INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 196, 18 August 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Donediw, Thursday. The Committee of the Beneyolent Institution have received a donation of £300 to establish an Orphan Asylum In connection with the Institution. Wellington, Wednesday. At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day the steamer Stormbird larceny case was gone into. Prisoner Salmon was ad mi; ted as Queen's evidence. A.Btrong case was made out against Williams and Green, who wer« committed for trial. M'C»rry, the cook, wae discharged before the proceedings cerminaUd, Salmon was formerly charged with larceny, but the police declined to offer evidence, and he wag discharged. Thursday His Excellency will embark on tba Emerald L<r Fiji at Auckland. Sh« ie expected to arrive at Auckland about the iecond week in September. At the Magistrate 1 ! Cou»4, Christina Wilion, an old offender, was sentenced to two years bard labour on two charges of larceny from St. M*ry« Cathedr»l. Auckland, Thursday. There is little doubt that tba resssl reported by the Nativeo as wrecked on the coast a few miles south of Kaipara Headi ii the schooner Rona which usually traded to Lyttelton. She left Auckland iv ballast on the Ist inst., and wa9 duo at Kaipara quite a week ago. Further particular! received today state that the Maoris »ay there are yard*, blocks, and one anchor upon the beach, and the vessel is buried in the sand all over her copper. The Rona wag commanded by Captain Renetti McKenzie, the half owner, who has had charge of the vessel since ehe was built two and a half yeara ego. He has i a wife and four children residing at Oamaru. The names of the crew are Robert Smith, Neil Carmicbael, Charles Johnson, and Eagle. Tho vessel was insured for £400, only about half her value. Mr D. IX. McKeozia owns a half interesf. The suicide of Arthur Craig at Church Hill was a very determined one. About < half past two on Monday morning the neighbors were alarn-ed by the screaming of the deceased's young children and an alarm of fire, and on entering the house found that Craig had tied his feet to a colonial sofa on which he was lying, and had set fire to a quantity of tow he had collected upon him. They tried to pull him from the couch but ha resisted strongly, holding the wooden bars at the head so that they broke away with him. He was then got from the burning couch and laid on the floor which is even charred where he lay. Craig died at 9 o'clock on Monday before Dr Edglow arrived from Hamilton. Deceased was a widower, having a married daughter living in Auckland, and another daughter 17 years old living in seryice. Several younger children lived with him in his house. New PtTMODTn, Thursday A meatiig wbb held at Waitara Ja»t evening fey the purpose of considering ttra

present state of the harbor question, especially as to the report of the Parliamentary committee on the New Plymouth harbor, when the following (which was an amendment to a resolution) was carried by four fifths of those present " That the colony has pledged itself to carrying out the New Plymouth harbor works and upon the faith of the pledge many persons have settled and invested in the district both in the purchase of Crown land and otherwise, and this ffleetiugis.of opinion that the stoppage of the harbor works would be a grosß violation of public faith guaranteed by legislative enactment and would inflict an injury on the whole district." At the meeting, which was the largest ever held at Waitara, there were persons from all portions of the provincial district, and the matter was fully discussed, when it was conclusirely shown that the figures quoted in the Parliamentary rtport were wrong, arid amongst other things it was stated that in six weeks' time the cement for the works, which is expected to arrive in Wellington from England, can be landed at the breakwater, then completed, by vesseh of Small draught ; also that with the plant now on the ground the breakwater can be extended to 21 feet of water at low spring tide for the money now in hand. The present superintendent of works was engaged on the Aberdeeu breakwater, and also successfully built the one at Arbroath, and before leaving the latter place was presented with a valuable testimonial for the successful manner he carried oufc the works, and therefore speaks from experience. He states that the work can be done for the money. The harbormaster says that for 300 days out of the year vessels can lie alongside the wharf. Oamaru, Thursday. A case of brutal illtreatment of a \,ll" has just come to light here. Briefly stated the I facts are that the unfortunate woman, whose name is Isabella Augustus, wife of a Swede named Charles Augustus, was Confined, and for several days her husband refused to permit her to call in a do'etof, or to allow he* any assistance. This conduct, coupled with threats upon her life, waa continued until Tuesday last, when the case of the unfortunate woman became knownj and she was removed to the Hospital, and there found to be in a critical condition. Information was at once laid against Augustus, and he was arrested yesterday oh a charge of assault; Aa seriom doubts are entertained of the woman's recovery, her depositions were taken at tbe Hospital last evening, and disclosed a course of brutal illtreatment. Augustus will be bi ought up this afternoon.