INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 150, 25 June 1874, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, June 24.

No eligible tender having been received by the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company for the purchase of their steamers, it has been decided to. cell them by public auction on the 24th of July. Six thousand shares in the new Colonial Bank ha'vebeen allotted during the last two days. : . .When ,the Star of the South, the Fij ian trader, was clearing from the wharf this afternoon, she fouled a coal-hulk, the anchor ot which drove a hole through her port bow, just below the water-line, fc he will be beached at midnight for repairing

June 25

Arrived : Yesterday, steamer Kennedy. Mr' Carter, the manager of a station near Kekerangu, belonging to Messrs N. Edwards nnd Co., and. who was a passenger to Wellington to. Beck medical advice, died on board . Auckland, June. 24.

Mr Alex. Saunders reports sales of Crown Prince at 19s 6d. 'Buyers, Caledonian, £9 10s ; Whaus. 755; Queen of the May, Us fid. Seller^ Bank of New Zealand,. ;Sl7 15s-, South British, 503; Alburnia, 555; City of Lorirton, -Tb^ Sons. of Freedom, 905.;

.'>,'■ l i ■"..' ..' Dunedin, June 2s. *' In the Supreme Ccurt, before. Mr. Justice Chapman, a rule nisi was obtained to enter up judgment for the plaintiff iii the case of Maca.-Bey ». Bell, notwithstanding the ver- • diet, oh the grounds of exdution of evidence - and misdirection. - '

Chbistchurch, June 24,

...Ip the Provincial . Council last night, an „' ordinance..inferoduced by the.President of the ; Executive . for, giving, the Superintendent ' power-to dismiss the Executive , during any sessio i of the Provincial Council, was thrown out by I_> to 17. A resolution was carried to • the effect that intending travellers by railway he allowed./ ty purchase tickets during any time of the day either at.the railway stations or at certain specified places- in. the various . centres of population, such tickets to be only > available on the day of issue. An Ordinance . introduced by the President of the Executive for making over all fees received in the municipalities on account of the dog tax, and : publican's' ahd auctioneers' licenses to the respective municipalities in which they are 'received, was thrown out by 19 to 14.