INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 210, 3 September 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Friday. The members of the Ministry intend taking a brief holiday after the labors of the session. Major Atkinson leaves for Taranaki to-night, and Messrs Rolleston, Whitaker, and Dick go South to-morrow-Intimation has been received from Melbourne that one-sixth more space than was originally allotted bas at the request of the Executive Commissioner, Dr Hector, been given by the Melbourne Exhibition Commissioners for the extension of the New Zealand Court at the Melbourne Exhibition. Arrived— Anue Melhuish, barque, from Newcastle. On the 26th August a passenger named Thomas Synan jumped overboard and wa3 drowned. Every endeavor was make to rescue him but unsuccessfully. Cjiristchdkou, Friday. The "fifteen gem puzzle" has at last been put to a satisfactory use. The gaoler at Lyttelton has given it to the Maori prisoners and it keeps them quiet. At a meeting of railway employees a telegram was read from the Minister of Public Works to the effect that the Government in the first place did not intend to apply ttie ten per cent, reduction to the Amberley men, but that they had some time ago issued instructions to the Commissioner io assimilate the rates of pay to those of outside workmen. Through a break in the telegraph these measures could not be arranged in time, and the ten per. cent, was therefore taken off as a temporary measure to make up for it. As no notice was given,

the Government would not insist on this reduction for the present but a revised scale of wages would be issued. The meeting determined to do nothing more in the way of a strike until they had received the scale of wages; It is proposed to form a Sickness and Accident Mutual Assurance Association for New Zealand, the head office to be in Christchurch. Messrs L. E. Nathau, George King, and E. Wilkin have consented to act as trustees, and Mr W. Charters has been elected manager. Judge Johnston leaves for Wellington today to swear in the Chief Justice as the Officer administrating the Government. A boy named Wallace, only sixteen years of age, has been admitted to the hospital in a comatose condition from drinking the greater portion of a bottle of brandy. lie is lyiugin a very precarious condition. OAkAKU, Friday. j An accident happened to the express train [ from the north to-^ay on account of a horse being on the line. 'The cow catcher caught the animal but did not throw it off and thi engine left the metals, requiring an hour and a half to replace it. iNVEitcAitGir-r,, Friday. Mr McCaughan is to be eutertained at a banquet at Winton by a porlion of his conBtituenta in recognition of his services re the Forest Hill tramway. Brother Caldwell of Dunedin opens a Mark Masons Lodge here next week. Another reef has been struck a mile west of Port Lougwood. Mr J. Jf. Joyce, the ex-member for Wallace, has received a requisition to stand for Waikaia. Mr H. Feldwick, the late member for Invercargill, wa3 also communicated witb, but declined.