INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 59, 2 March 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington. Thursday. The, Government have receive! a idcgram from the Ayeut-Gew-ral Btating thit the folio winK vessels had hern d.Hpntch.d wiih immigrants during Jauuary :— I j ooiih, wiih 161. for Bluff; H'fcragleti wilh lsO, for Neb-on; Co'u>t-e8 of Kiotore, with 183, for Lyttehon. Iu E- bruary the Bebi**gion, wilh 300 souls, was despatched for Aucklaud An ellort is being made to induce the school teachers of the province lo form a. Schoaimasters' Co-operatite Society, lor the purchase of books aud ottier educational material. The foil »vriug tenders have been received by the Public Works Department for the Nelson Creek Water-nice, sections 5 and 6: — Accented: David Matchell. Hokiiika, section 6,- '£1756. Declined: Price and Co,, Greymouth, section 5, iii 6,459, section 6, £2010; John O'Connor, Greymouth, section ti, £1713. Fr« sh tenders for section 5, were invited with the following result:- -accepted : Mandel and .Evans, liok.tik-i, £13,447. Declined: Michael Drennan, greymouth, £15,860; John Whee.er and others, £ I M 11 ; Pnce and Co ,£t«,-243. i Atjokxand, Thursday. J Sailed : Grenada, for ooutu, at 4 p.m. yes- i terday. , A fireman named James Williamson was stabbed yesterday, and lies in a dying condition. Ris depositions have been taken. JThe immigrants per Salisbury are a good /asß&r-tfnent, and are heing engaged rapidly as ..■aervrtnw.' T_be .j-jfcya-Sier Grenada with the Southern 3 snails anctipf^i in Rangitoto Channel last night., ' owing \Q Jhe Btormy nature of the •, *wea he--. .T_ie t Gjfcy,9f Melbourne sai.ed early " this morning for Sydney. P-isseugers by tbe Bliip Whtye Eagle, which . arrived hero frQia fcoadon Bome mouths ago

st-ite that during the voyage out, nft'.r a heavy gale in the nigl.t. they found the v< s-_icl right under the clifls at Croset Island. They had providen- ially been driven iuto the only safe channel between the islands. Some ofthe passengrs declared they **aw signals of distress on ihe JBlnnd. bot the officers were too busy to heed what thcy said. They say they are now satisfied that those signals must have been from the Stratlitnore survivors The circumstance was not reported on tho arrival of the vessel in port, Dunedin, Wednesday. The Customs revenue at Dunediu for the j month of February amounted to £40,575. showing an increase of nearly £7000 over the same month lost year, and the largest ever collected here. j Mr Mr Carruthers, and Mr Blair the ! Provincial Engineer, were visiting Doborah Bay Tunnel yesterday a piece of rock fell from the roof hitting Blair on the hip and knocking him down. He had a narrow escape from serious injury. The first number of the Press News published by the Typographical Association appeared last evening. It is capitally printed, und contains a quantity of traue news. Christchurch, Thursday. Tbe result of the the railway enquiry is that one official in the engineer department has been discharged and two suspended, and one in the traffic department suspended for a month. The Christchurch Gas Company have resolved to reduce the price of gas to \2i 6d per thouand feet. The profit* for last year were £4300. Port Chalmers, Thursday. Sailed— ship Canterbury, for London, with -25 passengers and a cargo consisting of fi,262 bales of wool, 23 bales of skins, and 14 casks of tallow, valued at £111,234.