INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 259, 29 November 1876, Page 2

INTERPRO VINCIAL.

|i ": : -Wellington, Wednesday. The Qinemoa sailed for Napier at 2 p.m. Passengers: Sir Donald M'Lean, Hon Dr Pollen, Air Sheahan, M.H.R., Mr. Richmond Befcham, K.M., nice Scaly, and some natives, j . Gkahamstown, Wednesday. | The Hon F. Whitaker arrived yesterday. He attended the Sir Walter Scott Lodge last \ night, and; >yas affiliated to the Scottish: i Masonry for the purpose of taking office as Provincial Grand Master of the Scottish Constitution'^ the North Island, to which post he has been elected. The affiliation took place in the presence of over one hundred Masonic brethren, and a banquet was held to celebrate the event, Mr Whitaker remains for a day or two to transact business. To-day he is with Messrs Mackay and Puckey, conferring with the natives re the. land, purchase and extension of the telegraph to Paeroa, the opposition to which is nearly removed. A movement is being commenced here to effect an" amalgamation of the borough and county. . . The stoppage of the big pump is threatened,: as there'is only enough of the £50,000 grant left to carry on for another month. Chkistchorch, Tuesday. Mr Garruthers, Engineer-in-Ohief for the Colony, has devised a scheme of drainage for Christenurclr and districts, which, provides ioi' 'underground sewers, from which the sewage will have to be pumped into a sewer leading to the Heathcote Eatuary. ' . ,

r, . Wednesday. iSefcween seventy and eighty thousand salmon ova have been hatched out. It is feared that the firing for the General >overamen District prizes will interfere with nraay of the volunteers attending the Otago.Eifle Association prize shooting, as ""; two take place about the same time. Ltforts- mil be made to get the dates for the lJistact prize firing altered. The firing for the selection of Qarbine representation at Colonial prize firing has commenced. The highest scores in the first competition are :— Sergeant Hill, 87; Sergeant-Major Fox, 86; Lieutenant Strange, 78; Gunner Patten, 74. w Auckland, Tuesday. Mr Whitaker has gone to the Thames, accompanied by Captain Eraser, to institute certain abolition arrangements. A sample of Kahvi Quartz has proved not" auriferous.