INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXII, Issue 161, 10 July 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(nNTTRn PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNK, July 0. There lm been oontiidorahlß speculation m oil shares ainoo it came to light that tlifi hora of the South Pacific Petroleum Works had to ha plugged. Wellington, July 0. The Tongaiiro tnnk 3,B:">l'i pieces beef weighing iM9,'210 lha, 907 carcases of mutton weighing '10,901 His; II bars of ailvev \ ahied at £2,! M" »; kauri gum 2,">ir> cases : • 1 10 cases tinned mullet from Kaiapoi. j The Arawa takes from Wellington and Lyttleton for (.melon, .'I,OOO carcasos of frozen mutton. OHRiSTfrruiMUi, .Tnly 0. The Mayor called a meeting today to consider the r^iejtion of relief for sufferers hy the Tarawera eruptions. The only person present was the Dean of Christchnrch. There appears to lift a general impress'on that loose cash is scarce here just now, and that there have been a good many calls upon the purses of the charitable. Hokitika, July 0. The Ross United Company has washed up f.he first set, equal to about nineenbio yards, for four ounces two pennyweights, The cost of getting this is estimated at thirty shillings. The gold is worth £3 16s per ounce.