INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 158, 6 July 1874, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellihgton, July 6. The City of Adelaide arrived yesterday morning andj.ailed in the aiternc .n for Auckland. Bis Excellency the Governor snd Lady Fergus.oa vitited; H.M.S. Challenger en Saturday to inspect the scientific instiument-j .. The Challenger fails lor Auckland to-day or ' - to-morrow morning. Auckland, July 6. The barque James Wi6hartfrom London - and Plymouth arrived yesterday, 102 days but: She brings .67 immigrants. Mue deaths of children occurred during the voyage. -The others are well. The ship Queen of Nations arrived later in —-.-the day from .Liverpool aad Belfast, 103 days oat, with 371 immigrants. There were three deaths on the voyage, otherwise all is well. " .7 ..' 7 • DmrsDn., July 4. A luge Are .look place la Priacfc*'itreet

this morning at A. R. Hay'a draper. The cause is unknown, but is supposed to have betn a defective stone No one was on the premises at the time, and the ruilding was gutted. Qoggardnnd Button's was threatened, but was only damaged by the warr. Mr Hay was insured in the South British for £1000, Liverpool, London, and Globe £1000, London ana Lancashire, £500 ; doubtful stock Australian Alliance, £1000; Victoria, J6IOHO. Hcggard and Button's {damage is covered by an insurance of £1000 in the Norwich Union. Chbistchukch, July 4. In the Provincial Council a motion that Sunday trains be run on the country lines of railway was negatived by 19 to 12, the opinion being expressed that no necessity exists for Sunday trains except between Christchurch and Port Lytt--lton Notwithrtanding the large influx of immigrants tbey are finding work pretty readily, but great difficulty exists from the wsrot of house accommodation in the country district*, and tho Provincial Council have passed a resolution requesting ihe General Government to erect more immigration barracks.