INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[>RKBS AQENOr.] Wellington, Monday night. The pallisading round Mount Cook barracks is completed, &ud there is now little chance of the Maoris escaping. Mr Clapcott succeeds Cbas. McMurdo in the Government insurance department. Mr J. E. Brown left for Christchurch today, without pairing for either side. The wife of Mr Montgomery, M.H.R., is dead. A meeting of the Tramway Company this afternoon amended clause 24 of the regulations which limits the borrowing powers of the company, to an amount equal to onethird of the paid-up capital. The chairman Mid there was every reason to be satisfied with the returns, and he would gladly invest more money in the undertaking. Orders have been sent to the Avonside Company, Bristol, for a number more Fairlie locomotive engines, owing to the satisfactory results giTen by those tried already. The position of parties in Parliament is understood: to be that two members are absent, and two will not vote. The utmost the Gorernment can count upon is 36, and the Opposition 48. It is understood that if the Gorernment is defeated, Sir G. Grey will prow hard for a dissolution. Mr Howe ▼otae against the Government. The New Zealander says :— « We are as■ared on perfectly reliable authority that cablegrams hare been received from the Agent-General in Loadon within the last day or two, stating that rumors of the Maori disaffection had reached there, and that they hare had a rery disquieting influence in monetary circles." A report from Allen, the prospector at Wairarapa says that he felt assured there would be no difficulty in making £i per day if provisions could be obtained without travelling to Masterton. A number of other parties are oat on the eastern side of the Valley, and one has found a reef containing antimony and copper, also malachite. A report is current that aii the Ministers moapt Sir G. Grey declare that if a majority Of the House is against them, and the Governor refuses a dissolution, they will adopt the usual constitutional course and zeugn, but that the Premier has determined in the interests of the people of New Zealand not to abandon office until dismissed by the Oorernor. The working men of the city are organising • maw meeting to protest against any further immigration by the Gorerament.

CiiBiSTCHUKCii, Monday. A boy named O'Connor fell overboard from the barque Dochraon on the passage from Glasgow, and was drowned. A farmer named Gordon is supposed to have been lost in the snowstorm on Saturday week near Ashburton. Ue has not been traced since. The landlord of the Albion Hotel has been fined £10 for permitting gambling in his j house.