INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 70, 11 March 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Bluff, Saturday. The Ringarooma with the Suez mail arrived this morning. She has for Nehon two saloon passengers, Messrs Dodds and Jack, four in ithe steerage, and five tons of cargo. Auckland, Friday. The Edinburgh Castle has arrived from London' with 22 passengers, all well. Bhe had a protracted passage of 120 days. The carbine champion will receive un enthusiastic reception to-morrow. A gun carriage /will be provided to draw him in triumph from the station. j • Wellinotom, Friday. It is understood that the Government will provide passages from the Thames for men to work on the Wellington and Maßterton 1 Railway. Mr Oakes, contractor, has, through a Thames agent, engaged about 150 men. It is probnble a steamer will be sent direct from the ' Thames to Wellington if a suitable vessel can be chartered. Mr O'Shea reports— Flour, £10 15s to £1 1 2Sr'6di wheat, no sales oats, 2s to 2s 3d; - maize,' 3s 9d to 4s 6d; potatoes, 80s to 90s; ham and bacon, lid to Ib; pollard, 4s. .»■-.•■:' baturday. The contractor for Tborndon reclamation having got into difficulty with his sureties, the latter, yesterday, drew from the Provincial chest abont £900 due to the contractor as progress money, and immediately paid off all the workmen, stating to them that they would not- be sureties any longer. " : Christchurch, Friday. The Senate of the New Zealand University have decided to appoint a Registrar and Secretary of £400 per annum. Applications are to 'be invited in' all the provinces. It is resolved to ask the Government to incur no delay in applying for a Royal Charter in order that aii examination for B.A. degree may be Jield next May, and another in November, and fihat the annual examination of undergraduates fbe held between October Ist and December Sist in any year. A large number of resolutions for the regulation of the various exami- „ %ri_ a nave been passed. P. S. Haig and Alex' ttnHer Lougbey h ftve been admitted to B.A decree. ' A motion by ihe Vice Chancellor •' T hat provision ought to be made for admission o^bac—lora oflaw to a degree in the University," waß postponed for consideration^ After conquering the pnggestions of the Master eof the Wellington College and others concerning the Court of Convocation, it Wil_ resolved, " That it » not advisable at present to alter the University Act in the manner suggested." Quotations t.o.b. at Lyttleton— wheat, 4s •fti oato, 2s; barley, 3« 9d;.flQ»W, *1° to -fill*

bran, £4; sharps £4 10s; cheese, sd; gras* seed, 5s 61; butter, ls to Is ld; hams tuil bacoo, Is 2d.!. ; Pout; Chalmsrs, Saturday The whaling b irque Splendid sailed Jai>t ■ night, and fell in \*ith whiles outside, and killed one which produced Ul barrels oil. .