INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 58, 9 March 1875, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Monday. . Eorty pounds worth of promissory note stamps went astray somehow out of a Government parcel while on the way between Taranaki and Wellington. An enquiry is being held over the matter. It is understood that Mr Eox supports Mr Wati'a candidature for the seat in Parliament for the R*n«itikei district, and that Mr Watt ia p-edge 1 to support the nbo'ition of Provinces, and the Permissive Bill. Mr Ludlam has sold one hundred an 1 sixty acres of his property at the Hutt for £8000. The Eimutaki railway contract is progressing satisfactorily. In the match between the Nelson and Wellington cadets, the latter fired at the Adelaide Butts on Saturday, .making a total score of 2SO points, thus winning by 24 points. Doneiun, Monday. Thp arbitra'ors in the Btvcc lhrad libel case (Turnbuli, Provincial Treasui er v. J. L. Gillies and J. Mackay) have made their award. They direct the publication of an apology, and payment of j£3o to the Otago Benevolent As\ lum an 1 £20 to the llefuge, and payrmnt of all costs by the defendant; failing complianca with the award within thirty days, judgment to be extended up to £3('O damages, with costp. The total receipts fom the Otago railways (including the Southlani district) for the month of February amount to £6,188. Hokitika, Monday. Connelly and ( party have applied to the Warden tor, a prospectors' claim for new grnuud discovered by them in the vicinity of Howßon, about four miles from Hokitika, and the Warden is said to have granted the app'icatijn The pros^ccors stite that they had been prospecting for a month. They Bunk a Bhaft over forty feet deep, and struck Avashdirt seven feet thick with gold throughout, which yielded one pennywtight of gold for seven dishfu's It is considered a very good yield, and the ground is rushed by a large number of diggers. It will be a week or so bf fore the value of the adjoining claims is known. The prospectors are sanguine of the discovery being a new lead. Tuesday. The Tararua left Melbourne on the 3rd instant. Experienced moderate weather throughout. Pa<Bengera for Nelson — Miesrs Phillips and Henry Faulkner, Mesiiames Phillips and Faulkner end two child; en, and seven in the steerage. Cargo, 27 tons. Auckland, Monday. The schooner Tawera caught fire whilst lying in Mechanic's Bay i his morning, and her insidp was burned out before the fire was extinguished. She was insured fur £7CO. During an interview with the deputation, Sir George Grey doubted whtther in colonies with Responsible Government tie office of resident Governor was either useful or necessary. He believed it would be infinitely better it each colony had the power of e ec ing one of their own Government or citizens to resido in London aB Secretary of State for the colony, with the privilege if interviewing her Majesty on all questions affecting the colony. He considered no question of Constitutional Reform could be complete that did not grapple with the question of the constitution of the Upper House.