INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 140, 5 June 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

AocKLiND, Saturday. The Superintendent addressed a letter to the Marquis of Normanby, asking permissioi to institute legal proceedings relative to the Pinko swamp sale. The Governor replied that he had forwarded the letter to his responsible advisers in Wellington. Sir . George Grey asked him to send copies of all the letters that have passe i relative to dealing with the Native lands to the Secretary of State The Governor consented. A deputation from the Kifle Association waited upon Sir Donald M'Lean, and represented the inferior nature ot the Snider rifles and ammunition, which prevented the Volunteers from qualifying for the Colonial firing Sir Donald M'Lean promised to attend to the matter. Chbi3tchubch, Saturday. The Waimate steeplecbase was highly successful. The Waimate Handicap, 100 soys , 3 miles, wa« won by Frazer'g Banjo, O'Brien's Auckland Kate, second. Tommy Dr-dd was scratched. The Maiden Plate — Williams's Fakir, 1; Hedge's Brunnete, 2. Waimate Cup— lTrazer's Banjo, 1; Campbell's Tcnmy Do »d, 2; Nicholson's Butcher Boy, 8. ConsolatioB — Tommy Dodd, 1; Butcher Boy, 2. Dunbdin, Saturday. The Breach of Promise action — Miss ,C!»mpbell v. J. Shand, of Taieri — has been settled by defeadant paying £800 and all costs. Monday, Bishop Moran delivered a strong discourse on Educational matters last evening, and expressed his determination to still demand a share of the public expenditure for Catholic Schools. Alexandra, Saturday. The aukati has been removed, and produce is freely coming in. A Maori settlement is being removed to Ropua, near the confiscated boundary.