INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 38, 13 February 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Okkss agency.]

Wellington, Thursday. In another day or two a new rice mill, for cleaning and dressing rice, will be set at work by Mr Crease, who already prepares nee on a large scale. Machinery for the manufacture of mustard on a large scale is also under way. The rice mill U said to be the nrst opened in the colony M f V? £ n ™ r9t ,°° d thafc Mr J ' Macka y tak es * S" £■ Cla £ ke s P lace as Under-Secretary for Native affairs.

Dr Hector has received notice that Auckland and the North will contribute largely in produce to the Sydney Exhibition, but that wool must come from places further south, as the best grown up there has found its way out of the colony. " Both evening papers in commenting upon the case of the lad Taylor, drowned from on board the Easterhill, call upon the Government in the interest of justice to have a strict enquiry made into the whole affair.

The Hutt County Council decided not to proceed further with their attempt to secure 20 per cent, of the proceeds of the sale of the reclaimed land.

An audacious robbery was committed at an Hotel, £50 being taken from a bed-room.

Captain Sellars, of the Zcalandin, who was cast iis damages in the action brought by I'liiv, whose boy was injured from a rocket fired from the Zcalandto, appealed, but to-day Iho appeal was dismissed with cost?. Mr .Justice Richmond In* rertppiiired in Court after his late Ulucx;. Mr T. WakoJin. ron-ntiv :i schoolmaster at j Jreyttiwn, complains of unfair usii.-ige at (ho hands of thn Inspector of the Education Hoard, and invokes the assistance of his fellow masters to have his care fa!rly c-x---aniined. He urges there should ho some tribunal to appeal to if an Inspector is unqualified, incompetent, and unworthy, in order that a beneficial check should be exercised upon Inspectors, f lf s grievance is that beins: a master of ten years standing, and seven yeais master of Grey town ho has been dismissed without enquiry being granted him. Out of 53 candidates who raised the Junior Civil Examination, the following Nelsom'ans came out in the order of" merit sot opposite their names :— J. M'lvor 2, Bullard 4, Hunt 5, Hnrllropii, Greenfields) Thompson 11, Allen 1:2, Evans 13, Gimlstoue 14, Lowe lf>, Burnett \{>, Honlt 17, Foy 20, Rout 21, Emerson 24, Kr-lling :!0, Deck : :',('. ', Vickerman 3ii, ilunny. For the Senior, out of tlic total who passed, the following arc from Xeison :— Andiew 4, Yickernian S, Moynihan In, Rout. A Royal Commission has been appointed to enquire into the Bay Islands Electoral Roll case. Mr Boyce, M.11.R , will report upon the matter. Sailed— Wellington for Nelsou at :i p.m. Passengers : Superintendent Atchcsou. Miss Atcheson, Sergt. Eraser, Mrs Marsh, Messrs Brownlee, Worker, and Peacock, Miss Gardiner, Mrs Carkcek, Miss Galloway, and 7 in the steerage. Lyttkltox, Wednesday night. Arrived : Arawata, with Governor and suite from Wellington. Wakatipu from Port Chalmers. The purser states that a large ship, believed to be the Fiji, bound to Port Chalmers was passed this morning by the steamer. Captain Joss, of the schooner Onward, reports that the wreck of the Southminster has parted amidships, the mainmast is standing and he could see part of the poop deck out of water, and some of the frame of the forepart. Captain Donovan, of the Josephine, reports terrific weather off Cape Palliser on the 9th inst., in which a part of the schooner's bulwarks was smashed, and at ten a.m. next day a sea broke aboard that filled the forecastle and cabin, and washed away the fore scuttle and stove in the caboose. The vessel almost foundering.