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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 132, 3 June 1875, Page 2

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[Press Agency.] INTER-PROVINCTAL. Wellington, Thursday. Mr E. Gillon, editor of the Evening Post, has been elecced, without opposition, as member for the •. ity In ihe Jfrovincial Council, for the seat made vacant by the death of Mr Borluse. Reefton, Wednesday. No. 2 South Lar-y's claim has fluished a crushing, aud obtained 166 ozs. of gold. Hokitika, 1 hursday. At the oattle s'le, beef averaged 40s. per lOOlbs. ; sheep, 14b. 6d. to 20s. Chkistchitboh, Wednesday Mr Justice Johnson arrived per steamer Phoebe yesterday, and was formally received by h s Hi nor the Superintendent. Only four candidates are undergoing the annual examination lor the Civil f-ervice. Mr. Webb, of Kictarton, has obtained the astonishing yield of lOObusheUof oats per aero from an eight-acre paddock. in the Provincial Council last Digbt, the Government were requested toobtain a report from the medicil stuffs at the Chrl.ti hurch and Timaru Hospitals a 9 to the advisability of reviving pupils as hospital dressere. The City Council have decided upon the general li.c of eiu-th-closets in the oity. Tha Lyttelton Times hHsjust received import tnt liilormatiou respecting the >'ew Zealand pascngers by the homeward San Fr^neircs mai ot March last. Captain Rose, who lelt New Zealand for England by the Mikaco in March, on business connected with tbe New Zealand Shipping Company-' writing

from Ogden, LTah Terri:o*y, on April 22nd, snyß tTmt or. his arrival a. Ogdfit, he foun-t fie line was damigedfor a distance of 200 mUrs beyond that spot, in cor>s qnenoe of which he had been detained for a Wtek, but c-xoeetcd to proceed nn his journey on that ilny. Owing tn tbo slate of the JVttds, he calcuistrd that ne cliild rot era»aic Rt New York before the Ist oi M;y. Forty New Zealand nnd WO other p'SSi'n.ebwerb detained witli Capitin Wose at Ogden. Tlie nmila by the.Mika'd*© had been sent on by the previous train from San Francis o, and got ; i hrough to New York after four dfoys' detention from the floods. It will, be s('en from th's tbnt Captain '-O^.e and the mt of tbe p3S9er)gfw could rfet leave New York at the earliest before the Ist of May. The Schiller whs lost at the Scilly Islands on the 4;h or fith or May, and must iiave left New York, at tbo late.t, on the 25th or 2 th of Aj;ril. It fo'lows, therefore, that the New Z. aland pissengers per tho Mikado could not have been on board the Schller. Auckland. Wednesday. Mr Saunders reports Bales of National Bank at 755. fellers :— South British, 495; Fiji, 345; Bink of New Z :aland. £1 7 15. Buyers : — Standard, 12s; New Zealand Insurance, 80s. Mr Justice Gillies tod<iy gave an important decision in the case of Bond v. Witnerlord, involving the right of a mnrriod woman to will away without the husband's consent, property conveyed to her by him, Mr Gillies decided that|ehe could not.