INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 99, 26 April 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[>RKBB AOENOT.] Wellington-, Saturday. Tlio cargo shipped here per Stad Haarlem for London consisted of 805 bales or 275,099 lbs of wool, valued at £14,478, and 4.18 packages of sundries valued at £2 309 Total value, £16,787. The total quantity and value of wool shipped from this port to London during the preaeut season amounts to 32,914 packages containing over eleven million pouuds, valued at £593,462. The Pleiades has now on board about 1400 bales of wool, 1100 packages of tallow, UO cases of preserved meat, 700 sacks of wheat, and a lot of sundries. She is expected to 3ail early next month Tenders for the erection of the new Supreme Court building will shortly be called for. The Insurance Companies intend giving the Fire Brigades further necuniary assistance. The Wellington Volunteer Fire Brigade have imported a fire suit which will enable aDy fireman to enter a building in a state of smoke or combustion. An air pipe aad life line are attached to it. Mr Mausford, R.M., has been seriously indisposed for the last few days. The Colonial Insurance Company held its first aunual meeting yesterday afternoon. The report shows that the profit of the Company during the last nine months was £6,719. The report was considered satisfactory and was adopted. It is stated that the Government contemplate introducing a Bill next session to amend the Law Practitioners Act. It is expected that the Bill will probably prevent solicitors appearing in Court to conduct cases unless they have passed barristers' examinations. The Commissioners appointed under the Appeals Act of last session will not finish their labors for a considerable time yet, and owing to difficulties arising in consequence of the Commissioners daving no authority to consolidate the law it is probable that Parment will be asked to grant further powers. A deputation yesterday waited on Mr Macandrew with a view to obtaining a site for a Choral Hall. Mr Macandrew advised the deputation to communicate with the military authorities, as it was contemplated to grant a site for a drill shed, and he thought both objects might be combined. Yesterday the Commission on Higher Education examined Mr Cox, Assistant Geologist, on matters relating to the establishment of a School of Mines, and in regard to technical education. It is feared that the illness of Mr G. S. Cooper has taken the form of typhoid fever. The Italians who gashed a fellow countryman with a razor have been arrested. A Masterton correspondent of the N. Z. Times reiterates the statement that Te Whiti has written to certain Wairarapa chiefs asking them to be prepared as the day of blood has arrived, and he adds that he could supply the names of those who received the letters, they having made no secret of it at the time. Lyttelton, Saturday. Arrived: Coromandel, from Glasgow. A gale was encountered on March 2 1st, and an A.B. named Frank M'Donald, and an apprentice named Alfred Davis were washed overboard. The storm was too severe to admit of any attempt to rescue them. Arrived: ship G. B. S. chartered by Shaw and Savill, 133 days from London, and 89 from Lisbon. She lost her fore and main masts in a gale whea crossing the Bay of Biscay and repaired at Lisbon. She jettisoned part of her cargo.