INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 167, 26 June 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.] THE GOVERNOR’S LEVEE. REES V. JOHNSON. WASON OPPOSES SIR JULIUS VOGEL. ELECTION MATTERS. AUCKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. . Wellington, June 26. The Governor will hold a levee at Government House on Saturday, in honor of Her Majesty’s birthday. The following cable from Foo Chow was received by Messrs. Johnston and Co.: — “ The steamer Tamsin left Foo Chow for Wellington direct on the 24th instant with a cargo of new season’s tea for all New Zealand ports. Thomas Mason announces he will seek reelection for the Hutt.

In the Supreme Court in banco the case of Rees and another v. Johnson was argued, and judgment reversed. The Government have promised Mr. Locke £lOO for the late Mr. Downes’ family; also to have a polling place at Patutahi, to have sittings of the R.M. Court at Ormond, and to nave the Motu block examined with a view of ascertaining its suitability for settlement. Ashburton, June 25. The nomination of candidates for the vacant Ashburton seat took place to-day. Mr. J. C. Wason and Sir Julius Vogel were nominated. Sir Julius Vogel’s proposer said that though that gentleman, acting under the advice of his committee and friends in Ashburton, in whose hands he had placed his candidature, had decided not to contest Ashburton at the general election, he hoped the meeting would show that they approved of the action of Vogel’s supporters in bringing him forward. The show of hands resulted as follows : —Vogel, 28 ; Wason, 16. A poll was demanded for Wason. Oamaru, June 26. Mr. Duncan Sutherland, is announced as a candidate for Waitaki, and Mr. Thomas Proctor, the present Mayor, for Oamaru, in opposition respectively to Messrs. Duncan and Shrimiski, the present members. Napier, June 26. A cattle-driver, named Desmond, will contest the Hawke’s Bay seat on the ultra radical ticket, favoring land nationalization without compensation. Thames, June 26. Messrs. Speight and Fraser are announced as candidates for the Thames. Mr. Speight say he stands absolutely free from all existing parties and views. No other candidates are announced. Auckland, June 26. At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Nathan, President, regretted he was unable to congratulate the members on a successful year, as the reflex action of Southern depression had affected them, and the demand for kauri gum had decreased. There was also a glut of Baltie and American timber in Australia. He eulogised the San Francisco mail service as the best they ever had, and condemned any attempt to suppress it. He condemned the alteration in the bankruptcy laws. Mr. Reid was elected President for the ensuing year. Dr. Pearson is announced as a candidate for Franklin North. The creditors in the estate of Messrs. Moore and Townsend, wine and spirit merchants, it was resolved that as the insolvents have recklessly squandered their estate, and given fraudulent preference to friends, the Official Assignee be requested to enforce the penal clauses of the Insolvency Act. Suspicious circumstancial facts implicating several persons have come to light in connection with the attempted incendiarism at the Presbyterian schoolroom in Symonds Street. Michael Karby is in custody on suspicion. The dwelling-house of David Maxwell, four miles from Mercer, was destroyed by fire through a lighted candle being left in the house. Insured in the Colonial office for £62. There are reasons for believing that the human skeleton found at the Three Kings is not that of an European. There was once a large Maori settlement on tlie spot where the discovery was made, and the remains are supposed to be those of a Native. Christchurch, June 26. Mr. O’Callaghan is announced for Lincoln, and Messrs. Oliver and Wansey for Stanmore. J. P. Jamieson is likely to stand for the same district, and a requisition is being signed to Mr. Ruddenklau also to stand for it, to which, it is understood, he will accede. Mr. Joy nt’s address to the South Christchurch electors agrees in the main with Sir Julius Vogel. No public reception was given to the representative football team.