INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 270, 14 November 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVI NCIAL.

[press agency.] Wellington, Tuesday. Mr Sheehan will make his statement on native affairs to-inorrow. Mr Stafford asked, without notice, to-day when the Financial Statement would be. made. .Mr Larnach said if Mr Stafford gatt. a formal 1 notice ltd ask he would tell him. It is believed that the Statement wiil be brought down to:p_oreow./i, Sir George Grey has requested k deputation from, the City Council to confer with him on the subject' of banging the Contagious Disease Act; into force at Wellington. It was arranged that the deputation should wait upon him. to-morrow. « •*, - , t • .. Frederick Gillen, recently tried, for rape on. a little girl, received his flogging of, 25. .lashes to-day. Tlie prisoner suffered severely, and howled piteously during the flagellation'.; Twenty-five shares in the, New Zealand Shipping Company were auctioned to-day at £4,25i j6d each; 60 National Insurance,at 30s and 31s; 50 • Standard Insurance at 20s. Some Union; Company's were put up, but withdrawn, i . . ! Wednesday. A letter has been received from, the Australian Cricketers by the secretary of'the' Wellington Association whose terms.have been accepted by the . Australians. They may be expected here by the end bf January'. It is very probable that Mr Sheehan will not be able to make his statement of native affairs to-night, as he is now suffering from an attack of quiusey which came on late last night. The ship Zealandia was this morning admitt, d to pratique, after fourteen days quarantine. ;./. The Wellington and Masterton line of rail '• way will not be opened to Kaitoke before the end of the year; owing to the Mahgarua tunnel not being sufficiently advanced. A deputation of City Councillors waited upon the Premier regarding the Contagious Diseases Act, and he informed them that he would not recommend the Governor to bring that Act into force in Wellington. '.

Ch&istchurch, Wednesday. , The Aclimatisation Society complain that they only received 50,000 salmon ova, being ,the number paid for by the Society, and that jthe 100,000 promised by the General Go ver njment have not come to hand. Over 100 young fry are already hatched ont. The Secretary of the -Board of Education ■has held an enquiry into the charges against the. master of the Loburn School for whipping Catholic children who ref used tb take part in Bible lessons! The evidence was not ■very clear, but seemed to show that, though juot compelled to read the Bible some Catholic chiidren had been made to write jßible lessons: The Board will consider the imatter further.

i Rekfton, Wednesday. The Reefton Jockey Club race programme is issued for the 26th and 27th of December. The aggregate stakes amount £.75, a Cup of £130 sovs., two other handicaps of 65 sovs. each, two hurdle races of 30 sovs. each, and other events. Nominations close on the 24th November, and acceptances on the 21st December.

Picton, Wednesday. Very rich specimens have been brought iu from the Golden Point reef near here.

Dunedin, Tuesday. Messrs Renshaw, Deniston, and Co. to-day received a telegram stating that the Queeu of the South, from Mauritius, had been wrecked on Acton Reef. The crew and passengers are safe, but all the cargo is lost. The vessel was owned by C. A. Turner, of Lyttelton. A large portion of the cargo is consigned to Christchurch, and the insurances ou it are not known here. The insurances on the Dunedin portion, are South British, £2750; United Company, Sydney. £2000; National, £500. • . -,>

At the request of Professor Hiveridge, of the Sydney University, Professor Hutton was granted permission to deliver forty lectures on geology in the Sydney University during the Lent term.

Port Chalmers, Wednesday.' Dr Drysdale reports that scarlet fever has entirely disappeared.