INTERPROVINCIAL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4175, 8 December 1884, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

* [from our 'own CORRESPONDENT.] r ' Weijcingto'S', ! Saturday. - The''regulations under which the first election• of cahdidate's'for tho Central Ink surance Board .will be conducted will be as follows:—The nominations are to be signed by two policy-holders, who are to give the numbers of their policies, and also by the candidate', who must >. sign the nomination paper as consenting party; The nominations aro to be in by the 20th December, and tho : 'election'take's place on the 7th January, 'at 10- o'clock in tho forenoon. Major Campbell, clork;of Parliaments, is to act as returning officer, and at 10 o'clock -id the forenoon of the day named will proceed to examine the voting papers, in order to ascertain the total number of votes for - each candidate. The voter is to have, one ..Vote only, no matter how many : policies he : may hold, and shall erase the names of all ■ifhe candidates for whom he does not. desire to vote, and shall-sign the voting paper adding' the number : of: .the policy which < entitles him tb; voteiin the presence of at , loaaf two .witnesses. If more than three Emmies are left unerased the voting paper "wlll'bedeemed- informal. No voting by •- mosv will be permitted,: and : when signed -the'voting papers are jto lie addressed tj the •presiding.:. officer, .Government office, Wellington: After_aßcertaining tho n_oh<Jr>x)f yotes. fpr ,each the presiding officer shall acquaint the Colonial

Treasurer with the result of the election, and-the same shall be duly gazetted. H two or more candidates should poll an equal . number ef votes the Governor... may thereupon exercise the powers, conferred .on him by the;ninth section of the Act. With respect to directors to be elected, voting papers arc-to be immediately transmitted to district and resident agents of the insurance department, and to all postmasters who are acting; as agents of the department, to be by them furnished to all. voters who may apply for them. Notice of the intention to hold an election of three to the Board shall be advertised at least five days before the . day of nomination in at least one newspaper, published and circulating in the principal towns of the colony. This notice shall state the day of election, and the date up to which and place at which nominations of candidates will, be received.

[Per United Press Association.]

■New Plymouth, This day. A bird which proved to be an English swift was shot at the White Cliffs, there were three others with it. No birds of this species have been imported here, and information is solicited as to whether they have been seen elsewhere. Auckland, This day.

Tho Hon. Mr Tole has received _ a telegram from the Native Minister stating that Kawhia is included in the Kingite territory in which the sale of drink will be prohibited, and Mr Tole has so informed a temperance deputation which waited on him. Wellington, This day.

Mr H. Welsh, a farmer of Opake, met with a serious accident at Feathorston on Saturday night. As the train was leaving he attempted to pass from one carriage platform to another, when he fell and the train passed over him. Very little hopes arc entertained of his recovery. Later. Mr Welsh succumbed to his injuries today. The passengers of the steamer Wakatipu, which arrived from Sydney yesterday afternoon, presented Captain Wheeler with an illuminated address before his leaving the vessel on leave of absence. Henry Lewis alius Heyman, tbe hangman, was to-day charged with unlawfully proposing to commit murder. The outrage is brought on the information of ■ a Maori named Pokane Hapueru, who is at present in gaol on remand charged in conjunction with.Lewis with burglary. The Maori will accuse Lewis of suggesting that they should rob the premises.of a watchmaker in Cuba street, a Mr. Campbell, a Chinaman. The Maori states they were to visit the watchmaker's shop during the day on some trifling pretext, the real object being to become acquainted with the premises. Lewis is stated to have arranged that the Maori should, in the,event of resistance, murder the shopkeeper. Lewis has been remanded till Friday. " " . . ■ The twelve hours' walking match on Saturday between Crofts and retteng^el was won by the former by nine miles. The distance covered by the winner was 67 miles. The Waring Taylor cases were again before the Magistrate's Court on Saturday. The accused surrendered to his bail on the various charges of fraud preferred against him, but, in accordance with the understanding arrived at when the matter was previously before the Court, none' of the cases were gone into, an adjournment till Tuesday being obtained. The accused was admitted to bail. ;

The Government. arc taking eveiy precaution with tho view of preventing the introduction of small-pox into the colony. The question of quaranting all vessels arriving from New South Wales has been discussed, but the Union Company having reported that a most minute examination was made of all passengers leaving Australia by their "steamers, and also that medical officers were earned on board the steamers, it is understood that the present regulations will not be disturbed. The Government are advised by the health authorities in Sydney that every endeavor is being made thereto stamp out tho disease, and that localities where any new cases are reported are at once quarantined

Reefton, This day.

.Mr A S. Menteath, the representative for Inangahua, addressed a crowded meeting atßeefton on Saturday evening, and spoke nearly two hours. The speech on the whole being hostile to the Government. He received a vote of thanks and confidence.

Dunedin, This day. A child named Mackie, was drowned at Mosgiel yesterday by falling into a creek., ' A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited on the Premier this morning in. reference to the unsatisfactory working of: the Customs tariff. Mr, Stout replied that the matters would be looked into next session, but at present no effort would be made, to equalise duties. The two prisoners, White and Crowley, were brought up at Outram on Saturday, and charged with the murder of William Meldrum. Tho case was adjourned pending the inquest. This was held in the afternoon. The medical evidence showed that death had resulted from bleeding, from the knifo wounds. In cross-examination by Mr Denniston, Dr M'Can said that if proper appliances had been at hand an hour after the occurrence the man's life, could probably have been saved. White; and Fitzgerald, the latter being still at large, were boarders with Meldrum. Evi-. dence was given by Mrs Meldrum and some navvies as to hearing remarks ; during the quarrel by one or other of the three meu that- they would kill Meldrum, and if they had a knife they would cut his throat. They were all in drink. Fitzgerald was known on the works as Garrett. It is not known exactly how the row began. It seems that a woman named Burke was in Outram a day or two before, and complained that Meldrum had cut her on tho head, and was heard to say that she would get "some of tho boys to go for Meldrum." Fitzgorald made the remark during the evening, when a number of men were playing cards in Meldrum's, that he was Irish, and meant to have a row. The result of the inquest on Meldrum was a verdict of wilful murder against the three men Laurence ,i White, Thomas Crowley, and George Fitzgerald. Word) has been received by the police of Fitzgerald having been seen at a place called Clark's Flat. He left Newthorno with the avowed intention of going to Dunedm to tell the police all about tho affair and give himself up, but evidently changed his mind on, the road. ~..."... Christchurch, This day. John G. Watkin, a well known builder and contractor, has been arrested by Detective T. Neil, charged with forging and uttering a. promissory note on tho Bank of New Zealand, for £21 19s lid purporting to be signed by .John Bennett, storeman at Messrs Taylor and.Co.'s. _,A gallant,, rescue occurred on the river Avon yesterday afternoon. A boy named Nelson, 15 years old, though unable to swim, jumped in and saved a little girl named Scaudreto, 7 years old, who : had fallen off the Montreal-street bridge into deep water. Herman H. Mouton, who was sentenced some 18 months ago to 8 years' imprisonment for several forgeries,; died in the hospitallast night from heart disease.