INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 191, 2 August 1875, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

• \ .'- ;v v • ; I I^vercabg:j,l, Saturday. ' '-; ■' Tlie nomination of candidates far ttievacs-ifc seat occasioned by theif?ath;of Mr Wallace, took place to-day when the= following/ wiro\ proposed :— Messrs J&shati', Cameron^ v aod - Mou I kerne. " S .V Tte first Invercargill p'oughing champion match took place ft tQrday-4u a paddock : be- . longing to Mr A SW&isdiTjdof JCliristchucch, cloie to town. There weW 28 Competitors, 13 double and 15 single furrow p'oughs. The wotther was very fivorable, and the m\tch wps a most 'decidedrsueceiis. Abont •» 800 people were presf nt. Nkw Plymodth, Faturdav. One of the crew of the cutter Hero ha9 be. j n w«fhed fshore at Mokau, but ha) not bcm identified The Ma wii buried it high | up rn «hi be ich. A number of natives cime i in to tee Mr Parris r specting it. . An official turvey of the Hero has been htli to base a claim tor salvage. The report j the tajv&ge d.rrst?at £330*. and timber,.' [ &C., XHitMy \J : &X \JjJ-J.M A '■ '"'X ! A II the rail wav bridges are expected' fco b<P finiriitd at the end of August, and the line will be opened for passenger traffic a: the eud of feptember. ""' '"""'" Donedin, Monday. 1 Produce quotations:— Wheat, prime sunplei, 4s fijlj medum,4s to,4s^d;'b4ts dull, for feed worth 2s 8d; milUng,<2ii ltfd; iharley, prime samples are offering at 6s 6d to 5s 9d; ire ah butter continues scarce at 2s 4d; aalr, la lOd; cheese, l»SJ;°C6ldDiiir'h4mß, ! 1# 3d, ' Kn^lis-h, Is 9J; eggs scarce at,2«6d. ; Tbe male immigrants from t'^'e Aldc-gr'ove got drunk in town on Saturday, and created a terrible disturbance Rtthe barracks, They smashed the windows and broke up the forms and chairs to use as bludgeons, and indulged in a r. gular faction; fight.' I ThC {ol'ce arrive J just iu time to prevent a fatal affray. Six arrests were made, and two mea are iu-tlie hospital, f. ' " fJ f £ '§'* T v { e- .'iLk\ i r ?'"' The Gas Comptny have dec'ared aflividead of 15 per cent, and have promised a reduction in the price of gas. Ihey intend itt Teasing their capital to carry on new works. By the arrival of the Emu there are Fiji dates to 23rd July. '■ -I • .-.",- , -. { MM. ship Barracouta left Levnka with the Governor on jhat date for Nadt, the proposed - seat tf Government. " x _ ■' '" * G. M'Maura, teller of the Fiji Bank, died . of typhoid fever. ; A Sanitary Board has been formed afc Levuka. . . At -Lutu -> Aprlsoifer r; waVti sen^iS'^ to " death, /or^chljd jnar-ier." *]Hfe?wife liaS been . eoDfittfcd, and to save her Ji f e he killed 'the chi'd by burning ifc aiive, in accordance with Fijicustom. f ■„,,-.., The ntfive police have beeij 'interfering,: yith the white population ao much as to cause general indignation . A public meeting wan held on the subject, but nothing done.~~ ; Publio flgit«tidn;exlsts|as^Ki»||id'ifubei«igf' msde the p-rt of call. Th'egemral opinion ' is that LeyukVs claim is pre-eminent. px-King ;•" Cakobau 'J] is cdiwofefcerifc . of morales. ' ' """ ' » U M. ship Pearl l=ft Levuka for the Kew Hebrides on the 1 2th July. !• A fire ofcurred at Bail on thfr llfch, nnd destroyed the pri.ici'f af public buildings; Oue sick native peri-he 1 in the flames. A dinner to the Bau murderers is tpoken of in the Fiji Tm^s aifche lafcssfc thing on tbe tapjs in Leyuka.? { j i A '- - - ;j Mr Creightdu te'egrnphed tb his proposer and seconder, asking whether the Eden constituency approved of immediate abolition oc .th ught. -the question, should, be -defiled by the next, general election; *• They. < replied ' that tl e majority favored an appeal to the country, Monday. Mr Thomas Beckham, District Judge, la. d'nd. He was sent over to the colony from New South Wales by Sir George Giprs to join the staff; o£- Governor Hobson iu 1839, &ni has contintiei -Resident Magistrate ever tince. fie was 71 years of ase. ] ■''['' GRAHAMsrowtr,' Satnrday. ; A meeting fctke< place this evening t) conaider the possibility jmd-advisabilily of-.- gend- . ing four lepresoota'ires from Ntw Zsaland to Phitadtlp!iiin;l -compete in tha International cdht^k ' Wa/ker; x champiQn of tlie small Bore, is movioc iii the matter. . - Wblmsosow, V« day. A caucus of Government' support ers was he'd on Saturday,, and the Timet this morning save it is ia a poition to state that .the majority .of the?.Hbu«e of Rfijjresentatives hiiye \ pledged \$ \ tarry the Government bills through during the present seas pa, and thafc Ministers entertain no doubt wfca?e?er as to the, power" of fcle\General A«8omb?y > to at dlish Provincial Govern^ mentH ' -■-.■....:? " A Gazette notifiei Her Majesty't aisent to an Act to provide i for the Fugitive . Criminala. -<---•->-. i

,',. ■ [rnciK ACOBBEBPOSDBNT.] " WellinutojC Saturdiy A caucoabf ; Gdver-im nt [supporters met at Ur J olk*n"s house to-day, when tho following, resolution was/agreed to rem on*— "Thas this meeting agrees to s-ipport the • principles of the measures intro Iwcd by the Government yest«!idvv, withaview to th'jir btinK givou eflu t to this s sii ri ' Mr Header Wood m*dj a etitvuent in whi h yhe argticd aaaii st the arrangemtnt respec ing the la* d fund ' ; " ' Mr StHftord replied that the land lurd arrsngemeat had been fixjd t»y the Act of 1868. ** r -J?* ader rtt'red from the meeting. 1 here wore fofty-five memb rs left by whom tho r* solution wus passed. The Goverumi nt whips say that other 6iK.niem !, **rs are bound by .engagement to sujpirt the ie'-iolutiins. * '