INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 176, 27 July 1874, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, July 25. At the adjourned met ting of the N.Z.S.S. Company held this afternoon, Mr Brandon, on whose motion the last adjournment took place, did not appear, and the motion, of which notice h«d been given protesting sgiiinst the eale of iLe company's fleer, was allowed to lapse. The steamers, therefore, will be sold as advertise! on the 31st-instant. July 27. • The wreck of the steamer Paterson, together with boats, sails, &c, was sold -to-day for £3 300 to Messrs Levin and Co. Mr Alexand M'Donild, assistant Undersecretary, died «t eleven o'clock hat night, after a loiig illness. Aucklahd, July 25. A man named Finley fired two phots through a window in the shop of Young, a butcher in Q;een-strret, at Davis, a clerk. Both balls lodged hirmltssly in the wall. Whenamstcd, a six barrel revolver, loaded and cocked, was taken from him. No cause is assigned for the deed. The William Gifford, whaler, has arrived at the Bay of Islands with oil to the value of £16,00'.?, the produce of ore year's cruise. The jary in the case of M'Farlane v Harris have been discharged without Rgreeing . It is understood that there were eight for a verdict for the defendant en all the material issues, and four for a verdict for M'Faiiane with nominal damngeß. The owner of the Ladr Bowen prefers a claim for £19,000 salvage against the Miltiades. Napxeb, July 27. Arrived yesterday, the Winchester, 84 days from London. Khe brings about 430 immigrants.