INTER-PROVINCIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 109, 7 May 1875, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL

I?? 1 ':,/- . Chbistohukoh, Friday. i'/ 'The salmon ova continue to go .bad dally. £•.?-; ;and only a few are left in tlie boxes. A few sS I ' of the birds received ptr Tintern Abbey have g^died, bat the remainder lpok very hraithr. !>-, ; The Government have given formil noiice £^ to'tha contractors for the additions to the £z Mmeum to suspend work until after the ;V -* Approprintio'tf Ordinance is pas-ed. a ',-; l .Mf Frederick Paviit late steward of the Property Trust EBtate has been •; . brought up in the Magistrate's Court charged :' with embezzlemrnt of £797 from the funds ;' -<-.- of the estate. Prisoner had filled the position V of steward for nine years, and his salary of lato was £400 per annum. The defalcations, r were found out while the prisoner was absent h: : irom his duties owing to illneas. When v . tpoken to about the matter, he expressed ; v great regret that the Church funds should J - suffer through his sin. He faid that the were due to 103?e3 in flax specu--v■"": lations, and offered to surrender all his furniture nmi tffecis to the trustees. Two ; : other informations having b: en laid against : him, he was remanded until May 12. The •-.' prisoner appeared to feel his position very .;; acutely. Prior to this he was held in high . . respect by a!l who knew him. He hss Beveral ' brothers in Canterbury, all of whom are :.".-- greatly respected. ; . The immigrant* per Tintern Abbey were open for engaeement yesterday, and a great i-y.. portion, including all the singe girls, were v' engaged at the fo lowing rates of wage<: r Married couples. £55 ta £60, all foumi ; single : meu, £10 to £50; domestic servants, £29 to £25; nurse girls, £12 to £15. Mercer was executed this morning. He : ; : ..declared his innocence to the last. •'■■■:■. ■-■ Ojhiaktt, Thurfday. ■ : The Governor, accompanied by Dr Pollen, ■] -\ Mr Rollefton, Mr Macindrew, Lady Nor- -.-.. rasinby, and t-ir Dillon J3ell, arrived at the Town Belt at lOn m., and were met by the v Mayor Bnd Councillors. They proceed to the Council Chamber, where the volunteers k,\- were drawn up in line, and pres.nted arms. , -. A salute wai fired, aud addresses were pre- . sented and replied to.' The ptrty then proceeded by train to the breakwater, whore an address wa3 presented by the Harbor Bonra.^T.he Governor christened the wharf • "Macandrew's Wharf," and Mr Macaudrew : : it open to trifflc. ?ha p:rty wee Bhpwn over the wharf, and a block cf thirty ■tons of concrete was lifted and laid, and the „ whdrf works generally were inspected. Ihe V, Elderßlie, of 450 tons burd-n, was the first c: f vessel alongside tlio wharf. '.Hie pHrty then fc-; 1 ,: returned by train to lown to a luuch at the ,/: Volunteer Uall, tho Harbor Board being the t. hosts. , . V .■ _ L ■- Timaru, Friday. r The races were net so good as last year but the weather was fine, and the attendance / large Hurdle Back— Tommy Dodd i, Ivenhoa " ?> 2. Medora aud Alice Giey were scratched. .; . Maiden Plate — Nectar 1, Waverlcy 2 '/Mignonettes. ' .' /TiMARcr Cor— Won by Castaway in a • c inter, Exile 2, Mignonette 3. Blenheim, Friday. / ' A requisition is being very influentially fifcd numerously signed, asking Mr Seymour not to resign bis teat in the Assembly, on ,' iho ground that the next session will be un- ; iffipHiUftt. It i« understood that Mr Seymour is fIW likely to accede to the lequeet Mr v 3esGoh Ward, fA.I'.Q., is likeiy to become a £. and it bo does so Mr Moor house is fr :: r $6$ mp&Gksd to have mnch chance. !& : ; >;i „ . WISJ/MNGTOK, Tliuruday. $os'l&® ¥f6fin^\ Council meeta at 7.30 topyjfefgft^ -Whtitl ftif Eeiiree will move an uddretn. MssE?syfo§ i4 &MGQ Ui th« wsoiion of a row

wirg and other additions to the Wellington College. f Mr Wallace bM at the Hutt usefu- hacks at £3 to £12; draught horaee, £14 to £25 ss; cows, £2 10s, It is understood that Mr Robert Pharazyn will be the new member of tho Provincial Executive vice Mr Watt resigned. Auckland, Friday. Mr Reader Wood has joined the Executive, at first as Provincial Treasurer, but possibly afterwards, en Secretary. Mr Eees is expected also to j'>in. Mr A. Or. Miller, manager of the National Insurance Company, has died from typhus fever. A number of merchants have purchased the Magellan Cloud, expected shortly from Ihe Chatham Islands, via Lyttelton. She will re employed in the pperm whale fishery on the roast. Mr G. W. Binncy reports trade very quiet. Flour. Oaruaru, £12; Christ-hurch , £11---poll«rd, £7; tran, £5; potatoes, £5; cheese, Is; hams and bacon, r.oce. 12-30 p.m. A fire in Ch»pel-Btrett is now burning. It has destioyed A*hei J s buildings. Water supply short, I ut progress of fire checked by pulling down outhouses end adjoining buildings.