INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 282, 5 December 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PBESS AGENOT.I ■»* ,c^ Auckland, Thursday. Mr M'Farlane, M.H.R., addressed the Waitemata constituents last night. He attacked the financial and native land policy of the Government, and called their proposals " miserable." He said they were a wretched Ministry, and that if the last Government were land jobbers the present were doubly land jobbers. He defended the Piako Swamp purchase and said that Mr Macandrew was getting all the money while Sir G. Grey was talking about the rights of the human race Mr M'Farlane received a vote of thanks At a meeting of the Presbytery it' was decided to appoint a committee to meet Chiuiquy, and call a public meeting after he lands. The Provincial Grand Lodge of the English Constitution last evening re-elected all the officers, and voted a salary to the Secretary. A vessel has been discovered on fire in the Frith of the Thames, supposed to be the bngantino Oamaru. She was built for the timber trade, and loft Auckland on Nov. 19th to load at the Hauraki mills with timber for Lyttelton. She took in 125,000 feet timber She is owned at the Thames and is worth about £3,000. She was iusured with the New Zealand Company for £1100 and also in the South British.

T , . La;tefc It 13 reported that the burning ship iriShe J'rilh of Thames proves to be a false alarm. The Naval Brigade went out to the scene and found it was a fire on Kauri Point. Isvkrc/rgill, Thursday. A committee has been formed io collect . subscriptions from Scotchmen in Southland in aid of the shareholders who have been ruined by the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank. CiiKisTCHtmiC!l, Thursday. At a temperance meeting held last night, at which Dr Loseby of Dunedin was giving a lecture on Gocd Teraplarism, ihe Rev Mr , Smiiiley.the YVesleynn Minister of Sydenhnm, stated that there was oue nnsty drinking shop in that borough, which the ladies intended to shut up after the style of their "brave American sisters." The statement was received with loud cheers— The Selection Committee appointed to chose the fitteuh to represent Canterbury in the rifle match with Olngo last evening made the final selection as follows :-Appleby, Barnes, Bubbley, Chapman, Eeberg, Fox, Gmftteraobj K. Kill, Hunter, Manning, Marshall^ Parker, Pavitt Warner, Woorthotwe. The representatives leave here on Tuesday. >™ n , Wbtxixrtox, Thursday. Ihe first sale of the Wuimate Plains will not take place till the middle of March next About 10,000 acres, the survey of which is almost finally completed, and the greater part h:iß been finished some time ngo, will be put into the market, but the Government have not yet settled the exact locality in which the sale shall take place. The Patea people have asked the Government to order that the sale shall take place on the laud itself, and by a Government auctioneer or commissioner. Ministers have abandoned lite idea of a training ship for this port, the training- ship at Auckland, and reformatory schools being considered sufficient for the present requirements, The Chief Justice decided a case to day, regarding a female being in a bar after eleven at night. It was pleaded that the girl remained in the bar voluutarily, but the Chief Justice said that the publican was re- ' sponsible for what took place in his house, and affirmed the judgment of the Court below. The Government have flually settled that Inspector James of Hokitika will take charge of the Wellington police in the middle of January. The Government have determined that New Zealand shall be thoroughly represented at the forthcoming Exhibition at Sydney, aud an Exhibition Commissioner will be sent to Sydney to represent this colony. The New Zealand public will be asked to send exhibits. With respect to the statement that the Hon. Mr Sheehan was going to resign his portfolio as Minister of Justice, the matter has not yet come before the Cabinet, but it is understood that he is anxious to be relioved of the oflioe In order to be free to give greater attendance to the affairs of the Native Department. The area of reclaimed land which the Government have determined to sell extends from the Government Buildings to St. George's Hall. The land will be sold with a frontage to Laujbtan Quay only, aud with a depth which has not yet been determined upon. The opinion of the Attorney-General having been requested as to the validity or otherwise of the late Mayoral election, he says that as regards the first and principal point, the members of the Constabulary have a right to vote at municipal elections. Mr Gilligan's Taueru' estate in the Wairarapa has been sold for £1 3,000. There are 2818 acres of laud, 3000 sheep, and a few horses. Mr Hadfield of Canterbury is the purchaser. A circular letter has been issued from the Immigration office with regard to the resumption of foreign immigration under certain conditions. Foreigners must be nominated by their friends in tho colony, and present themselves at the AgentGeneral's offlee in Loudon, and he will provide them with passages from Plymouth provided they pass the necessary medical 'examination, and find their own way on board. They must also sign an undertaking that they will conform to all the regulations in force on board ship during the voyage. Foreigners who are nomiuated and find their way to the colony as ordinary passengers, without coming through the Agent-General's office department may have rheir passage money refunded. Due notice, however, must be given to the local immigration-office at the port at which the foreign immig/auts are to arrive, and they will be required;. 'io pass a medical officer appointed for the-fnspectum of immigrants arriving in the colony;';. Great care is to be exercised as to the eligibility of immigrants before they are certified to. Dunedin, Thursday. ihe Government are about to call for tenders for the branch, railway to Shag Point. . . .' i f ... The elders of the Knox Church have resolved not to observe the semi-annual 1 resbyterian fast day on the 19th, inst. v .; . I'ho Postmaster-General arrived at Dunedin yesterday, having completed his official visit to the country districts.— The harvest on the Taieri Plain this year promises to be abundant-One farm of 105 acres on the Plains has been sold for £3i50.