INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 42, 18 February 1878, Page 2

IN TER PROVINCIAL.

[press agency.] Wellington, Saturday night. A deputation, consisting of Messrs Seymour, George, J. C. Brown, and other conspicuous members of the Grey party, waited upon Mr Barton at the gaol this afternoon in order to endeavor to induce him to withdraw from the electiou, and urging that to allow two Grey candidates to stand would practically return Mr Pearce by splitting the — TJhp.riiL.Yrjl-nc TV.r«- ~*--» - n b u viutt/ij^ <le--clined to discuss the matter, saying that he had his own battle to fight, and knew what he was doing. All parties are very busy perfecting the arrangements for the election. Sir G. Grey and Messrs Macandrew and Fisher leave on Monday night by the Ilinemoa, calling first at the Buller, and then at Greymouth, Hokitika, Jackson's Bay, and aH the West Coast ports round to the Bluff. The police have received a telegram of the arrest of William Plumb, an important witness in the coming trial of Thomas Ryan for the murder of a mau at Kumara. It appears that the Greymouth luspector telegraphed that Plumb was about to abseut himself in order to avoid giving evidence. It has been decided to form a company to work the Golden Point reef, near Picton, with a capital of £10,000. Colonel Gorton has received a presentation from his fellow-officers upon bis retiring from the Civil Service.

Monday. Mr Sheehan has succeeded in settling satisfactorily the question of fishing rights and the drainage of the Wairarapa lake which has long been in dispute between the natives and tke adjoining runhojders. At a public meeting called by Mr Barton's son a vote of confidence in his father was unauimously passed.

Sailed: Wellington, for Picton aud Nelson Passengers: Messrs Crichton, G. B. Smallbone aud Wright, Mrs Jackson and two children, Mrs Monro and servant, Miss Goodman, and Mrs Syme.

Dunedin, Monday. A temperance profession was held yesterday under the auspices of the Rev. Father Henneberry and the Roman Catholic clergy of Dunedin. Those who took part in the procession were the persons who, during Father Henneberry's mission here, had taken the pledge of life-long abstinence from intoxicatiug liquors. The total number waa about 1500. Bishop Moran addressed the assemblage from the terrace above his residence. There was a large crowd gathered, numbering probably 3000 people, each of the processionists wearing a green sash aud temperance medal. Father Henuebe.rry explained that the greeu color chosen was not to be understood as giving the procession anything of a political or even a distinctive character. He simply chose green because he liked it. The streets .along which the procession passed wore lined with onlookers, aud at the street corners there were large gatherings. A statement was made by Father Henneberry that there were four million cases of infanticide yearly in the United States, and endorsed by Bishop Morau with the addition of an extra million This excited much comment, mid was regarded as a most extraordinary hallucination.

Mr G. M'Lean received an unanimous vote of confidence after his address to his constituents at the Flag Swamp on Friday night, aud at Milton on Saturday night a similar vote was carried unanimously,