INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 220, 16 September 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Thursday. Captain Malcolm iv giving evidence before the Nautical Court yesterday in the iuqi iry. into the collision near Manukau Heads on the 31st August between the Taiaroa and Hinemoa said that the Taiaroa was kept on her usual course, and that the Hinemoa should have passed him on the port side. He mentioned that the helm was steadied to give the Hinemoa room. The Court gave judgment this morning to the effect that the conduct of both captains added to the cause of the collision, and that Captain Faircbild Bh<u!d not have attempted to pass the Taiaroa at Cape Horn, also that the collision might have been averted if Captain Malcolm had steadied the helm of the Taiaroa a little sooner. The Bench did not thick it a case! where it was necessary, to cancel or suspend the certificates of either captain. ; Arrived : Hero from Auckland via Lyttelton. During the pxssage from the latter port Mrs Morris, a uassenger who booked at Auckland, died from the effects of seaBicknesa. ; At the inquest on the body of Daniel Sullivan found in the harbor yesterday a verdict was returned of " found drowned." * CmusTCiimtcn, Thursday. At Chinnery's flaxworks at Eangiora this morning a boy named William Dunning, while feeding the machine, had his righfc arm 1 dragged in and fearfully mutilated. Amputation was imperative. The draughts match between Reid, the champion of Otago, and Boawell, of Christ-, church, ended in a draw, each winning seven games, and six were dray n Timaru, Thursday. \ John Lushman has been remanded td Christchurch on a charge of garrotting a man in June and robbing him of his watch. The watch had been sold in Timaru, aud Lushuiari was. traced to Green Island, where he was arrested. . > Auckland, "Thursday. ; Mr Macfarlane, trustee in bankruptcy, was nonsuited in the District Court, on his claim against M'Gee to recover £100, the value of the Ake-ake filly, w hich. he alleged was the property of Brennan's bankrupt estate. j Mr Murdoch, general manager of the Bank; of New Zealand, returned from Fiji yester-' day. „ . j Among the New Zealand passengers by the' Sorata was Mr M'Kay Thompson. , Inspector Pardy has made another seizure] of smuggled goods. A man named Jacob; Senft landed at Lyttelton with £300 worthof jewellery from Sydney, and evaded thei Customs there, and sold portions at Christ-! church, Wellington, West Coast, aud Nelson,; and was selling the balance in Auckland,where the police made the seizure. The goods smuggled were valued at £150 at, the wholesale price. A penalty of £100 and' the forfeiture of the articles and. cots were j enforced. • A horsewhipping case came before the' Court to-day. Captain Kerr, who whipped Dr Smith, was fined £5 , and bound over to keep the peace, •-- ------ - - ; Dunedin, Thursday. ! At the police Court to-day, Eobert An-I drew Dunb, Secretary of the Hibernian j Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, was; charged with having on or about the Ist! April failed to furnish the Registrar of; Friendly Societies (1) with a return of, cards ! issued to every person who had joined the; Society as a benefit member during the year: ending 31st March, 1879 ; (2) with a general statement of receipts aud expenditure of the > funds and effects for the year ended 31st; December, 1879 ; and (3) with a return of j sickness, mortality, and other contingencies experienced during the year ended 31st December, 1879. .On the" application of the defendant's solicitor the case was adjourned for ore week. ■ . ■' A fire at Caversbam at midnight totally destroyed a ten-roomed brick building occupied by Neame, chemist, Macintosh, a dealer, and j two other families. The fire started in! Neatne's shop, from which nothing was saved, but a good deal was saved from Macintosh's. ! Neame was insured for £250 in the National,! and Macintosh in the South British for £50. ! The building belongs to Hocken and -Hardy, j and was insured in the Standard for £500, and in the New Zealand for £200. A fire occurred at Neame's a few months ago.