PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 77, 31 March 1874, Page 2

PROVINCIAL.

***•■•■■ Auokt.am>, March 30. Mjr. Alex. Saunders reports sales of City of LoHdpn Bharea at 17b 9d; Beach, 22s 6d. Buyers: Bank of New Zealand, £11 6s, National Bant, 648; Caledonians, £8 ss ; City of London, 17s 6d ; Waitemata, 4b 6d. The 7 Governor arrived yesterday in his yachts which was towed from Rarjgitoto by the steamer Rowena. '..:__ „.. March 31. Ttie. Star's London correspondent Btates tha*t free passages have resulted in the shipment of an inferior class of immigrants, and instances 'passengers by the Dorette, which left on January 2 1st for Auckland with 340 immigrant?. ;He states that with the exception of the single women they were much below tbfr'average class. The Auckland Shipping Company's ship Waikato for the Auckland trade, was launched to-day: She is r sister vessel to the Raikaia. Ttie members of the Melanesian Mission at a meeting on Norfolk Island, nominated the Rev J. R. Selwyn' as Bishop. The appointment requires confirmation by the General Synod, which is about to meet at Wellington. 'Ihe schooner Marion Renny from Leruka has arrived. She states that the steamer i Macgregor has . floated. H.M.S, Pearl tried to get her off for several days, hut all the strongest warps broke and compelled her to desist. Meanwhile 300 tons of sugar and a large Quant tr of coal were thrown overboard, there being no means of landiDg it. The steamer floated off on the 7th instant, by herself, the Pearl having gone to Levuka. The Macgregor was taken into safe anchorage in Galoa Bay. She has a hole twelve feet by three feet in one of the forward compartments, which is full of water, but otherwise she is uninjured. She will be repaired as well as circumstances will permit, and then taken to Sydney. to be docked. The-proposed annexation of Fiji has been negatived by the King and leading chiefs assembled at Bau. . There will ba fresh elections. . .-,- New Plymodth, March 30. The Superintendent has received a letter stating that half tte proceeds from the sale of confiscated land would for th i future be banded over to the Province, the moiety of which was to be spent in the district where * the land is, the remainder by vote of the Council. , ' A testimonial was presented to-day to T. Kelly, Esq , M.H.R., by a number of friends and -constituents as a recognition of his services in Parliament in promoting the construction of the Waitara railway. Dunedin, March 30. Mr Macphereon, of Canterbury, addressed a public meeting on Saturday night. He said it wa.s folly of the Government to induce working-men to emigrate from Great Britain in euch large numbers. Oa returning to England he would tell them the truth, and give them words of caution. The North Dunedin telegraph station will be opened in a few weeks, with two lady operators. ■ ■'■ March 31. 129 more of the passengers who arrived by the Scimitar will be admitted to partique tomorrow. The journeymen bootmakers last night formed themselves into a trade union.

Gbbtmouth, March 81. Tha election of a member to represent the Grey Valley in the Nelson Provincial Couucil took place o>i Saturday. The returns are just in, and the following is the result < f the polling :'— B Maguire, 167 ; Lash, 98 ; Hayde", 80 ; Jones, 79. v , Port Chalmers, March 31 % Arrived, the Trevelyan, ship, from Locdon, after 121 days' paesnge. ISfcehad un'avorab'e winds. " : : llokitika, March 31. In the Supreme Court, in banco, Mr Newton for the llokitika Tramway Company appeared to show <ause against the rule ui-i in arrest of the judgment obtained at Nelson Mr South, for the Provincial Government, supported the rule. Judgment was reserved. ■