INTERPROVINCIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 163, 10 July 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

[PRESS AQEHOY.I :W»n_tNOTo.i, Wednesday night. It is reported on good authority that Mr Oliver, the member for Dunedin, is about to join the Ministry. It is understood that the Government will next session reimpose the duties on grain and timber. The Imperial Opera House is not to be rebuilt. Mr J. C. Toxward, arcbitect, succeeds tbe late Sir Donald M'Lean as District Grand Master of the Eoglish Freemasons of the North Island. A private letter from the Front says that Te Whiti will be the nsxt to hold tbe plough. Some Swedish turnips and mangolds grown at Manawatu were exhibited in a greengrocer's sbop to-day. They weighed from 14 to 191bs. The Pott says that tbe speech at the opening ol Parliament will be very concise, but will still contain a declaration of tbe Ministerial policy sufficiently clear and explicit to entitle Ministers to claim a bearing on its Merits,

It is understood that the Commissioners who will open Parliament will be Sir W. Fitzherbert, Col. Whitmore, and Sir F.Dillon Bell. Mr Seymour will be put up against Mr Bunny, the Government candidate, for the Chairmanship of Committees. Mr Gisborne is to be appointed Minister of Mines. A free Bible School villi be opeued on the 21st instant. The steamer Patea an ived with another batch of Maori prisoners. Thursday. The break in the cable is believed to be about 380 miles from Port Darwin. It is hoped that, if all goes well, the cable will be repaired by Sunday. A steamer with telegrams is expected at Port Darwin on Thursday or Friday. Mr Thomas reports Adelaide flour £14 and firm at quotations, Colonial 10s £9 to £10; cats 2s !0d to 3s; bran 10d 5 wheat 4s; hams 9£d; bacon B.}d, cheese 8d; maize 4s 9d; pollard £7} potatoes £5 10s, this being an advance of 10s per ton; butter lid. It is understood that arrangements have been nearly completed with tbe Union S.S. Company to rnn an extra boat weekly during the session for a subsidy of £1000. Twenty-four more Maori prisoners landed here tbis morning. The Constabulary barracks being overstocked, fresh quarters have been obtained. Of the Maoris iv custody yesterday, thirty-five are from friendly tribes and twenty- s : x from the rebel section. CurisTcuuHCH, Thursday. A row occurred yesterday in the Britannia Hotel betwen two men named Gear and Physicks. The latter knocked Gear down for insulting him and in falling he broke his leg. He was taken to the hospital. A meeting of tradesmen has been held to consider tbe question of fostering colonial industries by imposiug extra duty on imported manufactures. An effort will be made to bring tbe matter under the consideration of Parliament. Dunedin, Thursday. Andrew Murray, manager for Kirkpatrick and Glendinniug bas been charged with committing a rape on his own daughter aged 12 years. The prisoner is a widower. Captain Baldwin will not contest the seat for the city. Stewart's chance of election is considered favorable. He announces himself an opponent to the Government. ■Murray has been committed for trial. He was in receipt of a salary of £400 a year. Tbe Magistrate refused bail until steps could be taken for vesting the custody of the child in some suitable guardian. Hawera, Thursday. All is quiet, and is expected to be so until after the Parihaka meeting. The settlers last night appointed Messrs Lysaght and M'Guire to wait on the Government re local affairs. Reinforcements of Armed are wanted. People are leaving the district daily. Many of them are Volnnteers.