INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 13, 14 January 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dxtnedin, Thursday.

It is Bt^tefi that E. N. Ltgite, of Helensbrook Milton, is about to enter an action against one of the insurance comrades io Dunedin for £10.000 damages, arising from complications resulting from the late fire. An enquiry is being held iota tbe stranding of tbe steamer Lady of the Lake at Catlin's river.

There have been several new cases of scarlet fever duting the last two or three days.

The man Lawson, a sailor on the Jeesie Read tnßn, who*e leg wa» smashed on Tue»day while loading wool, died in the hospital yesterday. At the inquest held a verdiot of accidental de.tfh was returned.

There was a long argument yesterday re the release of Jenkins, charged with iocendinrism. The counsel for the defence urged thata fiiw in the coroner's inquisition justified the acquittal. His Honor reserved judgment.

The Presbyterian Synod is now sitting. # James Rattray, who has just arrived from home, has presented the province with a splendid oil portiait of Captain Cook, copied from the one in Greenwich hospital, which was taken from life.

In yesterday's Clut^a Leader there appears the following letter from Mr Macandrew : — "It appsars to have been Mated, upon what authority I know not, that the hon. Sir Julius Yogel is to join the Opposition, and that, in fact, he and I are to form a Government. Although this is no doubt a very flattering compliment to me, it is due to the Ctutha electors to say that I hava no knowledge as ti whai|ihe future line of acionof Sir •'u'iuß may ba If lan to judge of bis op'nions and policy by those of hie colleagues iv the Government, the one contingency is just as unlikely as the other."