INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 23, 27 January 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Press Association.] Invercargill, Monday. The Bank of Australasia has bought the land nnd premises in Tay-street, formerly occupied by the Bank of New Zealand, for £3,750. , James Colye, formerly of the Princess Hotel 1 aud a very old resident, was found dead yesterday in a hut on his run near -' New River Heads. The cause of death is BUpposed to hare been apoplexy. Bluff, Tuesday. The Rotomahaua arrived at 1 p.m. with >'- 300 tons of cargo and 225 passengers; She left Melbourne at 5.30 p.m. on the 20th, arrived at Hobarton at 4 a.m. on the 22nd; ' < sailed at 3 p.m. the same day, and arrived at -Milford Sound at 1 p.m. on the 25th, and left at 1 o'clock in the evening. Passengers for the Bluff :— Mr and Mrs T. C. Eraser, Mrs and Mrs Tongey, Mr and Mrs Nasmitb, Mrs Broomley, Mrs Chambers, and Maill, Mrs Finn and. infant, Dr. Jones, Messrs Thompson (2), Cunningham, Ingles, Lloyd, . Reid, Meritts, Robinson, Pittock, Quirk, and - Gin the steerage. For Dunedin : — Mr and Mrs Talk, Mr and Mrs Lollad, Mrs G-rayde, Mrs and Miss Stewart, Misses Strachan, - Caldwell, Hay, Mr and Mrs Kullen and child and servant, Miss Beleyne, Messrs Reenard, Grafcam, Ryan, Mclntosh, Criddle, Glyde, . England, Steel, Underwood, Moore, Millar, ' Rev. Matthews, Master Edwards, and 6 in the steerage. For Lyttelton : — Mr and Mrs Walton, Mrs Tugh and sons, Mrs Buchanan, Howard, Ebbern, White, Bayley, Messrs Clarke, Loughley, O'Brien, Cockle, Fooks (2), White (2), and 20 in the steerage. For Wellington :— Mr and Mrs Perry, Mr and Mra Warnock, Mr and Mrs Eversleigh, Mr and Mrs Anderson, Mr and Mrs Simpleton, Mrs Erancis, family, and servant, Mrs T. Robinson, Mrs Lush, Misses Geary, Smith, ~r Enml, Cate, Dr. Ralph, Messrs Mill, Gill, McGowan, Cox, Trevelyn, Black, Ghinn,and : Greenhill, and 21 in the steerage. For Napier :— Mr Sladen. For Auckland :— . Mr and Mrs Leacombe, Key. Long, Messrs Bryant, Forbes, rand 4 in the steerage. Wellington, Tuesday. The Wakatipu arrived at 115 a.m. from Sydney. On the morning of the 26th instant an infant on board named Charles Walter Hugh Brown died from the effects of ing.A shburton, Tuesday. A man named Gough was found dead a short distance from Cbertsey. Deceased and his wife had just. been discharged from gaol and they laid down on the grass to sleep. At the inquest a verdict was returned of " death from habitual drunkenness." ', < Christchurch, Tuesday. . The agents for Woods' and Deering's " reapers and binders protest in today's paper against the decision of the judges at yester- ■ day's 'contest. _, J The Lincolnshire delegates have arranged to go through the Ashburton district, commencing on Monday next. Among the donations in grain promised towards the Irish Famine Relief Fund one gentleman in the Atnberley district gives the proceeds of twenty acres. It is believed that if the Government notified that grain for this object would.be forwarded by rail free to Lyttelton the contributions from the Canterbury Provincial District would be immense. The settlers on the Peninsula are now in the midst of harvesting the crops of grass seed. The other day Messrs Saxton and j Williams of Robinson's Bay threshed twenty i bags off an acre and a quarter. Similar large yields are mentioned in other parts, and the crop of grass seed this season promises to be the largest and finest ever reaped in the district. „ . At a meeting of hotel-keepers held" last night for the purpose of discussing the ques- , tion of the Volunteers coming to the Review , at Easter, a general feeling was expressed "to support liberally the efforts of the Review Committee to render the affair a success. Details of hotel accommodation were fully discussed and ultimately a sub-committee was appointed to.interview the Review compiittee and consider the whole question.

A committee from the City Council has been appointed to wait on the Minister for Lands to urge upon the Government the claimsof Christchurch for increased reserves, and to ask for the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the matter. Charleston, Monday. Mr J. B. Fisher addressed his Buller constituents at the Theatre Royal, Charleston, on Saturday evening. The meeting was very large and his reception was cordial. Mr Fisher said there was a Conservative and a Liberal element in New Zealand politics as much as in those of the old country. However much the Opposition and their supporters might deprecate the change which had brought into power the conservatives of the country they had taken up the Liberal measures, but only to stutlify and defeat them. The Government's idea was that such draughts of liberalism as the country iusisted upon had better be administered through a conservative filter. He did not regret the accession to power of the present Government, for the country required departmental and Governmental reform, and the present Government were essentially men of detail. They hud dealt boldly, if not wisely, with the finance, and as administrators they were preferable to. Sir George ' Grey's surrottndiDgs. There was a remnant of the Liberal party still true to its principles and he hoped the utter routing they had suffered would enable them to form new and more effective combinations. Mr Fisher received an unaminous vote of thanks and confidence. Dunedin, Tuesday. At the City Court three milkmen were each fined 10s and costs for selling adulterated milk. Twelve samples were taken but the analyst only reported against these three. At the Dunedin School Committee election the Free Thought party mustered in force and turned the table on the Bible School Association and the religious party, their two candidates occupying first and third places on the poll. There was great diversity of opinion as to the value of the cumulative voting. Mr Stout thoroughly supported it, saying that though he was opposed to it at first, the more he saw of it the better he liked it. Several Committees in the suburbs intend bringing the compulsory clauses into operation.