INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 180, 29 August 1878, Page 2

INTERPRO VINCIAL.

fPHEBB AGENCY.] m L Christchurch, Thursday. -The banquet to the Wellington and Dunedm visitors takes place in the Provincial Council Chamber on Thursday next On the arrival of the Governor be will be met on the platform and presented with an address.

Yesterday the engine of the Oxford line ran off the lines and the points at liangiora in consequence of their being locked in compliance with an order recently given. J

A Are occurred at 2 o'clock this mornine by which the shops occupied by Mr lieid iisnmonger, and Mr Greston fruiterer, were totally destroyed. They belonged to Tilman and Ponsford. The buildings were insured for £300 in^the Victoria. There were no insurances on the furniture or stock. The termination of the grain season hag led to a considerable diminution of the working staff on the railways. A petition numerously signed is to be at once forwarded by the Mayor of Kangiora to the House of Assembly, praying the Government to carry out the extension of the northern railway from Amberley to Hokitika via Ahaura and Greymouth, with a line from Ahaura to Reefton, and eventually to connect Christchurch with Nelson At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society yesterday it was resolved to communicate with Professor Spencer Eaird of Washington with a view to the acclimatisation of American white trout in New Zealand, as well as to secure such a description of American game birds as are likely to prove useful to the Colony.

, T , Waitara, Thursday. News was brought here this morning by a native that the schooner Kaiuma, which left here on the Hth iust. with a cargo of c . at]e 1 " a total wreck off that place and that ail hands perished. Wellington, Friday. bailed : Wellington, for Picton and Nelson, at 1 p.m. Passengers: Miss Nation, Mrs Webley and 3 children, Messrs Goodwin, Cross, aud seven in the steerage. Port Chalmers, Thursday. Arrived, barque Inglewood, 89 days from London. She brings 1G passenger, 1900 tons of cargo, five tons of gunpowder, and one Clydesdale entire. A valuable Clydesdale mare died 15 days after leaving London. She experienced moderate weather till the 18th instant in lat. 46, long. 130, when a fearful W.S.W. gale was encountered. A heavy sea boarded her and smashed the wheel, binnacle, taft'rail, skylights .and companion. The ship was hove to for 28 hours and a temporary wheel was rigged and the ship made snug. Great credit is due to Capt Backstart for his exertions. She 'spoke the Helen Denny from London bound for Nelson 50 days out, on July Biu lat. 20 S. 32 W. '