PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 171, 19 July 1872, Page 2

PROVINCIAL.

Oajiaru, July 1 9. . The Brig Our Hope, with girders for the Waitaki Bridge, has gone ashore. Wangandi, July 19. Mr.H. C. Maudy has sworn a criminal information alleging perjury by H. B. Koberts, solicitor. Napier, July 19. The schooner Alice is wrecked and gone to pieces; cargo partly saved.

to our laboring population, "but great difficulty was experienced in getting .them on board. The blandishments ot Messrs, Brogdens' employees were lavished upon them, but "bone and muscle" declined altogether to lfave the Paradise of Wellingtcm for the Gehenna of Picton. No sooner were the men shepherded carefully on board by one gangway than they carefully absconded by another, to be re-caught, reshipped, and to again vanish by a promptly extemporised outlet. After a considerable amount of coaxintr and persuasion, the greoter portion of those who had found their way on shore were got on board the Rangatirn, which then went off to the Sehifchallion for those who remained on board, sailing for Picton at half-past two. Fin t al. — Should there be any admirers of the San Francisco mail service who are sanguine enough to entertain the idea that the celebrated Vogel-Duffy contract will be endorsed by the new Victorian Ministry, their hopes, it is to be feared, will be uipped in the bud by the following extract from the Australasian :— It is evident from remarks made in different New Zealand papers on the fall of the Duffy Miuistry as endangering the ratification of the Vogel-Duff? mail contract, that they very much mistake the position of the question here. The Wellington Independent, for instance, does " not think that a change of Government [in Victoria] would necessarily involve a repudiation of the contract." The same journal considers that the objections against the contract were raised merely as v political weapon, but is " inclined to believs that when the subject comes to be seriously discussed under calmer conditions of the political atmosphere, the Assembly will not allow the question of a paltry £5,000 a year to stand in the way." Now, this shows, as we said before, that the state of

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