INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 145, 19 June 1874, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL .

Westport, June 19. Mr O'Conor held a public meeting last evening, re the tenure of the Westport colliery reserve. He favors the control being given to the Superintendent and Provincial Council, and is adverse to any control by the Borough Council. The Westport public are much dissatisfied. ''-• > Wellington, June 19. In the Gazette theNK. is a proclamation announcing that telegraphic messages originating in the Colonies of New South /\|ales, Tasmania, and Queensland, may be transmitted by xpoSt for delivery in New Zealand without postage. Letters addressed to any "Vgfficer in charge of a telegraph station and containing no writing other than •»*. the necessary directions for transmission are also to be free. An_/>ndeavor is being made to start a monster Civil Service Club with a Cooperative Btore-lattachedi The building is to have seventy bedrooms; capital, £10,000. ,The Collector of Customs is about to hold an official enquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of a sailor on board the Chevert. The officers say that the vessel was rounded to at once, but the man had sunk. The Provincial Government is about to follow the example of that of Otago, and erect cottages for immigrants on *^ s account of the scarcity of house ac>^oj_tmodation. Auckland, June 18. Sailed — Star of the South for Napier and Southern Provinces. This is the "*s. inauguration of the new arrangement for the Fiji service. '*£}& Kenilworth has arrived from the South Sea Islands, bringing* Samoan passengers, who report that the first intelligence of the gold discovery at Samoa was conveyed to the presidents there by the New Zealand papers two months ago. They did not even know ftmt Consul Williams took specimens from the islands. There is no truth whatever in the alleged discovery. Gbeymouth,- June 19. In the District Court yesterday, * -j.udg_aei_t was given in the action City Cft-Ccil versus Hughes and M'Cartby, lessees,. of the Brunner Coal Mining Company, to recover payment of £116 odd, being the promised contribution towards the fee of Mr Moriarty for., reporting upon the harbor works. Judge Harvey nonsuited tho plaintiffs with costs, on the grounds that the action was premature. On the point of its being ultra vires likewise being raised, the Judge gave his opinion that the Municipal Council had no right to enter into an engagement for services in connection with harbor works. • The Greymouth Coal Mining Company have bottomed the main shaft, and proved the seam to be fourteen fett thick, the coal being ef excellent quality. A seam of first-class fire clay underlies the clay, but its thickness is aot yet proved.