PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 169, 15 July 1873, Page 2

PROVINCIAL.

' ' r-f 1 R^efton, July 14. The Bandjbf Hope Company is to be liquidated. THe crushing was only 2dwts to the ton. -.■ t • • • >#T \ . The Ajax has qjeVp^yable stone. The Golden Feece crushing is satisfactory. The Wealth of Nations yielded 19Jwts to the ton. Anderson's crushing- is expected tor yield over loz to the ton. ■ ' . Wellington, July 14. ■ Three of. the Halcione's passengers died fromtyphoid fever; and there were r three deaths from other cnusee. Tne vessel is quarantined. She briDgs 278 passeDgers, including 256 Government 'itnmigrpnts. : * " : Sailed.: Xbe Australind, for New.castle. i -J ,:,- „. , ' .; ;- , , July }5 ' Iti§ stated that. while the kst ppntVrf.fr^ entered into by the Agent-.Geuemhfopttbe ctfo'veyanee of, immigrants to New 'Zealand was £17 per head, the New Zealand, Company's first con t ract wag i lor-"' £16, i w^r'ptfpbn Shaw Saviilf 4 , & ' Gni YistluqeJ th^;c|jarge lo' j&l4'for the priucfpal"' poll's, with a alight increase /or (he srualler ports. /j ? -AV^i'i I'W.AN(JANT;i,,JuIy l 'W.AN(JANT;i,,July 14.\^i. I vinbial Joan of £210,000. ! '

CHRISTCHUJEKi^IfeIy'i &J£- . The journeymen tailorg^firejaten fC : strike on Thursday next .urile.BjMJ[jteir demands are complied with, y.; 1 The Orangemen had a grand dinner last night; over 200 being present. DuNEDiN, July 15. It is proposed to connect Waitaki and Invercargill by railway. If the General,Assembly refuse togrant the appropriation, the province will set apart half a million acres for the purpose. The Orangemen had a dinner on Saturday. Port Chalmers, July 25. Arrived : Araby Maid, from London. All well. -Lyttelton, July 15. Cleared: John Bull, for London, with a cargo of meats, wool, and wheat. Auckland, July 15. Roberts, charged with the manslaughter of a Hindoo, has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Cambridge, July 14. A large meeting was held on Saturday regarding Sullivan's murder, at which resolutions were passed to the following effect : — Ist. In the opinion of this meeting, from the utter contempt with which the natives have treated the Government since and previous to the, murder of Sullivan, and from their having attempted the rrurder of the Government Agent, the Bottlers demand British law to be enforced through the length and breadth of .New Zealand. 2nd. This meeting expresses surprise and regret at the Government endeavoring to construe the murder- of Sullivan' into a private quarrel, which the natives acknowledge to have been premeditated solely on political grounds, Purukutu being instigated by the King to commit some outrage in order to provoke hostilities. 3rd. This meeting cannot underatand the action of issuing Crown Gaants aiid not protecting the purchasers, thereby virtually acknowledging the authority of the King over the lands. 4th. Where it is in the power of .the. Government to grant protection beyond the confiscated land, such protection ought to be given. .'_-.-;• ; . The Hon. Dr Pollen informs Mr. Buckland that the Government declines f to. grant protection outside the confiscated boundary. . . ,„ „ - ,' ••• Napier, 'July 15. " Six hundred and twenty-ifiv^ shares in the New Zealand Shipping Company have been taken up, \ j . % ■ • i