INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 180, 21 July 1875, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Tuesday. Mr Holloway, of the Agricultural Llorers Association, aud Mr Burton, of Tarauaki, tave been appointed Kmigation Agents lor ]Sew Zealand by the General Govern meat. The ilawea sails at midnight) lor JNelson and the North. Pa*seogers for Nelson : Misses Hou!t (v), Mrs Voataer and child, J. Kankia, J. Smith. Wednesday. Sailed — Phoebe, for Pieton, Neism, and North. Passengers — 'Meatr.-i. Shillington, Lucas, Jensen, tialleater, White, Mrs Clark, Misses Coiemau (2) , Mr and Mrs Nelson and child, Mr aud Mrs Sauadera, llev Thorpe, Mr Clark, Mr and M^ter Fitch. Auckland, Tuesday, The Star of the South has arrived iiom Fiji. £heFiji T mes expresses a belief that the new Governor has been co favorably impressed with Lfcvuka as to ritiin the cup tal there. Official dap irtmenis are said to show feigns elready of improved control. The Governor is making a trip to various parts of the group, and in cordially received. The news generally is unimportant. An Auckland petition is io circulation to the Assembly, by publicans, praying for the opening of hoteia irom one to three, and seven to ten on Sundays. The Union Safih and Door Company have daclwed a dividend at the rate of twenty per cent. A petition is being prepared in favor of the abolition of the native right to vote at elections of European representatives. Hokitika, Tuesday. Arrived— Schooner Friendship, from Helen*;

Wanoanui, Tuesday. Routledge, Kennedy, & Co's sale of fruit trees, shrubs, quicks, &c, from Fall's nursery gardens, fetched excellent prices. There is evidently a gooi market for tlie.-e things. Cubistchukoh, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court to-d*y, ia the cns3 Bain v Walker, to recover £5000 damages for slaud; r, a verdict wa3 returned lor the dt-fendant. The Chrhtchurch Metropolitan racss are fixed for IS'oYeinber 6tU, 10th, an<.\ 12th. Wednesday. ltslerday Mr H. Dymoek.who has resigned the management of the Bank of Australasia htre to take the management of the National Bank at Dunedin, was presented with a costly gold watch and chain as a mark of their esteem, by the constituents of the former Bank. The spawning season at the Acclimatisation Gardens haß commenced; 1000 trout ova. have already been obtained for artifical hitching. The Curator expects to get more than double the number ot ova that was obtained last year. About 3000 trout were hatched out last year. A large number oE trout of immense size hare been caught in thy Avon, some weighing over fifteen pounds each. In the Supremo Coart this morning, an action for £500 damages for libel commenced. The plaintiff is Joseph Newton, an imp-Tier of e.eds and agricultural implements, and the defendant is Wiilinm Wilson, teedsman and nurseryman , formerly Mayor of Chtistchurch. The alleged libel is based on a statement said to have been made by Mr Wibon, that Mr Newion would be in the Bankruptcy Court within three months.