INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 106, 4 May 1875, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

* ; ' Christchohch, Monday. Mr B. Patkerson, jun., aged 45 years, r, house surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, died : yesterday morning from typhoid fever. Tha ; hospital has been crowded with typhoid fever cases for months past, and Parkerson was greatly .overworked. On Saturday last, Dr Back, sheriff, proceeded to Lyttelton, and gave Mercer official • intimation that the sentence ol the law would \-- : be carried out upon him at eight o'clock on / Friday morning next. On being visited by , ifche Rev F. Knowles and Wills, and asked to v attend prayers, Mercer declined to do so, and '; on those gentlemen leaving gaol, he remarked that anyone seeing ministers leaving him . -would think tbat ho was going to heaven ■quick. -' Bishop Redwood attended mass at the " VCatholic Church yesterday, and preached to ■'{ a crowded congregation. '!o~r- Chkistchuhch, Monday. 'If A A laboring man, named Knight, was fined ':\ £\0 for having two grey ducks in Mb posges- : glon on the day before tho opening of the I -;.' shooting season, and, in default of payment, "" : - waal sentenced to two months imprisonment :^He has been liberated by Sir Cracroft Wilson i^p^ying-the fine. The Governor, in response l^tfr a petition, said he had just previous'y Ipigued a warraut for the release of Knight.

i iHbkiKKA, Tuesday. .' Arrived : Steamer A lbibri, -from Melbourne. Passenger* for Ntlson : : Mrs Usher, Mr •Whattoni and 110 tons of cargo. '■- Wellington j Tuesday. Arrived— -Otago, from South. * Dunedin, Tuesday. The thirty-fourth session of the Provincial Council opened yesterday. The Superintendent, in the course of a very lengthy Bpeech, said that 12,311 immigrants had arrived during the year. Referring to the abolition of provinces, he admitted a change in the present constitution necessary, but was opposed to -the modus operandi proposed. He instanced that Otago and Canterbury contributed more than half tho consolidated revenue of the colony, and averred that by abolition their resources would be still more drawn upon. He expressed himself favorable to the unity of the colony, but submitted that the surest course to attain that end woull be by every province being dependent upon itself! — contributing a fair share to the support of a Federal Government at Wellington, and also a fair Bhaie of tbe debt already incurred by the colony. Consistently pursuing this course tho other provinces would draw together as in the case of Otago and Southland, and so unity would be arrived at and eventually be brought about, and yet a financial separation of the North and South Islands would be practically accomplished. Mr M'Lean has Veen leturned for Waikouaiti by a majority of 52