INTERPROVENCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 33, 8 February 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVENCIAL.

Christchdbch, Taesday. A house in Sydenharn was burnt this morning. It was insured in the Sun office for £150. On the 4th June last, a son of Dr Rouse of Lyttelton in getting off a tram car fell and had his leg broken by the carriage wheel. The father sued the Company yesterday for £300. The evidence for the plaintiff went to show that the guard told the boy to jump off while the tram was in motion.: This, the guard denied. The engine driver's evidence as to the tram stopping was contradicted. Judgment was given for £100., The boy had been laid up for three months! and stated that his memory is affected by' the accident. ' Yesterday Mr H. Vallance broke his leg while training Huntingdon. : Miss Fidler has commenced a series of, cookery lectures at the Odd Fellows' Hall. I The City Council last night endorsed the ! action of the Mayor in refusing permission ' to Simonsen's Opera Company to give! sacred concerts at the Theatre Royal ou : Sunday evening. The foundation stone of a new Jewish Synagogue will be laid this afternoon. Gisbobne, Monday. The Native Lands Court, presided over by Judges O'Brien and Heale has refused an application to veßfc the freehold of the Ponawa block, about 20,000 acres, in three trustees instead pi the fifty or sixty native

owners who had signed the trast deed lo the three trustees Darned. On the application of Mr JReea a case has besn stated for the Supreme Court and Mr Bees has left for Wellington with the view of getting the points at issue speedily decided as a number of tho Lady Jocelyn'a Belfast immigrants are anxious to settle on the block. DonkMn, Monday. J. F. Jones, licensee of the Grand Pacific Hotel, was drowned whilst bathing in the surf at the Ocean Beach this morning Tuesday; Joues is supposed to have Commuted suicide in consequence of monetary difficulties, the bailiffs having been in the house since Friday. The body has not yet been recovered. At the City Court, Thomson of the Racecourse Hotel waß fined j£s for permitting throwing dice for drinks in a licensed house. Adolph Morison, late clerk in the Standard Insurance Compauy, has been committed for trial on several charges of em* bezzlenieht. Auckland, Tuesday. Rich specimens from the mines in the . Tiki district at Coromandel are likely to cause a rush to that district. The New Zealand Timber Company, which holds a large estate there, has advertised it open for mining leases on most liberal terms. TiMAfttJ, Tuesday. • Thompson, a young man aged 23, who was sentenced at the last sittings of the. Supreme Court for embezzling money belonging to his employer, a storekeeper at Wainiate, was liberated by order of the Minister of Justice this morning being at the point of death from consumption.