INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4, 4 January 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCI AL.

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Wellington, Friday. A deputation waited on the Government to day regarding the building of the railway station on the newly reclaimed land. The Government intimated that they would build one alongside Mills' foundry. They also said they intended to reclaim twenty acres at 1 lpilea Point for railway purposes. Ti • x.« , Friday night. It is notified in to-night' 3 Gazette by order in Council that the old tariff rates by which evening papers were allowed 500 words at evening rates between eight in the morning and five at night is extended to 1500 words during the same hours. Another schedule notifies that any proprietor or publisher of a newspaper or any persons, corporation, or company carrying on the business of press telegraph agents, or any business, the object of which is to obtain and transmit news, may have the use of a special wire but not at a less sum than £2000 per year, and if any extra copy of any snch telegram be required for any newspaper five shillings must be paid for every such copy so supplied. Messrs G. M. Waterhouse M.L.C., W. T. L. Traver9, and Thomas Mason have been reappointed Governors of the New Zealand Institute.

Mackie the Bank defaulter has been fully committed on both charges of forgery and larceny. The same bail as before was demanded, .'the prisoner in £500 and two securities in £250 each, but it wasnot forthcoming. Saturday. lhe amount collected at the cricket ground gates on New Year'a day during the Caledonian games was over £165 —The last San Francisco mail took away eighty-three nominations for Government immigrants. This is about the usual monthly average of nominations.—The Government estimate the proceeds from the sale of reclaimed land at £500,000 with which they purpose constructing the West Coast railway line (North Island).—The establishment of a high school for girls in Wellington is being agitated.— The whole of the female immigrants by the Hermione obtained situations at good wages almost immediately on arrival.— As soon as the Glenelg comes off the patent slip she will attempt towing off the Hyderabad aided by the Hiuemoa. — Mr Young,"the coach contractor, ran his first regular mail coach between New Plymouth and Hawera to-day by the mountain road. It is notified by proclamation in the Gazette that the boundaries of the borough of Nelson have been extended, all the details of the boundaries being given. Thomas Mackay Esq., of Nelson, has been gazetted a Justice of the Peace. It is reported here that Mr Barton M.H.R. will shortly remove to Auckland to commence practice there. —Mr E. Stafford, formerly of the Land Transfer Department, and late assistant Law Office of the Crown, leaves the Government service and joins the' firm of Hart and Buckley, the former gentleman retiring. It is estimated that the new line discovered for the Foxton railway by Mr Climie, the Engineer, will cost only about £6000 par mile, including permauent way, rolling stock, and stations. The previous estimates had been £10,000 per mile with steep gradiants.— The Wellington Land Tax valuators have commenced their duties. — The Anniversary Committee will apply to the Colonial Secretary to have the anniversary day proclaimed a public holiday.— The dry weather having arrived, the Corporation are taking active measures to prevent the waste of water.— The Anii-Chinese Committee have commenced calling in all subscription lists. Yesterday the Mayor received a telegram from the Secretary of the Seamen's Union, Sydney, asking him to stay further subscriptions, the strike having ended in their favor. —The Commission on Higher Education will commence sitting on the 15th February. The Rev. James Habens, Inspector-General of Schools, will be Secretary, and Mr Drake, of the Hansard staff, shorthand writer to the Commission. All the provincial districts will be visited, also Wanganui.— His Excellency again attended Henry Vat the Theatre last night.— Complaints are being made of the want of sufficient clerical assistance in theR.M. and District Courts.— Mr Gordon Allan called the attention of the R.M. to the practice of shipmasters refusing to pay counsel's fees out of seamen's money they held in hand.

The Government are about to offer a substantial reward for such evidence as will lead to the conviction of the persons who set fire to the Government Buildings at Blenheim in November 1876. Detective Brown has been there for several weeks making enquiries, and is said to have obtained important information.

Chbistchurch Saturday. At the Ashley County Council yesterday when speaking of the stoppage of the railway passes, one of the members said that he had refused to give up his and had travelled on it that very day. The chairman said it would be better to take the travelling expenses out of a special f nnd of the Council. The matter then dropped.— A man named Christopher Reynolds died suddenly yesterday.—The Bonnie Scotland, a Clydesdale horse, purchased at 100 guineas, the property of Mr James Wales of Kaiapoi Island, died on the passage cut to the colony on board the ship Norval. He was brother to the the celebrated stallion Pride of Scotland — It is proposed to found a Churchmen's Club here.- It is stated that the Hoskins Dramatic Club breaks up in about three weeks, after the close of the season at Napier. It is also said that Hoskina himself re-opens at the Christchurch Theatre on the 33rd March.

Napier, Saturday. It is rumored that Mr E. H. Bold, the Engineer for the Hawke's Bay and Waipawa counties, succeeds Mr Floyd as chief electrician on the East Coast.

A man named Alder, was run over yesterday by a dray. The horse bolted and Alder in attempting to jump off the dray got his legs eutangled in the reins and fell, and the wheel passed over his side and wrist. He lies in a precarious position] Col. Whitmore accompanied by an engineer is to-day taking soundings near his estate at Clive. It is proposed that a company should be formed to purchase the Grange estate from the township, to erect a breakwater and form a harbor.

The continued drought causes much apprehension in the farming districts.