INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1223, 27 October 1874, Page 4

INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

The Stratlmavcr salvage case came on before the Admiralty Court. The counsel for the plaintiff refused to take evidence on Wednesday, Thursday, and .Friday, as the Judge will be otherwise engaged until the sth of November, and the Court of Appeal commences on the 9th, after which the Judge proceeds to Napier. The case is not expected to be resumed this year. If plaintiff fails to prove his case, £4O per day demurrage will be claimed by defendants, for every day since the arrest of the ship. In consequence of the increase in the price of fat stock, and in anticipation of a rising market, the butchers of Dunedin and Port Chalmers have raised the price of meat one penny per pound. At Macraes Flat, Otago, nine grog shops, licensed and unlicensed, have supplied to the drinking requirements of the eight resident European miners. The number of shanties has been lessened lately by a police raid. The following are the facts of the murder committed at the pah of Paore: Henrietta Tepuni was going from one whare to another, when a native named Newton called her to go with him to his whare. At first she refused to do so, but eventually went with him about two hundred yards from where the young woman's friends lived. A little girl followed and found them sitting on the sward together, in angry altercation. The man was importuning the woman to marry him, - but she would not consent. Soon afterwards the little girl heard the man call out in his native language " The woman's dead." The murderer was at once seized. The body of the woman was literally covered with bruises, but it is conjectured that, as no cuts were found about her body, her neck must have been broken. The natives held an inquest on the body, and returned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner. The woman is about twentyfive years of age, and the prisoner about thirty. He seems quite unconcerned about his position. The Coromandel Mail of the 13th instant says: —"A noted colored disciple of the razor in one of the West Coast towns enlightens the general public as to his profession in the following lucid manner : —By appointment to his Excellency. Professor , physionomical operator, and crinicultural abscission. Phrenological delineator, and professor of the tonsural art of craniological tripsia.' It is said he is fast making a pile, and hopes once more to return to 'Afric's sunny fountains' to enlighten his brethren in the art of money making." Who's do inrlividulum ? Whars do locashun ? The Wanganui Herald says :—What appears to be the perfection of mean- '

ness, if meanness can ever reach that state, is a little bit of money saving effected some time ago by a clergyman residing somewhere between half a mile and 100 miles from VVanganui. This ecclesiastic, at the time mentioned, went to a photographer to have his children's likenesses taken. The photographer glanced at the dresses of the children, and at last his eyes fell on their feet. Their boots were not very new, and through the toes of them the stockings were plaiuly visible. He pointed this out, and assured his customer that it would look bad on the card. There was at first, perhaps it was conscience that caused it, but the mind of the man of the gospel was soon made up. He went to a shoemaker and asked for the best of boots in the shop, and having selected the sizes required, made it a condition that if they did not suit he could return them. He then returned to the photographer's studio, had his children's likenesses taken in the very best of boots, and then returned the latter under the plea that they would not suit. The first-born male child in Queenstown is now eleven years of age. The town was named on New Year's Day, ISG3, by Mr Cameron, who wanted a license for the All Nations Hotel, afterwards opened by him, and who called a meeting for the purpose of naming the town. Many names were proposed, including New York. Standing on the top of Mr Black's anvil, Mr Cameron proposed that the town should receive the name it has since borne. Good Templarism is greatly on the increase on -the goldfields of Otago. The lodge recently established at Arrowtown now numbers 100 members. The cause is also prospering in Cromwell and every other mining township in Otago. The Bruce Herald states that a large wholesalfi wine merchant in Arrowtown does not intend to replenish his stock of spirits, and purposes becoming a Good Templar ! At the Christehurch Criminal Sesssions the Grand Jury did not find a true bill against Captain Crawford, of the ship Cathcart, who was charged with having shot two sailors on the high seas. The charge arose in connection with the decisive action taken by the captain on the occasion of a mutiny on board the vessel. An Otago editor gives a brother quill-driver this first-rate notice:— '• The volcanic, pimple headed, blister brained, owl faced, spike nosed, weasel eyed, web-footed, peg legged, lilipmian, pettifoger, does not like our persona appearance. Until this foul mouthed brazen debaser has been run through a sieve, filtered, scoured, sponged, and disinfected, until the snarling " Intelligent Vagrant" is a fit object to enter decent society, we will forbear having anything to say about him."