INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 41, 16 February 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL .

Wellington, Thursday. His Excellency and suite, with the Premier, leave in the,Hinemoa for Hokitika on Monday evening* next, and will be present at the representative firing on one or two days. They^will leave-Hokitika on Thursday night or F rtdjiy^qrnijng, will visit Greymouth on Friaay/and Westport on Saturday, leaving for Wellington that night. The balance-sheet to be submitted at the aninlal meeting of the New Zealand Times Company. this; month, shows a profit on the . yeat.qf; X.lpOQ, besides wiping off a loss of J62000 on the previous year. The Directors' report states this to be the result of six months' forking under new management. The Government have completed arrangements with the.. Bank of New Zealand for advances to the extentof £1,000,000, which ■with the _; 455,00,000 borrowed in Australia, will,' it is "understood, enable the Government to avoid- resort to the London '-- market for two years. -!_ . V'' " Friday. Adout !; 6w6 o'clock this mdrning a fire was ;S discovered in the hold of the ship Himalaya, | lying alongside the wharf. The smoke and .'neat were so great that it was impossible to go down below the hatches to work, and an enteancev wag effected to , the after hold, • where the fire was got at by, breaking through *: the cabin. For several hours there were four streams of water kept playing into the hold fche final extinguishment of the fire. The ship's watchman was picked up dead below, and is supposed to have fallen down ■;-.. the hatchway and then got smothered. Two .men of t^e Central Brigade were also picked . up senseless in vtna..hold; from suffocation but they recovered. A great portion of the , cargo had beeri landed. -iV.is impossible at pceaenfc,tp estimate the damage, which must be t t6aSM6table^ r ( - iC " . --

Dunedin, Thursday. There are at. present nine prisoners for trial at the ensuing session of the Supreme Court, to be held on the first Monday in April, and one female far trial for infanticide at the Supreme Court, on the 2oth March. With the change from the Provincial adminstration, the monthly escorts appear to have disappeared, for no continuance have been received by the Treasury Department; the probability is that the Banks will forward their returns at their own responsibility in future. " . . In the Cit^r Police Court to-day, Mr Watt, R.M., decided that playing billiards, to determine who should pay for the hire of a table.was , gambling, and inflicted a nominal penalty in a case of this kind brought before him. Christchdhch Thursday. MrE. C. J.Stevens, M.H.RI, for Christchurch, addresses bis constituents on Monday next. . . . . The cricketers are practising carefully for the All-England match. Freeth the principal bowler, who did not play against Otago, is still unwell and cannot play in the coming match. Lake, the principal batsman, also cannot play; .. Napier, Thursday. • Sutton is returned unless there is an error in the numbers; The total polling given is— Sutton, 81?.; Buchanan, 296; Tiffin, 123; Colenso, 13." Last evening Rhodes announced he would 'retire in favor of Tiffin, and only seven were recorded to him. . ' '. Auckland, Thursday. ,' The i schooner Canterbury cleared to-day for Rotumahah, with Sterndale, Mair, W. J. ' Hunt, J. Neale, and Mrs Sterndale. The 'Bell Brandon, Henderson and Macfarlane's schooner, will sail on Saturday, and it is "expected that both vessels will race for Suwarrow. . Mr Passmore has arrived to attend the railway inquiry. ; • ' 1 The Englishman who was imprisoned for seventy days on Wallis Island for striking: a French priest, is Mr or Captain J. Dawsou, brother of a draper in Dunedin. Feathebston, Friday. . Wairarapa Stakes of £75, added to asweep .of £2. = Three miles. Tambourini, 1 ; Lady of the Lake, 2; Elsa, 3. Three others ran. Dine took a strong lead for the first mile, Treason and Elsa lying second, and Tarn- j bourinl. following. This position was kept till the beginning of the last round when Tambourini- rushed ahead, increasing the lead to"i00 yards. Lady of the Lake, who was held too long, rushed into second place. Maiden Plate of £40. Stirabout, 1 ; Blanche, 2; "Queen of Tanera, 3. A slow race, which, was a gift to Stirabout, who won by three or four lengths, hard held. Riverton, Friday. The steamer Halcyon is completely broken up, not a vestige of her is seen except some portions of : timber and cargo, which has . washed ashore. None of , her cargo was insured. The vessel was insured in the National. Insurance Company for £400, and the South British for £200.