INTERPROVINCIAL.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 319, 21 June 1875, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Jun 19. The reply from Loxd Carnarvon to Sir Geoige Giey’s petition re the Land Funds and Provincial Abolition has been forwarded from Wellington, having been transmitted through ihe Marquis of Normanby. Lord Carnarvon says—“ You will have the goodness to cause Sir George Grey to be informed that I have read both his petitions with the attention due to any communication from him: and while I differ very widely from many of his views and opinions to which he has given expression, I do not think it desirable to enter into any detailed examination of his representations, for the single reason that they relate to matters in respect to which I do not think there should be any pretence for her Majesty’s Government to have influenced or interfered with the decision of the Colonial Legislature. I have, as at present advised, no intention of applying to Parliament for any legislation on the subject of the Provincial institutions or the Crown lands of New Zealand, and no suggestion that such legislation is necessary or desirable has been made to me by or on behalf of the Government of the colony, or from any other quarter. These are subjects which the General Assembly of. New Zealand is, in my opinion, quite competent to discuss ; as indeed, has already been very fully and ably done in the debate in the House of Representatives which terminated in August last, and which I have perused with interest,” The Cyphrenes sailed between 4 and 5 p.m. She carries 12 saloon passengers from Auckland, and among them Miss Christian. Dunedin, June 19. Edwards has completed his task of walking 100 miles in twenty-four hours, in fivemiuutes under time. He finished fresh. The Provincial Council was prorogued today. The first sod of the Kaitangatu railway was turned by Sir John Richardson yesterday. \ large number of persons were present, including the Right Rev Bishop Neville. Mr J, L. Gillies, chairman of the Ward Chapman inquiry committee, writes to the papers this morning, and states that Mr 'mith’s attack on Mr Macassey was uncalled for. He says he cannot disclose the evidence taken by the committee, but one thing is <ure, which is, that Mr Macassey will have to cause to regret this inquiry. Mr Macassey answers Mr Smith, and ascribes his action to professional jealousy ; he declines to eater into a contest with himi