INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 172, 19 August 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

fPBKSS AGENCY."] Wellington, Monday. A caucus of Native members of both Houses was held to-day, when all were present except Ivaritana. They are going to ask the Government to hiing iu a new Bill to provide for additional Maori representation, by which the North Island would obtain two more members, and the South Island one member; also to do away with the Maori double vote, except when the Maoris are ratepayers, who should be allowed to vote for Europeans as well as for Maoris. Sailed : Wellington, for Picton and Nelson Gaunn, and 4 Natives. It is understood that at a caucus of members to-day, the majority resolved to move in the House that it adjourn from Friday next for ten days in order to enable the members to witness the opening of the Christchuroh and Dunedin Railway. Auckland, Monday. William Long, a laborer in Hobson-street attempted suicide by hanging yesterday but was discovered in time. During the voyage of the Lady Jocelyn small pox broke out soon after leaving London but owing to the prompt action taken at 1 p.m. Passengers : — MessrsPerkins, and by the doctor, who separated the patient3, the disease did, not spread.

Blenheim, Saturday hi/jhfc. The foot race to-day for £100 a side between M'lvor and Ha.rfc, tdti yards and 150 yards, was wem feasily by Hart. , . CiißisxcHnkcHi Monday. The test case agaiust a cabman jfor living round corners faster tfa'&n at a walking pace lias been withdrawn by the City Council. John Slipper, a .schoolmaster At Mount Grey Downs, tried to commit feuicliic oh Saturday afternoon iu au outhouse near the railway platform at Seftou by cutting his throat with a penknife. He had been drinking, it is said', in consequence bf An linSaVar* able report \>y the Inspector oi'Sehools which p'HeySt! bu his mind, lie lies iu a precarious condi i mi. Kennedy's, Cheevers, and Bent's minstrels opened , to a crowded lipuse oil SjAturdaVi ;iud hundreds were iiu'db'le Id gaiu admission downstairs. At a meeting of the Charitable Aid Board on Saturday night the opinion was expressed that it had a bad effect on the patients having all dead bodies removed to the morgue so ' near to the main building. The agitation in favor of the "West Coast railway continues. It is thought that if the Canterbury members work together they will be able to curry the extension from Amberley, though it is feared that the Minister for Public Works will work against them iu favor of Otago.