INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 164, 12 July 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

"Wellington, Monday. The Inspector of steamers proceeded on board the Te Anau to-day, and suddenly, without warning, rang the alarm bell with a view of testing the efficacy of the arrangements on board the vessel. The result was considered highly satisfactory, several of the boats being manned and launched in a short time. The Government have received the following telegram from Major Mair, the Government agent at Alexandra : — '• Tawbaio and a number of chiefs came in at three o'clock. Tawttaio ordered eighty guns to be laid down before me, and they said that this was an offering in the name of peace. I responded on behalf of the Government. I accepted the guns in the same spirit, and said all the people would now be satisfied of the genuineness of Tawhaio's declaration that there would not be any more trouble." Tuesday. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt here about three this morning. It has been decided to prosecute Simpson the keeper of the hulk, on which the boiler exploded on Sunday week. It ia understood that the grounds are that he neglected to keep the safety valves clear. Richard Bell has been committed for trial for the robbery of £17 from William Hope. During the hearing of Whitelaw's case yesterday Mr Travers raised the point that tbe Mount View Asylum bad not been gazetted under the Lunatics Act, and therefore the indictment could not lie for an offence under the statute. The Crown Prosecutor admitted the non-pioclamation, and the Judge said he thought the point fatal on the counts for an offence under the statute. The third count for common assault remained, and the jury should convict on it if they found tbat tha act committed waa in excess of authority. On the Court resuming thie morning the jury, who had been locked up all . night, stated that there was no chance of their agreeing and they were discharged. The Crown Prosecutor applitd for a new trial. The counsel for the prisoner asked who was to pay for the second special jury. Judge Richmond said as a matter of law it should fall on the prisoner, but he thought it would, under the circumstances, be graceful on the part of the Crown to pay the costs. The Crown Prosecutor said he wonld represent the matter to the Government and endeavor to get them to pay the £12. The Judge asked the Crown Prosecutor if he thought he could get over the non-proclamation of the Asylum, as otherwise the charge would he me_ely one of common assault. Mr Iz3rd replied that he could not. A new trial by special jury was then ordered for Thursday the 21st inst. The prisoner was released on the same bail. Dunedin, Monday. Two hundred children had measles in the Industrial School, one hundred and fifty being in bed at one time. Only one death occurred. T .. Tueaday. in the case of M. Simonsen v Joseph Solomon for breach of promise the defendant appeared and said he was, &nd always had

heen, prepared to fulfil his promise. The plaintiff's counsel taid this was the first they had heard of such a thing and the plaintiff pressed for the only reparation possible in the circumstances. The Jury returned a verdict for £125. Chbistchtjkch, Tuesday. Mr William Montgomery, M.H.R., has been unanimously elected Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College. A tell-tale has been placed at the entrance to the Museum to obtain a correct record of the number of visitors. The number is increasing daily. Forty members have joined the Ashburton Hunt Club. Forty-one applications Were received by the agent at home for tbe mastership of the Canterbury School of Arts. The Board of Governors expect to receive the nam. of the appointee by the next mail, and it is hoped the school will open at an early date. At the half yearly meeting of tbe friends of the Labor Loan Society thia evening the report showed 286 members holding 854 shares. JThe capital of the Society now amounts to £5,690, and during tbe half year £2,274 had been granted in loans to members. The profit amounted to £450, and a dividend of 7| per cent wa3 declared. Blenheim Tueaday. The body found on the bank of the Waihopai River on Sunday has been discovered to be that of Charles Fleming Nicholson, the head shepherd. Auckland, Tuesday. Major Paul died suddenly last night between 10 and 11 o'clock at' the Northern Club. The deceased gentleman arrived by the Penguin from Wellington yesterday morning en route for Waiwera in the hope that a course of baths would afford him relief from asthma; He was staying at the Club and on retiring to his room last night desired the attendant to bring bim a basin of hot water witb tbe intention of inhaling the fumes. The act of inhalation had affected bis lungs and finding that something had gone wrong he opened the door to call assistance and fell forward on his face dying instantaneously. Drs Munro and Honeyman happened to be in the Ciub at tbe time and their services were invoked, but in vain, as he had burst a blood vessel and died of internal hemorrhage. The deceased gentle man was formerly in the 65th Regiment and settled subsequently at Wellington, and on the retirement of Dr Greenwood was appointed Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, but subsequently resigned. The^ Government are in a difficulty by the resignation of the loeal Board of Health and are negoiiating to induce them to resume office with enlarged powers. The passengers for Sydney by the Penguin complain iu the Herald of the action of the Union Company in transferring them from the Ringarooma and bringing them here, leaving them without any vessel to take them on. The Albion is not advertised to go till Friday and may be detained here in quarantine, leaving sixty or seventy passengers without means in a strange place.