INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 66, 7 March 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Monday The schooner Opotika. which was stranded on the ba-idi and abandoned, has been got off an_ towed to the Spit (Napier), she is not much damaged, and the sale ib withdrawn. She is in tbe hands of the N Z. Insurance Company. . Owing to the very fine weather and the smartness of the local Hgoot, Mr Dobson, the company has escaped henry loss. A lt.rgc number of Maoris are assc-raMed at Olive for a greut gathering 10 lake place this we i k, on "the occasion < _ the exhibition of the bones of the Chief Pe Maonui, buried there twelve years ago. Natives from all parts of lh© colony arc present There wid b- a large consumption ot eatables nnu drinkanles, a;<d the probable expenditure will be some thousand pounds. Mr Routledge sold privately seven rams for £300. Christcbtjrch, Monday. The Senate of the New Zealand Uuiversity'is' now sitting here. On opening the session, tbe Chancellor read an exhaustive report of the proceedings of the University during the year. Alter centering the failure of the Bol_>lars to pasß tbe iast University examination, the Senate resolved that the scholars of tbe je« 1874 appear to have misunderstood the regulation* for tbe retention of tbeir scholarships, and such scholarships be continued till tbe next examination to all those scholars who in the examination et, 1875 gained half marks in subjects for which scholarships are awarded Applications for ad eundem degrees ware considered, and the following were then admitted to the various degrees : — M. A, Kev. J. 0. Andrew, Messrs Colbourne, Veele, J. M'Gr.gor, ami C. jft,~ Haughton; 8.A., Mr 11. C. Adamsj M.D., M*_srs P. Doyle and B. Doyle-, M.8., Mr A. JR. Nuwrnan; L.L._ , Mr A. Lougburg (?). Dtjnedin, Monday. •At a meeting of the ■.-»aii--ru Insurance Company the report was adopted. Messrs Jonn Keid and Wil iam Royse were elected cantors. A. Begg was re-elected auditor. o)he salvage ca>e« Houghton and Co., the owner* : Q*! j&e steame"? Express, against James Galmaith *tud Co., Glasgow, owners of ihestearofrT^irpa^o jfotoTSj £ * u ?* J aß In "the Aafyir&l.fcjr fwi

and will be continued tomorrow 'Ihrclaim is m-ide for sen vice renderel after the Tairoa ran ashjre at Dog Island on the loth December