NTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 63, 6 March 1876, Page 2

NTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunedin, Monday. The following is the published text of a petition to the Superintendent, in course of Mgnatiire in the sou- hern portion of this province: — (1.) That, as proved bv the result of th<-"**re. e* t ele. t.ons, there exists in the Provi ce of Otago a str ng b lief that|the abolition prdtH-sals oi the pre-H nt C-douial Government wet-^i-rem-'ture, ill-ad via d, and likely, to be prejudicial if given tffeot to (2.) That your memorialists consider that pub section 2 of clame 25 tif the Abolition Act prohibiting the HsembL of Provin iil Council arbitrary, unyonstiiution.l, and amouming io a virtual dis'r nclusem nt of the Pr -vincitl cons ituencie! 1 . (3.) That your m-ruorialists believe that in the present circumstance of the colony atnetingof the Provincial Council (which might take the shape of a Commission) is absolut ly necessary, there being many matters of pressing irapor-a* ce requiring con-rid-i-ration, pending the latification or rep al, ss the case may be. of the Abolition Act, Your m.emoriilis.s would therefore respe-.t- . i ully r : que«t your H. nor to convene a meeting of the member* of tbe Provincial Council at the usual time, and they do so folding -a.9-.ured tnat the trade, settlement, and interests of the public in general will otherwise suff ,V. \, A party have left by tho steamer Maori to establish a fish-curing station at Preservation Inlet. Br/u_?F, Sunday. The Arawata clewed Port Phillip H» ads at 4H5 pm. on the SiOth, and Wilson's Promontory at 3 a.m. on ihe following morniog; experienced weat and soul h-w est win-In, with fine weather, and arrived at the Bluff at 7 am. to-day, making the trip in four dayß thirteen hours. Pas.ed the Otago 200 miles west of the Bluff" at noon yesterday, bhe brings 333 tons of cargo, 83 saloon paesen gers (including Simonsen'g Opera Troupe), and 4 1 steerage, for all ports. Saloon p_BSfe'ogera for Nelson — Messrs Brickwall and Tut*.'-?* an d four in the steerage. She Bails for Duaec" , in at 10 a.m on Monday. •Wellington, Saturday. Captain W OTS Pt °* tlie i^cebe, has accepted «he commaaa of the Union Company's s.s. Taupo, in placO P f Captain Macfarlane. Captain Andrew*; pf the Ladybird, succeeds to the command of tho i'heebe. Aiamt^m, Saturday, i The.schooner Opotika, whi/jb . went ashore War Napier, is insured in the New Zealand office id? £500. TJWYftlue of flke f-rasael toi J6760. . ,

A ca«e of scarlet fever o icorred among the Salisbury's itu rail, rant* at the depot, and the pasttngtrj have been isolat*)d.