INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 64, 15 March 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

. Hokitika, Thursday i Scarlatina is so prevalent in town that the public schools have been closed until further notice. Two more deaths are reported, and one death has occurred daily for, several days past. Chiefly young people are attacked, butj the disease in the last two or three casss has been of a more malignant type. The Board of Health are now using every precaution to stay the spread of the disease. ; j ;-, _, «'. m ' Wellington, Thursday. Sailed— Taupp, for Northern ports, at 7 a.m. -Passengers— Mesdames Campbell and Lamgan, Misses Kiem'an jand Chaiwick, Messrs Pallott- Bowden, Duncan, Mitchell, Powell, Love, Benneft, Foley, LanigaS, and Campbell. V ; 'X V, ; WAkoANm, Wednesday. Hurdle Race: Wairarapa 1 , 1; Gazelle, 2; St. Albans, 3. Medora, Perfume, Cockatoo, and Victor alsp rah: . Perfume fell twice. Cockatoo and Victor also fell. Time, imihs 4|secs.: : j ■*"- . ; ■..'•'•'•: Handicap: Resolution, 1; Opa^a, 2 ? Elaa, 3. Maori. Weed, May Moon, Queen rbf the -Vale^ Ada, Peter, Frowning Beauty,r Flora, Folly, Monarch, and Xucifer also ran. IJt was a grand race, Resolution winning by a length, Elsa close upon Opawa, • ■• - -. :: Maiden: Onida, 1; Te Whetumarara, 2. Ada won the. Consolation. 1 :• i Auckland, Wednesday. The Accliraatizaton, Society of Auckland have resolved, to import 250,000 more salmon ova. | :• '-■■' In BaSco, tii-day, (Judge Gillies sustained tbe Registrar's decision releasing Sterridale gaol. V! . ! ■ V : In a T^nkruptcy case, it transpired ; that the bankrupt had passed all the stages'" on five proxies. No creditor being personally present, Judge Gillies considered such a proceeding an abominable farce, and refused to certify to bankrupt's discarge. ~ "''-'"' ' Thursdays - Sailed-r Taranaki, ,for South. Passengers for Nelson— Messrs Reid, Bruce, and Lynch; Dunedin, Wednesday. Daniel Barrett, aged. 20, was burned to. death at the. Waverley Boarding house' last' night. 1 -" -i- :■ - . „• ... ... j- - : •_• The railway returns for the month of February amount to .610,097. ' , • : Gbahajistown, Wednesday.* George Halliwell, late, lineman to the Telegraphic Department, who has , been missing for over a fortnight, is reported: by/ the Maoris as wandering in the bush demented. A: search party has gone but td look" fbr him. - „.!-.. _. . • .Thursday. lhe .missing man Halliwell was brought into town last night. He has been seventeen days in the bush without food. For some days he was demented, but is now rational and well, though much reduced from long privation. . -..■■-.•_ Blenheim, Thursday. The Marlborough County Council have passed a resolution not to adopt the full powers of the Act.