INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 174, 22 August 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[rr.Kss AtiEKcr,! Wellington, Thursday. Sailed- Wellington for Pictou and Nelson at 1 pm. Passengers — Mrs Brown and family, Messrs Brakewell, Moreby, College ' football team, and six in the steerage. Q ckkxstoavx, Thursday. Several portions of the skeleton of a large bird, supposed to be the Moa, have been found here. Judging from the appearance of the skin and feathers, the bird could not have been dead many years. All those who have seen the exhibit pronounce the bones to be those of a di norm's. Wanuaxli, Wednesday. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, Joseph Jessops, convicted for having an illicit still in his possession, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labor. Auckland, Wednesday. In consequence of a resolution passed by the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce about the tax on flour, Mr Firth addressed the following letter to Mr Stout :— " I hope you will not give way 70 the representations of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce re the tax on flour and grain. The Government have wisely resolved lo abolish both, and I hope they will not be influenced to withdraw from a resolution, at once both statesmanlike and wise.*' He received the following reply from Mr Stout this morning:—" I have replied to the Dunediu Chamber that New Zealand being a grain growing and food producing country, it does not require Government aid to protect the Colony against foreign grown food." Captain M'Kenzie, of the Anne Mokau, reports that he did not see or hear any signals of distress from the steamer Goahead. The captain of the latter writes " from what I know of Captain M'Kenzie, he would be the last to pass a vessel in distress. The Hinemoa, with 200 passengers and 130 tons of baggage, belonging to the Katikati immigrants, leaves for Tauranga at 10 p.m., and sails from thence to Wellington direct.