Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1884.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 174, 23 July 1884, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1884.

been in active demand all the week, and holders are very firm ; all being bought up in the English market, and a message received from London is as follows : " Have sold shipment per Eome at from £6 ss. to £7 ; market unsettled :" this consignment was a medium to good sample, and the price realised is therefore a very satisfactory one. The reports from the Belgiaa and Dutch Hop grounds speak of a serious aphis blight, as many as 50 ' fly ' being found on a leaf." Sales here during the week have, besides smaller lots, included 752 hales at Is. ; at auction on Thursday a few bales were quitted at up to 10£d., but the market has hardened since then ; quotations generally are — Victorian Is., Tasmanian up to Is. in bond. Kent Is. 6d. duty paid, Bavarian Is. 6.d duty paid.

The result of the general elections winch took place yesterday is on the whole exceedingly satisfactory, a largfe number of members in every way superior to their predecessors having- been returned, and, generally sneaking 1 , there ic reason to believe that the House "will comprise men of a far better stamp than heretofore. Not only have many men who had taken a prominent part in politics in former times but were defeated in 1 881 been returned to the position from which they should nevsr have bees driven out. but there has been a happy weedingout of several whose services the country could well afford to dispenes with. We are glad to see such men as Sir Julius Vogel, Mr Ormond, Mr Ballanco, Mr Stoufc. and others returned, while there will be found few to regret the abEence of Mr Sheehan, Mr Fish, Mr M. W. Green and a few more whom we could name. It is scarcely possible to fortell the result from a party point of view, but the present Miaistry will unquestionably ha in a minority, as. judging 1 by the election speeches, only 34 out of 91 hava declared in favor of Major Atkinson. Of course there is a considerable proportion of men who have deolined to pledge themselves either one way or the other, but of these it is scarcely likely that any would prove supporters of the Atkinson Government as it is at present constituted. On the other hand the Grey party has sustainpd a serious lorb in the defeat of Mr Sheehan and Mr Seymour George. "We have not yet had time to thoroughly analyse the list, but that it shows a very marked improvement upon the late House is patent to all. Of the 91 members, less than balf held seats in the last Parliament. Eleven were re-elected without opposition, 30 were returned after a contest, and one, Mr Rolleston, was returned, for a new constituency, making a total of 42, the balance — forty-nine— being new members.