INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 71, 13 March 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

.'•■/*•-. DpNEDtw, Monday. •When ibe steamer Coomerang was leaving •••Rattray-street Wharf at midnight on S-itur-■day, part of the. boiler gave way, and one t>man and two-cirouß.horees were scalded. CHBiBTCH!orBOH, Saturday. The General Government purpose erecting

a new Resident Magistrates Courthouse at an early date, io cost £4500. The Senate of the New Zealand University yesterday .resolved that the next meetlner te held in Nelson, commencing on the first Wednesday in March; also, that the Chancellor „ be requested to obtain information from the Senate of the London University on the sub-, ject of extension generally to New Zealand of their matriculation examinations, and on that of enabling persons in this colony to compete for the Gilchrist Scholarship, now understood to be open, of £100 a year, belonging to the London University. Wbllinoton, Saturday. •Fir Julius Yogel purposes, weather permitting, to leave for Wanganui on Tuesday evening next, to 'address his constituents on Thursday evening, and to leave Wanganui for Wellington on Friday next. Monday. Arrangements have been made whereby the reclamation contract is being proceeded with again. Port Chalmbbs, Saturday. Failed— Waimate, ship, for London, with 25 passengers and the following cargo: — 5446 bales wool, valued at £108,920; 23 hales leather, £1000; 5o cases, meat, £100; 190 toDs manganese, £1900; sundries, £100; total, £112,020; 8 boxes gold, £20,000; grand total, £190,020. Invercargill, Monday. The Town Council of Riverton are about to memorialise the Minister of Public Works praying for the intervention of the Colonial Government respecting the abuses connected with the construction of public works in the Southland district by the Provincial Government of Otago. '