INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 119, 11 May 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

.;.- ''•:.' ■;. \ Auckland, Wednesd»y. Sir George Grey has addressed a letter to. the Civil Commissioners in which he says her le*ros from his Provincial!* reasurer that tKe information they require is so simple and ordinary that he would have furnished it with pleasure to the Colonial Secretary^ and does, not understand why it ehouldjhave been thought necessary to send three gentlemen" to' obtain it. Sir Georee Grey also wishes to know who is agent for the General Government at Auckland understandirig-that a'Ministier of the Crown is at present discharging the duty He comments strongly on this, and generally upon civil servants holding portfolio* in « he Ministry. , „ Dunbdin, Wednesday. jThe motion for, the appointment . of a paid Eire Brigade In the place of volunteers did not fldd a seconder. |TBe Qitjf Council have' recommended „ that competitive desigosbe invited for a City=hall. Prizes of j£2oo, £150, & jEIOO will be giveo for the threfrbest. The building will be ; very ex- • tensive, and include a hall,, capable of Beating : two thousand personpi. The matter will be;:considered on Monday at a epecial meeting of the Council. :,-•,, I r Thursday. 'The, Education Board this morning deferred the' consideration of numerous applications for additions to school buildings, new 'schools, and appointment of teachers, owing: to the Government having no.fuads at their disposal. '-'•./' ! . " Wellington, Thursday. At a general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce it was resolved to for,m<a. Harbor Board, and to acquire, for ,£6o*ooo the Queen's wharf and TeAro foreshore of 72 acre », the corporation having cdntr'ol over the drainage ;and sewerage. One-sixth of the land is fco be handed over to the corporation for public .reserves. The Government is to be communicated with to learn what endowment they will grant the Board, and whether they will introduce the necessary Bill into Parliament. j Sailed — Taupo, for Nelson and Northern pprts., ; Passengers — Miss Spratt, Master Nairn, Messrs Davis, London, W. Dunlock, Owen, and Nairn. . ...