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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 44, 22 February 1867, Page 2

The Otago Daily Times of the Bth inst. says the imports into this Province during the past week have included upwards of one hundred tons of rice, a very large quantity compared with the average importation of the same article of consumption. This increase is, of course, due to tbe presence of the considerable number of Chinese who have recently arrived in the Province, and who prefer their native diet to the wholesome oatmeal or wheaten flour which the soil of the Province cau provide for them. As there is an import duty of £2 per ton upon rice, the Chinese have at least the merit of being to some extent contributors to the revenue of the country. Mr. Ogilvie, of the firm of Brassey and Co., who was expected by the Auckland from Sydney, has written, we (Herald) believe, to say that business has called him away to Melbourne, but that he may be expected to visit Auckland from Victoria in the course of a few weeks. Mr. Reeves, partner of Mr. Crosbie Ward in the proprietorship of the Lyttelton Times, has (according to the New Zealand Advertiser) accepted the invitation of a number of tlie electors of Avon to allow himself to be put in nomination for a seat in the General Assembly shortly to be vacated by Mr. Ward, in consequence of his returning home as agent for the Province of Canterbury in England. There are three candidates for the Otago Superintendency in the field, namely Mr. Mac Andrew, Mr. Dick, and Mr. Grant. The contest lies between the two former. The Daily Times is raking up the past history of Mr. Mac Andrew, and publishing official documents ; and he declares that he has been the victim of a conspiracy. Peter George Harris, Esq., the wellknown accountant and average-stater of Adelaide, is dead. He met with a severe accident a short time ago, from the effects of which he could;not recover.