INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 182, 24 July 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Saturday. To-day there were more meetings of district members as io the course to be taken on the Government policy and proposition. The Westland members met, End are understood to have agreed to support the Governme.-t on their abolition policy. The other meetings had.for their end a conference of provincial representatives. Auckland, Saturday. At the nominat'on to-day for City Wrst, Mr Tonks and Mr Farnell were proposed. The meeting wa? entirely in favor of Mr Tonka, but the others declared ths-ir determination to go to the p 11. C.ip'ain Daldy considered it an insult t . City West for Mr Farnall to come forward while he owed the city s-vc-n hundred p mnds; and he moved that the meeting request Mr Tonka to proceed to Wellington as early as possible, pledging itself to secure his retnrn. Moiiun carried. Mr Tonks at tha reque. t of the electors leaves ior Wellington on Monday, trusting to his supporters to secure his return. Dunedin, Mondiy, In the cas. of Mcßraidge _. Brog len, for injuries sustained by plaintiff from a causally on the railway line near Oamaru, in which damages were laid at XI ,500, a verdict for -.4(0 was returned. Tho Guardian says, that the gentleman appointed by the Government as Lunacy Commissioner is a Dr. Serae, late of the district asylum in Stirling, Scotland. 8.-.uff, Saturday. The trial of Captain Thompson's patent boat lowering and dc-t idling apparatus was made here to-day. A boat, s. cured for eea, was put; in the water, ten feet clear of the Bide, by men who lia-i never eeen it before, in eight seconds, and wifcho-rs out in fifteen. Nautic .1 men ot atind'mg who witness. d it, pronounce it much superior to anything known.