INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 292, 3 November 1875, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

DusED.tr. Tuesday. Sir Dillon Bell hrn expressed his intention of .fain etanding for Mataura, unle.s on his arrivd home he should And that domestic aff.lfs m*y render it necessary for him to proceed to England. A dispute- claim for compensation was brought before the Supreme Couit yesterday. It ia ft claim for £32,950, preferred by David Proudfoot, as compensation for the .Ranges alleged to be sustained by him, the plaint ft, oa account of the Moerakt railway passing through hie quarry on the Port Cba mera railway line. The claim is brought before the Supreme Court in accordance with the provisions of the Immigration and Public Works Act, 1874, and his Honor Judge Will'ame is conducting the case aloog with two assessors. Wednesday. Mr Stout addresses bis constitu-nts on Friday, aad it is just possible the Opposition through him will sound the keynote of iheir programme. A caucus of the leading Oppositionists has been held, aud a definite course of action arranged, but it has not y.t transpired Sir George Grey's kctu-e on " Australian Colonies including New Zealand" was a great success last eve -iog. Tbe Hall was crowded. B-shop Neville was on tie platform, together with Sir John Richardson, Messrs Sheehan, Bunny, and Bradahaw, and some of the leading citizens. There will be a baadsome sum for All Saints' Church Fund. iNVEBCiKOiLL, Tuesday. The News says an advertisement inviting ten lers tor cartage of wool from Wantwoud Statioi affords rather sharp commentary on the action o( the railway authorities in fix ng rates of carriage on the Matiura line, as -wngoni of an ordinary road can do work ehe iper than locomotives under the existing management Wellino^on^ Tuesday. His Excellency's decision in Colonel M'D.nne.'- rase has been communicated. The evidence taken before the Court of Inquiry is very voluminous. The three principal witnesse. were Sir George Grey, Sheehan, and Brisaenden Tbe latter brought co proof to show that the letter sent him by M Donnel was one of thos. said to hive been missed irom the club, but on the contrary it was to have been delivered to M'Donnel at his lodgings by _ome person unknown Mr Sheehan, who hai ep.ken to M'Donnel on two or three occasions during the thne daya that Brissenden's Setter was In M Donne .'s possession, advise 1 him on the third d-y to send the letter at once to Bri.senden. Sir George Grey (<o whon M'Donnel sent a few minute-- after he had received the letter), read the whole or a portion of ie, and then r commended him to take legal advice, ani suggested his epaaking to Siceban. From tho evidence ol Sir Georg. Grey he appears to have been tha only per. n who . eeo uamen^e i the retention of Bri .sen .en's letter by M'Donnel, aid when asked by the Court for his rca-aon.- for recommending M Donnel to take legal _d»_. c rather than retnrn the letter at once to it. owner, be said he thought something very wrong had been done by somebo iy, aed that delay would give time for enquiry, lhe fiuJing of the Court is to the effect that af er receiving the Ittt-r at his lodgi-rgs M'Donot 1 rea-< a portion of it before he sscertiiied it was ad 're -aed to Brisseoden, but that on seeing it w. b so addresnei he was guilty of highly improper conduct in not sending it at once to Bri-s >nden with a n*-te of »|*o!ogy and expl inatijn. The Court at the 6 me time considered tint the g'ett anxiety of mind under which M Donnel was laboring about tbat time on account of imputations a. to hii veiacity b.fore t'.e Tairui C-mrnittee fc>getber with the irijudicia.u- alvice he hid re; eived, were the ciutes of hii so improperly retaining Briese.iden'a letur, and t iking a copy and ehewinu it to others, such conduct being repr.henuble and unjustifiable. The Court conclude 1 by le'erring to M-Donnel's high testimonials, distinguished service and gool character. The Uoveroor eutlrely concurs in the opinion of the Court, but a-* there is no evidence in ant way connecting M'Donnel with the abstraction of the letter, and taking into coDS : der-*t.on bis anxiety ot mind; moreover as lie believed his con iuct w*a great y guided by th. ad vie. he unf>rtunately leceived from others, the Governor was unwilling for ihe a'-ove reason*, ani in consequence of his dieting uistie 1 service, t> cancel h'B Caimmi-sion. His Eteelle-.y ruu.t, however, express ttrong reprobation of his con luct, and adjudge him to be reprimanded by the Defence Minister. Wednesday, M' E. T. Gillon is about t> resign ihe editorship of the Evening I'oU. He will, it is un ler.-too I, contest the election for the Wellington country districts with Mr Bran .onThe steamer L tdy bird take* away with her this afternoon about 60 Itaiiin* (who arrived by the He:schri>) as far as Ne'son, where they wiil be transhipped into one of Messrs. N. Edward* & Co 's botts, which witl take them to Hokitika and Jackson's Bay. New* Pa-.rMOa.Ta*-, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Harbor Boird, a proposition of ths Government re the central p-riwa wm 4ißca__.a, A gj ?g q jitioa (9 tb<?

effect that the Board give up one fourth of the land fund, and that in r turn the Government make the first portion of the harbor in three yearg. and placa the centre I prison at the Sngar Loaves, the prisoners t > work on the foundation of the ha**' or, was postponed until after the engineers havo been here and reported.