INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 77, 31 March 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

DoNEriiNj Thursday. The Land Board, on the casting vote of the Chief Cotnmießioner, granted the Ca&well Sound Marble Company a se"ven years' license of the quarry over 320 acres. The Company npplied for the area by meanfi of four applications put ia hf that number of shareholders, each for 80 acres, the maximum allowed to be leased to one individual by the ' Ijand Act, and it was on the ground that j they did not oonsider it legal to grant more than 80 acree to the Conipany, that three of the members of the Board recorded their dissent from the decision. At fc'ie sale of Mr Goodman's stud to-day, Sylvanus was sold tb Mi? M'Gavin fot TO guineas, Titania for 78 guiueaa to Mr James , Sband, Chancellor tor 60 guineas to Mr M'Gavin, and Le Loup for 375 guineas to Mr Snider. Tauranga, Thursday. A celebrated ehemisb of Melbourne has been sent over by Melbourne capitalists to i inspect the sulphur at White Island afld repott whether it will be advisable to effect $ chemical manufactory for the preparation of sulphuric acid and chemical manure. Mr Mclvor has returned and ia favorably impressed with the resources of the Island, and considers that a very important industry can be maintained. Wilson's sulphur works at I Tauranga will be takeU over and improved. J New quartz has been found at Kaimai about 88 miles f iom T'aurangtiv HoKiTikA, Thursday. . The trial of David Hutcheaon, for the murder of his wife at Kanieri, was resumed yesterday morning at the Supreme Court. The evidence showed that the prisoner had Bayed a gun and a bag of provisions from the burning house and that he had hold of his' wife's leg but did not save her. The Judge summed up in the prisoner's favor. The jury retired at seven, and at one o'clock in the morning brought in a verdict of not guilty, A nolle prostqiti will be entered on the second indictment, Cjytßisi^HUHCH, Thursday. A fire occurred last night in Cunningham and Co.'B buildicg3 at the corner of Manchester and Licbfleld-streets. It commenced in an unoccupied part of the premises. The origin is unknown. The damage ia about £1000, fully covered by insurances in the London Liverpool and Globe, South British, and National offices!.