PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 184, 3 August 1872, Page 2

PROVINCIAL.

■•'■**-. ". :-. " " ; "T " Auckland,; August 2. .,! Another case of smallpox thaa occurred in a man name^ Purdy> iwhoiwaa;; .conveyed^ to Itfie. pesthouse to-day. 7 Hehad Tvacciriated, and is only, atta^e&i^^ , ,_

A Rechabite Tent is to bo established iv Christchtirch...,. A public meeting for the purposs;iwas"h}eJd on Wednesday^M?. '• iAllfrfll io|the chair. ' |1 % restoration o| the "confiscated lauds was receutly brought before the House by Mr Parala, who nt least advanced some novel arguments iv favor of his proposal. The House, however, could not agree with him, and a division being called, many members rose to leave the .hall, when Para ta paid, "I will not press a division. I see European members leaving the House. If they do so, when the Maori members: are in • a difficulty, wo shall leave the House when ; they want us." A Ratiier Singular Case of window breaking occurred in Wellington lately. A mob of sheep were being driven.up the Bench, • and when opposite - Mr. Cohen's shop, at the corner of Harbor-street, a wether, tired of. the control of , the shepherd and his dog,. made a sudden b.olf, arid, ns the readiest moans of escape l which presented itself, "jumped -through Mr Cohen's plate-glass window. He alighted safely behind the counter in the midst of a shower of glass,- having cleared the "goods displayed in the window. Here he remained in charge until arrested by tho shepherd and dragged forth by the hind leg. Last evening a little animation was infused into" the dull proceedings of the House by Mr Shephard's motion respecting the celebrated Chinese question. Mr Ormond seriously damaged his reputation for honesty by saying tbat although the circular wati issued, and Superintendents were asked for their opinions, yet the Government had decided to ignore those opinions, and not to allow the introduction of Chinese labor. It is not too much to say that nobody believed him, and so his explanation only made matters worse by giving a direct insult to the Superintendents. The Hous<\ however, ns Mr Macandrevv said, believed that though Ministers had made a gross blunder in issuing the circular, yet the matter w r as old cow, and so Mr Shephard's motion of censure was negatived. — Post. The following'appears in the Wellington Evening Post:-*-" ,The value of land in Canterbury has been rising in an extraordinary degree during tbe last twelve months. A private letter recently received from" Christchurch says : — ' Property here lately unsaleable now' readily changes hands at double its late value, and town lands have gone up at least 200 per cent. — lately sold the fifth of a quarter-acre at the corner where the fire was, next Jacobs and Isaacs, for £700 ; and yesterday I learn £3000 was offered for Wilkin's half-acre in Hereford-street, with tbe old repository on it, and the offer was refused ; also, a few days ago, Dr. Turnbull sold about a quarler-acre in the paddock in Worcester-street, for £500 — this, twelve months ago, would not have sold at £100. Other sales, both in town and country, are nearly in like proportion.'" . New Zealand Railways. — Mr Brogden's proposal for the construction of a system of railways may be summarised as ■ follows: — Two continuous lines to be constructed ■ — one in the North Island, from Wellington, via Wairarapa, Manawatu Gorge, Wanganui, and Taranaki, with ultimate extensionto join the line from Auckland, via Cambridge, the junction ;to; be effected as. ■> soon [as .political circumstances would permit — the other to be in' the Middle Island, from Invercargill, via Dunedin, Oamaru_, Timaru, and Chrislehurcb, to Waiaui; up that river to the Hope branch and down by the Ahaura to Greymouth ; /thence, south to Eoss, and Dorth to^Reeftou, wjth ultimate extension to Nelson and Picton; the Company tq purchase all existing; lines in Both islands, including the Lyttelton and Christchurch line, at a valuation not exceeding the original cost, and all the plant at a valuation. Provisions to.be made for further extension when required by Government. The cost of the lines not to exceed T :£8000-per mile, "including rolling stock. : The guarantee is to be 5§ per cent oa the capital expended , for a period of 40 years. „,.,. T]HE;British institution of garotting is hsinning tosbe imitated hrParis, where, it has hitherto been unknown. . At Ogdenburg, . Germany, ; a young married woman has .died in. great agony from the effects of tbe'bite of a.rat. The Snow on the great Alpine passr^^s^jJa^^jfecently'*'^ th^/'unpreißeden'teji; depth.iof iiorty^^ =feet--lienceltheiflopdß in the .y,i r - '•-':' ;' :VJ.?. .■"'.".- V. '• v 7 'A- AAiAA,