INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 51, 22 February 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Monday. Tho stfam hopper Sumner put in here today, after hiving been within a hun'red miies of Lyttelton She is one of ihe three boats intended for dreJging that port. she left Glasgow on the 7th of _ugus r . last, and called-in at the following ports on her way to coal : — Gibraltar, Malta. Port Said, ,Su z. Aden, Port de Galle, Singapore, Somerset (Torres Strait*), Cooktown.and Brisbane, and had to put back to the latter place ten days alter leaving it. Sh» will proceed to Lyttelton after taking in thirty tons of coal. Tuesday. Arrivel: Ship Warwick from London, 99 days out, 81 from land to land. She had a f a ; r weather passage. She brings 47 passengers, and 30 prize Lincoln sheep for Mr Walker, of Waikato. All well. DuNtDiN, Monday. The Union Company have reduced the firpmen's wages from £12 to £10 per month throughout their fleet. The Hawea men have refused to accept the reduction, aod i hey have therefore all been paid off an 1 new men shipped. There are plen'y of unemployed firemen, and it is believed a still greater reduction would have been successful. Captain Macfarlane, of tha Taupo. goes home by the next fc-an Fran- isco mail to bring out the Rotorua, Captain Malcolm will probably take command ol the Taupo. Aucklaj;d, Monday. By arrangements with the General Government, £4000, balance of the £'40.000 advanced to the province, will be devoted to tbe employment of the Thames tnineis. The Mayor exchanged a congratulntory telegram with tbe Mayor of Sydney on the opening of the cable. Several cases of diptheria ase reported in the city. Grahamstown, Monday. A large number of unemployed assembled at the wharf to meet Hir Ge>rge Grey. A banner was stretched across the landing, and nalic" strips with the inscription, *• Welcome, Sir George Grey ! We want work." But j Sir George did not con.c.