INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 23, 26 January 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Thursday. The general entries for the February Kace Meeting will close at the Empire Hotel on Monday, the 29th instant. The Outrigger Race did not come off today, bat wilt probably this week, as the Titnara crew have accepted a challenge to row for £30, given by the Black Diamond crew, and will remain a few days longer. Friday. Mr O'Shea reports produce prices as follows:—Flour, old, £16 to £16 10s; Adelaide, £17 10s to £13 10s; oats, 3s to 3s 3d for old; bran, Is; wheat, willing none, chick 4s ; pollard, £7 10s to £8; maize, 4s 9d to is 6d; Hams, B£d to 9d; bacon, 6d to 8d; cheese, 7£d to B£d; potatoes £5 to £6. Donedin, Thursday. Daring the pait two days the winds passed over Diinedin have been unusnally fierce and destructive, breaking branches of trees and destroying fruit. The weather at present is very changeable. The Directors of the New Zealand and Australasian Land Company have now determined to cut up several of their fine stations- into suitable sized farms, which will be let somewhat after the Home principle. The' Company's representatives Jiere are now maturing the .scheme, and will shortly advertise the farms. The prizes for the Dunedin and Port Chalmers Regatta will amount to about £ 1 60. A novel feature, in the, programme is a ships' lifeboat race. The recently appointed committee for the Duuedin Hospital visited that institution .'-.. yesterday.- They "found that none of the wards were provided with lavatory, baths, or closets; there was only one lavatory and one "i bath on the premises, the bath being situated near the. kitchen. Beneath the- flooring of -■ 7 :■:', one of the warda, and also a considerable portion of the building,' mud and other offensive •■„ /fmStter,4» a : depth rof two or three feet, had f iwainiulatedfi offensive odours of close t3

penetrated a- considerable distance. The Committee kiye determined to take the necessary steps for at bnce effecting requisite alterations. _. \ • .; • ; • : Friday. ,Mr Bradshaw reports stocks as follows:-— ofcNew Zealand} £1 9 4s 6d; Colonial Bank, £f 15s 9d; National "Bank of New Zealand, £3 7s ; National Insurance Company, £ I 5s 6d; Standard Insurance Company, 13s 9dL • " i / Balclutka, Friday. The correspondence between Mr Macan-. drew. Sir G. Grey, and the president of the Otago convention is published in the Ctittka Leader to-day, showing that in consequence of the illness of Sir G. Grey the mission to England must be postponed. The Leader suggests that the money collected to defray the expenses of the delegates should now be expended in trying the question of the legality of the Abolition Act in a Court of law, and urges that this would be a popular mode of disposing of the funds; " ; Auckland, Thursday. A large._number of natives/ delated to leading adherents of the Maori Jting, have migrated to beyond ,th,e confiscated boundary, where they propose-to settle. jr -Mr Shera, former, partner in a large soft good finn~(M'Artbur Shera, and Co.), applied to the Supreme Court for a mandamus to restrain the new firm from trading .until the co-partnership accounts were determined on. Strong affidavits were filed on both sides, and arguments are to be heard to-morrow. • The Star "of the South hai arrived from Fiji, arid- brings the following items of news:— The schooner Sacramento, has been wrecked. — The reported escape of the Kaikoto prisoners from Suva has blseu " confirmed. The men were engaged on public works, in charge of _some local engineers and native guards.; They suddenly threw down their tools and absconded without leave or license. About 34 of them were shot by the sentries, and recaptured, but a great number escaped to the mountains. Numbers were traced and shot down, but the main body have not yet been overtaken.— The Hon Auditor-General is appointed Colonial Secretary and'. W. M'Gregor, M-D., to act as a Receiver-General. —The sea-wall and roadway round the island are progressing satisfactorily. The work is now carried more than half way round the Bay of Vagarde.— The ' contract with, the Fiji Government to.; employ the Star of the South between the various islands has expired, and is not likely to be renewed. Business in i Le vuka -is : very dull. A large number of , persons hare left for Sydney. . \