INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4541, 3 December 1889, Page 3

INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

(BT XZIECBAPH. ) WELLINGTON. December 2. Is ia stated th*t Major News;!, tho present adjutant cf the Canterbury district, ia to ba removed to Wellington, where he will act as chief in th-J Defence OfSc*?, and bold tho c f acting-adjutant of the Wellington dlstric'. M»jor Newalt Is to be succeeded &s adjutant of tba Canterbury district by Major Webb, of Nelsor., and the Nelson and WeatUnd volunteers are to bo lefc without an adjutant. The Mayor of Wellington, who isat Dunedin, wires to tho clerk, that his Excellency, who is also endeavoring to arrange that the other Australian Governors, who intend to visit the Exhibition, should ba in Wellington on the 22 d prox., when the jubilee cf tho colony will be celebrated. At the Supreme Court, Thomas I». Gambrill, charged with wilfully "bootleg a cow, the property of hts neighbor, waa acquitted. A further charge has yet to be haaid to-motrow. Bontilller waa acquitted oo a charge of breaking and outerlug at Ot»H. DUNEDLN. D.cambar 2. Tho return from the WaJpaoapa Dredging Company for the past week is 136-zi. amalgam. Dumber 3. The Jadgo's charge to tho Grand Jary merely dealt with the cases of John Rw, who pleaded goilty of indecent assmlt and whose seofeace was deferred and of Alfred Hendrlcksen, who pleaded guilty of larceny and was acquitted. At the Conference of representatives from the Metropolitan Ricing Clubs, on Mr M'Lean'a motion to alter rule 22, the voting waa Ayeff, Messrs M'L?an and Gonrley ; noes, delegates of C Auckland, Wanganui, Hawke'a B»y, opd Greymontb. In cocseqnonw of this de cblon the proposed motion against limiting the amount of stakes to be given for one day's meeting in auy year to LIOQ was not put. Mr Stead's motion, referring to soother conference the question of dealing with defaulters was carried : Ayes Auckland, Wanganui, and Christchurch ; noaa —Dunedin and Greymontb. William Cornerford, for larceny of L 283 of postal moneys at Naaeby, waa sentenced to two yeara' hard labor. Charles Lisurer, for stealing L4O out of a hotel, waa sentenced to six months. Thirty-four out of the 35 who entered for the Exhibition pigeon shooting match contested to-day at Cjrisbrook. The weather was excolleot. At the end of the fifth round the following killed all their birdsF. Redwood, Hill, Bennetts, H. Redwood, Lunn, Edwards, Mason, Cowie, and Dabble. Mr Gollaa was asked, on behalf of a well-known Now South Wales sportsman, to pnt a price on Tirailleur, but ho declined to part with the colt. The stewards of the Taleri Jcckey Club have satisfactory evidence that the trotter Barney, which wen the principal trotting event on the lltb November ia Double Hill. In a letter to the Pr=M Mr Roberta says that tba entire cost nf the Exhibition buildings wa3 L 30.000, which ia considerably under the estimate. To-day witnessed a great exodn3 of visitors, tha steamers and trains being crowded. Tha Harbor Beard paid a vist of Inspection today to the Heads works. The party included many distinguished visitors.

AUCKLAND. December 2. The prospects obtained from ret fa not a hundred miles from the prospectors claim at Pohipuhl are really good, and expected to open the eyes of the most aceDtical. Tho following wire was sent to the' Minister for Mines"No excuse can be accepted foe granting leases to prospectors which virtually gives a monopoly, ss the Land Department at Auckland threaten proceedings against all others as trespassers, though they may have applied for licenjes. The public aro incensed, and the position is very unsatls. factory. The heavy nor'-enaterly galo continues. Fred Dnfaur, of Gisborne, was drowned In the harbor this morning while going over to his yacht. The body was washed ashore.

NEW PLYMOUTH. December 3. A sudden death occurred last night. William Parkins, Wortley Road, near Inglewood, waa beard to moan during the night by his wife, who got np, lit a candle, and found her husband dead. TIMARU. December 3. The Timara Preabytery to-day accepted tho resignation of the Bar. G. Barclay, of Garaldiap, the pioneer Presbyterian minister of South Canterbury, where ho baa been for 25 years. The reasons he gives are overwork in too largo a district.