INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 215, 21 August 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) EEWARD OF MERIT (?). MATCH BETWEEN ENGLISH AND COLONIAL VOLUNTEERS. Wellington, August 21. The steamer Florida, from London, left Hobart at noon on Monday for Port Chalmers. She left London on June 30th, and brings 57 immigrants (equal to 54 adults) comprising 46 single women, 2 single men, and 2 families. The immigrants are distributed as follows :— Otago, 7 single women; Invercargill, 6 single women ; Wellington, 8 single women ; Marl* borough, 2 single women; Westland, 3 single women ; Hawke’s Bay, 2 single women; Auckland, 4 single women ; Christchurch, 7 single women; Taranaki, 1 married couple and family, 2 single men, 1 single woman ; Nelson, 1 married couple, 2 single women. Dunedin, August 21.

It is stated that Dr. Parry, who has served his sentence for the Kaitangata manslaughter case, lias received a Government appointment in Victoria, the Medical Association having bestired themselves in his interests. In Banco, in the case of Searl v. New Zealand Insurance Co., in which plaintiff, captain of a grain laden vessel from Oamaru had recovered heavy damages for the loss of his vessel, he was now nonsuited with costs, on the ground that he had deviated from his course. Christchurch, August 21. Captain Woler, of the City Guards, has received from England the score made by * team of the No. 2 company Prince Albert Light Infantry, in a match between that company and the City Guards. The English volunteers made 847 against the City Guards 820. The English captain suggests that the match should be an annual one.