INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 94, 7 April 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Thursday. The following are the credentials and instructions of Messrs Gisborne, Seed, and Knowles, on their visit to the several provinces : — The Commissioners take letters of introduction to all the Superintendents, who sre asked to assist with their views on the points upon which the Commission are seeking advice, also asking the Superintendents to introduce the Commission to members of the Executive and officers of the provincial service, and allow of their access to provincial offices. The Superintendents ara also furnished with a copy of the instructions to the Commis doners. The substance of tbem is as follows : — First, to obtain in r ormation requisite f.r preparing and submitting to the Assembly the estimates for carrying on public services in the provinces during the coming year. The changes are not to be so suddenly made as to cause local lconvenience, and, therefore, while tome departments are at once incorporated with the General Government, it may be found desirable to continue for a time others on a more local footing. It is for them to arrange to make local payments for contracts in progress, which, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be effected, will devolve upon the local governing 1 odies. The Government intend to incorporate, as Btated hereinafter, Provincial with General Government services, in some respects, such as land and education administration. This incorporation will mean little more than the appointment of the General Government department, with which it will be the duty of the local department to correspond. With respect to charitable institutions the Commissioners are merely to indicate their present cost and footing, as they will be handed over to locil control without any iutcrveniug chaaga by the Colonial Government. The Commissioners are merely to report on the present cost and standing of various police forces; to suggest to the the Government the appropriations which they think necf Bsary ; also to indicate the office which they think may be dispensed with without injury to the service. Tbe Commissioners are to defer as much as possible to the advice of the Superintendents, and when they do not concur, to represent it to tha Government. The Commissioners are to be carelul to treat Superintendents with the respect their high positions merit, and to remember that their Junctions still continue, and that the General Government are not entitled to more at present than to seek information which will enable them to discharge the responsibilities which the law devolves upon them. After next session, Provincial Auditors, being General Government officers, will render every assiitanco. The following transfers of provincial departments are proposed: — All Executive departments connected with incomplete clerical work, such as keeping records, &c, to be in the Coloniil Secretary's Department; Public Forces, Ministers of Justice, Crown Lands, Survey, GoldQe'ds, and Inspectors of Sheep, Secretary ot Crown Lands Department; Railways, Public Works, and Public Plantations, Minister of Public Works Department; Harbors, Commissioner of Customs, and Education, Minister of Justice Department; Hospitals, Lunatic Asylums, Iniustiid, Charitable Institutions, Orphan Asylums, Public Libraries, and Museums (subject to arrangement to b 3 made for continuance of local control for charitable institutions), to bo in Colonial Secretary's Department The following ts'egram was received from Messrs Gisborne, Seed, and Knowles on their departure from Canterbury : — " On concluding our work hero to-day, we proceed io Dunedin. We have received every possible assistance from his Honor the Superintendent and the officers of the Provincial Government." Ths General Government sends the following telegram to the Superintendent of Canterbury : — 'The Government thank your Honor for the courteous assistance you and the Provincial Government officers have given to Messrs. Gisborne, Seed, and Knowles" The Government have received a letter from Mr Seymour, the Superintendent of Marlborough, expressing his utmost readiness to assist the Commission in their work in every way. Dunedin, Friday. Proceedings have been taken against J. G. S. Grant, the well-known agitator, for hawking goods without a license. The goods are copies of his works aud Mr Pownell's pamphlet, *' Our land laws— what thould be their basis?" In the grain market there is a fair business in wheit at fiom 4s 3d for ordinary, to 4s 7d aid 4 j 3d; barley is offering freely, and the b:st lots command s*, {but there is a great deal of indifferent quality. The demand for oats continues, and deliveries have not been large, prime milling, 2s; good feed, ls 9d to Is lOd. Thfs morning Mr Bathgate, R.M., gave judgment io the case of the firemen against Captain Worsp of the Phoebe for plaintiffs fr amounts chimed. Mr Stout, for the defendant, applied for leave to appeal. The Magistrate refused, aud sud the proceedings of the Company in engaging the men for six months at fixed wages and then dismissing tbem bscause they wouldn't agree to a reduction of wages was one that could not bo . defended. Ltttelton. Thursday. The Colitna is being ligh.encd It is intended to sen I her to Port Chalmers. The lumpers society men struck work today for two shillings an hour, and to he paid for the whole day iv the event of working part then of. The stevedores have engaged other hands. Auckland, Thursdoy. The Ferry Company are about to increase their capital from £5000 to £20,000. The master of the quarantine station reports in reference to the Pearl that all the crew are in good health. The Harbor Board have resolved tbat the Bh : p be admitted to pratique. Friday. The Luna with the Governor and suite has arrived from Taurangß. Major Pitt's bribery case is now beiore a common jury. Tauranga, Thursday. The Governor arrived to-day in the Luna, and was mt by the principal real lentp. He drove to the Gate Pah and cemetery. No landing was effected at White Island, owiog to the heavy swell. Friday. Capt. Morris, one of tha candidate- at the election lor East Coast, has been ssrved with a summons to appear at Poverty Bay on the 18th instant, for bribery at the elections there. Alexandra, Thursday. Winiata is still refilling at Kuiti. The Ngatim-tniapofcos will not give him up. There are now some forty murderers and accomplices at Kuiti and its vicinity.