INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 185, 4 September 1878, Page 2

IN TER PROVINCIAL.

TPBESS AGE_.cr.~j Ti._.r v Waitaba, Tuesday night, .me bo. Ahead arrived from Manukau toSL Ji l^^ I .^ reports that when six miles off Waikato, he picked up a ship's boat 18 feet ong painted white over blue inside, and black over white outside, a brass click and one iron bound black swivel hook with a portion of rope and a pulley iv the stern, quite new, three new knees and new thwart From all appearance it had not been long in the water. The boat does not belong to the Kaiuma. ,_■ ™ Chbistchubch, Wednesday. Mr Thomas Bracken, of Dunedin, last evening delivered a lecture on " The Glory of the Press " in aid of the Widow and Orphans' Fund of the Loyal Avon Lodge of Odd-Pel lows. There was a very large audience, and the lecture was a great success. At the Supreme Court yesterday, in the suit of Jeffreys t. Jeffreys, the husband sought for a divorce, on the ground of his •wife's adultery. The jury found for petitioner on all the issues. Hokitika, Wednesday, few The blockade of the port has been removed

by the recent freshes, and shipping business is resumed actively. There are four brigantines and three steamers at the wharf discharging. Wellington, Wednesday. IheHinemoa leaves at six this evening for Lyttelton with the members for the opening of the Christchurch aud Dunedin railway.