INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 67, 19 March 1875, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Chbistohui}<Si£, Friday. The question of providing a graving docl at Lyttelton was revived at the meeting o the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, ai< the Chamber waa requested to confer wit! the Provincial Government on the matter. The Chairman ir.frmea the Chamber that two stonm barges, each of 35-horsj power, ■would leave bngland to the order of the Provincial Government next month. T&ey will te brought tut via the S<kz Canal, and ba used in Lyttelton harbour f< r towing and other pur poses. A resolution was adopted urging ihe Government to run fate trains between Chrißtchurch and Lyttelt n every day .instead of once a week as at present. Wellington, Friday. Dr. H. Eileol,' the Fnneh iscientist, is in Wellington makirg a collection of marine specimens of natural history.^He was engaged in dredging! in the harbour yesterday. ! ' Wanganui, Friday. A man was arrested this afternoon for criminal y assaulting a child four j ears old. It commute Her trial, th s will m»ke the third case of the kind since the last sittings of the Supreme Court. Napi&b, Friday. The immigrants ex Fitz Beute r wero lande 1 to-day in good health. r J here \ad i een some eickDes* on the vo)age and 13 deaths, Maiden Plate : Arihi's b g iiinini, 1; Wanganui (came owner) 2. Scurry JStakbs Mr Maney'a Marquis, 1 ; Ta» g<ta's Mhoii Weed, 2 Hawke's Bat Stakes : Won >by Maori Wted. - }-, Flyino Stakes: Won by Mr Bcney's Opawa. The races were all well contested, ; Gkbtmodth. Friday. Goldpiflds' Handicap : Guy Fawkee, 1 -, Septimus, 2. Yattttina was scratched. Hurdle Handioai* : Won by Tommy Dcdd Bohough Handicap : Won by Yatterina. Guv Fawkes nas scratched. Stbwabds Handicap : Guy Fawkts, 1; Yatterina, 2; Sandy; 3. Consolation Stakes : Won by Magenta,