INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 309, 31 December 1874, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Wednesday. Harvey, steward of fcbeßosario, has p*id the fine of £100 inflicted on him for smuggling. The whaler Jamtß Arnold has arrived at the Bay ol Islands with 250 barrels of sperm oil, the produce of a seven months' cruise. She reports boarding a water-logged ship on the 6th December, in latitude 25 Nortb, and longitude 30 West. The ship was 998 tons register, and laden with yellow pine timber. Owing to the fact th*t the stern was all smashed away, it was impossible to decipher h':r name. The crew had evidently abandoned the vessel some time before, va all the boats were missing. The vessel was apparently Eoglish. } It ie reported that the A.S.N. Company will carry on the San Francisco service for six months longer. The C. phrenes sailed at one o'clock to-day. Mr Andrew goes as mail agent. Ma'ame Arabella Goidard was a passenger. The Vire has arrived from Campbell's Islands, and reports tbat no transit of Venus observations were taken at that place. SiiUd— Swatara, for Chatham Islands. Wellington, Wednesday. There were orer two hundred applications this morning in response :o an advertisement by Tumbull and Co., fnr a storeman A short time ago about the same number applied for the job of driving a baker's horse and cart. Wellington, Thursday. The ball to be given to the Governor and Lady Normanby isfixel forthe 17th hut Ltttelton, Thursday. Arrived— Crusader, with immi'rants, all well. Geahamstown, Wednesday. Thirty diggers wi-h their swags have left for Ohiuenouri, with the iutention of waiting on the spot until tlie opening is proclaimed ° Samples of coal were shown in town to-day said to be trom out of a st-am on land between Kikntaia and Ohinemuri. CnmsTciiUßCH, Wednesday. Another branch rai.w.,y, thirty miles long, from the Racecourse Station, near Chris'tchurcli, to Southbridge, will be opened for general traffic in February. The Acclimatisation Society have decided to request the Superintendent to remove the protection from house sparrows, which have becomea nui-ance m tbe province; and to sanction tbe issue of licenses for fishing for trout in the River Avon. Port Chalmers, Wednesday. Arrived— Ship Florence, from London, after a passage of 115 days, with seventeen passengers. Bluff, Wednesday. The Otago left Meloourne on the 23rd, called at Milford Sound on the 23th, and landed her passengers nntil the 23 tb, when

she sailed for tho Biuff. Experienced fine weather »11 the passage. She brings 4? saloon and 24 steerage passengers, and 250 tons cargo f>r all ports. Sha sails tor .Dunedin to-iiight. Pas3eFger for Nelson. Mr Hindson.