INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 254, 26 October 1874, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

''&'•}>■[' j 5 " 1 ; , 3 DUNEDIN, Monday. ; ■^APJfess Club is now fairly started tare.,. .A^ 1 the meeting on Saturday ntgbt w was stated that nearly sixty members bad joined, and the meeting torpeHed to the election of officers. si£rsUi, o f ! tne .Evening Star, was elected i President. The Press Dramatic Club will give a performance on the 9tfcr ! NbVe&ibe^ in aid of Hattie Shepherd's Memorial Fund, „,.. .Wellington, Saturday. T^e.^apyernmeot have received per Tararoa a telegram from the AgeotGpe^al'daj^ed October ;7, which states that the following immigrant ships failed during: September :— Cospatrick, Mti,j42O sobls for Auckland; Geraldioe fagei,. with 390 souls for Canterbury; pto/snpe* with 340 for Napier; Carnatic, #Itfa-£9ot for Marlborougb; Crusader, fcfrft n ;;3JQ for Canterbury; . 370 for Auckland ; i^^Fgwet^albrftitb, with 130, and the Kelson, with ZZO for Otago. .y.li'uUD - , Monday. l ~A' Warden'* Court is constituted' at West ,Wanganui, and Mr Alexander Mackay' iV gazetted Warden, j^luj v JP^r.oviqcial land sale is now going, .nio. ..The prices realised arenas a rule, considerably . over r tbe upset. i Port Chalxebs, Saturday. tV'Xfa/fittaP "Jessie Rcadman, from Glasgdwi/witb 268 statute adults, all i — Sbe wbahag barque Splendid starts QdftWUUkt cruise to-morrow, Monday. Stijfhe Ffeach war ship Vire has arrived ; also, the ahip Calypso, :

-but she v»s -not yet towed > io. ..The |Teasie Readman has arrived after being|blown; off. I'he whaling barque Cbanc«,| had. to put back, having lost |S>th#ar ah^ors a^ M-'Quarrils. £ Auckland; Saturday.

The schooner Fiery Cross, 26^daysK from Napier, has arrived. She left oh the 28th September, and had gales from tbe start.-" On the 6th instant, a tremendously* h&avyLequall 4 drove the vessel on her beam ends, and the next day her rudder was carried away, the stocfe^Weafcing~in tatf." Thevessellay in a helpless coodiiion in a cross sea, and had to heave- to for ten days. She drifted, to Jee ward at the rate of three knot*, -per hour on an average. She made several attempts to ship a new rodder: but did not succeed. On the gale abating about the 17th, she rigged a temporary steering. apparatus, but by tbia siiqae the food bad run .short, although the crew had been on short allowance, nearly all the time. She passed- a. (all rigged ship, but could not make ber answer Bignals. Oo the 18th she epoke the hast Lothian, and obtained provisions. The men and offices ¥re] weak; and exhausted, \ and the vessel is much strained.' She bore up for Auckland, not being able to beat up (o Tairuo, whither she was bound.

The discussion on ritualism has been settled by the withdrawal of all motions on the matter which is left in the bands of the Bishop, who has promised to give his attention to any appeal from a congregation. Archdeacon Mattnsell said that turning to the east wrb tbe only ritualistic practice he knew in Auckland.

The prospectus of a co-operative meat supply company is issued with a capital of £4000.

The Hero arrived at 430 p.m. today. She left Sydney oa the 19th instant.