INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 179, 20 July 1875, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Monday. The Dauntle-s has arrive, from Fiji. The Governor received an enthusiastic welcome. He siid ths p esent form of Government would not bo chuiged until the machinery was in working order. Until then he -would not proclaim the charter of the colony, or read his commission. The Fiji papers < ontnin further details of the fearful mortility from measles. The natives are driven to desperation. Many have committed suicide, aad oihcrs have burnt villages. Bodies are left exposed, and eaten by pigs ard dogs. The number of deaths ou the Island of Vanu l.au alone ia estimated nt eighteen thousand seven hundred. The barqne Martini, from Saraca, reports tbat an American man-of-war has been there seven weeks engaged in setting claira.3 by Aiueri -■*>•_ citizens for compensation, arising out of theiate war. On the advico of the United States Consul, the natives have set up a king named Malietoa. Sellers South British, 435; Nituunl Bvnk 775; Long Drive, 15s; London, 51sj Beach, 255; half South Briush, 48«; Bank oi New Zealand, £l 7 17s. Bujers Californian, 10s; May, 10i 6-J. John May, eon of Joseph May, M.H.R, w&b tossed by a bull on Saturday, and seriously injured. He was only saved from being gored to death by clinging to its nose until assistanea came. WEtUKaTONj Tuesday. The inwarJ San Francisco mail consisted of 36 bag?, containing 2341 let'.er-. According to official information respecting the Schiller's mails, it appears that thi bags for London and Liverpool were saved, but the who'e ofthe mails for the Ensrlisb country districts, and for Jr-land were lost. Some of the letters for Wales were put into the Liverpool bags, and have been saved, but the great balk of tbe whole mail is irretrievably lost. There is an immease flood in the Hutt river. The water Is over the road for miles, and is still rising last The people are all preparing for it. Some houses are surrounded. It is raining and blowing hard,