INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 232, 21 September 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wanganoi, Thursday. The schooner Arthur Wakefield has arrived from Nelson. She left there at the end of last and got among the breakers at. Wangahui, about ten miles below the Wanganui river on Monday night, and on Tuesday morning Captain John Watts and th -• cook, a foreigner, were washed overboard and drowned.

Dunedin, Wednesday. The Times to-day saya that a gentleman in Scotland writing to a Dunedin friend by the last mail, says the Stella and Hinemoa, both of which the newspapers said had been built' as 'yachts for the Marquis of Normanby, have in reality been built for the Colonial Government. It is asserted, he says, ' that the steamers are regular jokes, flimsily built, and exorbitantly charged for. He states that a gentleman connected with a steamboat company in one of the neighboring colonies remarked of the Stella and Hinemoa that there would be a fine row about them when they got out to New Zealand.

Thursday. Messrs Macandrew and Stout have expressed their disappointment at the conduct of the memorialists in condemning the course they hare pursued. Mr Macandrew attributes to this the preservation of Otago's revenues. He saya it would have been better had they asked their representatives to resign months ago rather than to have left them fighting, charged, as they now are, with having done so against the opinions of their constituents.

It is understood that Messrs Macandrew and Stout contemplate resigning. The Political Committee last night carried the following resolution ;■— " That this committee believes the letter of Messrs Cargill, Eish, and others totally misrepresents the people of Dunedin and of the province generally, and considers it necessary to request the city representatives to meet the constituency in public meeting assembled in order to satisfy themselves as to the state of public feeling, and also to provide for the worst by concerting means for our own protection through the medium of the Provincial Council or otherwise, but that in our opinion before leaving the Assembly they should make it clearly understood that whatever measures affecting the welfare of this people may be agreed to, they wiil not undertake that such measures shall be respected by the people of this province."