INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 256, 29 October 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[j?KKSS AGENCY.] , Hokitika, Saturday. Mr Peter Purcell, a member of the Grey County Council, committed suicide by hanging himself in his store this morning. No cause is known. He was universally respected. Aucklano, Saturday. The eutries last night for the Auckland Handicap of of 200 sovs, were— Mr Edwards' Baron, 3 yrs; Mr Ilorsef all's Ratcatcher, 3 yrs; Mr Caulton's Gillie Callum, 5 yrs; Mr Ray's Danebury, 4 yrs ; Mr Ray's Bide-a-Wee, aged; Mr Bolton's Lara, 5 yrs ; Mr Walter's Hippocampus, 4 yrs; Mr Walter's Venus Transit, 3 yrs; Mr Watt's Longlands, 3 yrs; Mr Vavasour's Gang Forward, 4 yrs; Mr Delamine's Oberon, 5 yrs;MrDelamiua's Parthenopeus, 3 yra; Mr Chadwick's Elsa, 5 yrs. Racing Club Handicap of 100 sovs— Mr Horsetail's Rosalie, 3 yrs; Mr Caulton's Gillie Callum, 5 yrs; Mr Lyon's Taweta, 4 yrs; Mr Ray's Danebury, 4 yrs, and Bide-a-Wee, aged; Mr Bolton's Lara, 5 yrs; Mr Walter's Hippocampus, 4 yr3, and Venus Transit, 3 yrs; Mr Buckland's Queen Mab, 3 yrs; Mr Delanrain's Oberon, 3 yrs, and Parthenopeus, 3 yrs; Mr Chadwick's Elsa, 5 yrs; Mr M'Gee's Luna, 5 yrs. Handicap Steeplechase of 150 sovs— Mr Horsefall's Whitefoot, aged; Mr Bobbett's The Arrow, aged; Mr Bolton's Tom Finn, 6 yrs; Mr Percival's Greyhound, aged; Mr Vavasour's Shaugran, 5 yrs; Mr Edgar's The Don, aged; Mr Stevens' Don Juan, aged; Mr Buckland's Butcher Boy, aged, and Auckland Kate, aged; Mr M'Gee's Perfume, aged ; Mr Crosbie's Nira, 5 yrs. Wellington, Monday. Last night Bishop Redwood delivered a charity sermon at St. Mary's in aid of the Indian Famine Relief Fund. He said that our fellow creatures should be helped irrespective of color or creed, or their distance from us. Fifty pounds were collected at the conclusion. Similar sermons were preached at the other Catholic Churches, and £40 were collected. The Chamber of Commerce has issued circulars to the employers of labor in the town inviting their co-operation in regard to the Australian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition by giving prizes for the young people to compete for such as ornamental articles, medals or cash. All the Zealandia's passengers are in excellent health and ashore at the quarantine station. The crew remain on board, and all of them are well and at work. The services of a doctor have not been deemed necessary, but the vessel will bave to remain the regular time in quarantine, that is about a fortnight. It is understood tbat the division on the no-confidence motion be taken some time tonight. Both parties are s inguine of winning by a small majority of one or two. Over £1000 have been oollected here towards the Indian Famine relief fund, £900 being lodged in the New Zealand and Union B-nks,*and subscriptions are still coming in. Tauranga, Monday. Subscriptions for the Indian Famine relief fund are coming in satisfactorily. A good deal of uneasines is felt about the Manawatu, which left here on Thursday for Wanganui. She was passed by the Ringarooma, bound for Nelson, the same day in Cook's Straits, where a violent westerly gale, was blowing and a heavy sea running, the Eingarooma being only able to make slight headway against the gale 'Lyttelton, Monday. "Captain Renner of the Hannah Barratt reports that at 4 p.m. on Friday, when about 15 miles south of tbe Kaikouras, and some seven or eight miles off the mouth of the Conway lliver,i he passed a derelict vessel and bearing down he found it to be the schooner Clan Alpine of Auckland, floating with her stern eight or ten feet out of water and almost perpendicular. The Clan Alpine, Capt. James Smart, left here for Hokitika on Tuesday with a cargo of potatoes, bacon, cheese and other produce. She was owned by J. M'Callum and Co., of Auckland. Theie were three hands on board besides the captain, all young men. The mate was a native of Port Glasgow. It is feared that all hands are lost. Port Chalmers, Monday. The N.Z.S. Company's ship Pareora, which sailed from London on the 27th July was towed in this morning, after a fine weather passage. She was blown off the port on the I morning of the 27th, and was towed in this morning. She brings 33 passengers and 1300 tons of cargo.