INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 209, 2 September 1881, Page 2

INTER COLONIAL.

ti, to- ti- • Stdhet . Thursday. The Wakatipu Bailed for Wellington yeaterday afternoon, and the Albion for Russsll this morning. f {V be L !? iB o tiY^ Aig , ttab] y l*«t night, the debate on Mr Copeland's motion, censurinz the Government for tbi manner in which the quarantine regulations bava been enforced was resumed, but, after some discussion, it

wasnegatived oh a division of 63 to 11. ■The latest bulletin from the Quarantine I states that Clement Lindsay, one of the patients confined on board the hospital ship JJ'araday died last night. All the rest on board are doing well. Iv the infected enclosure Ellen Lindsay and Ally Trevoe are delirious, but the others are progressing favorably. The nf-w preserver with conserve salt was tried at Grafion to-day, with great success. It is stated that this method will probably corue into general use. At auction to-day, the beßt lines of wheat realised from 5s 7£d to 5i lid per bushel. Friday. A fresh case oi Bmall-pok is reported, the sufferer being a man named Elliott, at Newtown. In the Legislative Assembly last night, during the discussion on the Ring Barking of Timber Bill, iir McElhone said he would advise the people who were deprived of the public lands to shoot down like dogs those who kept them from their just estates, and he would find the money for it.