South Hedds, Kaipara. It is believed to fee the remains of one of the bbfe^ oi the wrecked brigantine James A. Stewart. , Robert Hob; broker, died frotirthe effects oi an injury received tVhile -jumping recently from tile neck of tbe s.s. Kotorua on to the Queen-street Wharf. A gum digger, name.l Nicholson, committed suicide owing to his but beiug burnt down, destroying a sum of money and a quanlity of gum. At a public meeting held in connection with the Good Templar Conference, addresses were giVen by S. Hemus Speight, M.H.R, aud Mr Price of Welliugtop. WEtLiNxojr, Friday; IIU Excellency leaves for Manukau this evening. Mr Rolleston will be tbe Minister in attendance during his tour of the North Island. The case of Wharepa, tb.3 Chatham Island murderer, is now under consideration of the Executive. Tbe Premier and Native Minister returned from South to-day. Saturday. Mr Rollestpn does pot acQotapany "the Governor on his tout ih the North Island. The Hon Mr Dick accompanies His Excellency as far as Aucklaud, where he (Mr Dick) meets the San Francisco mail boat, and proceeds to Sydney to represent New Zealand at the Intercoloninl Confererence to be held there this month. A man named J. W. Jordan, formerly clerk in the Legislative Council;, wa& found dead outside tha Railway Hotel, JLoWer Hutt, at S o'clcck this tborning. Jordau was last seeu alive lait nigbt at the hotel, when he was under the influence of liquor The landlord hud him put to bed and locked the door. It is supposed that Jordan attempted to get out the window, when he fell and waa killed, hii neck being broken* The deceased recently recsived £?00, and bad been drinking heavily of late. CHhiSTCHOR-cfr, Saturday. The notorious Mtch&el Miirphy waa found gUilty oh a ctiar&a o" perjury to-day at tbe Suptethe Court, and sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labor. Watt, who was charged with him, and who had been three months in goal, pleaded guilty, and got six months, Kennelberfir, the jockey ftho *as severely injured at Rangiora has tecoved consciousness and ib nbw expected to get rbund. Patrick Cane*, keeper o*f a boarding house, was charged with selling liquor without a license ans fiued £50 on two charges. WESTront, Friday. Nearly all f.ho tiublioanß in toVm were prosecuted to-Bay for permitting their houses to remain open after eleven o'clock on New Year's Eve. In the majority of tho cases fines were inflicted. Chableston, Saturday. Great consternation has been caused through the Warden's ruling in ordering the Ctoninville miners, at the suit bf a farmer on Totara River uained Ifostello, to cease sluicing their tailings into that river. This practically debars fifty miners from workiug their claims. A public meeting will bo held to-night to consider the situatioa.